Marcus has shot under 40% for 6 straight games. Anyone want to make any predictions on when the next game he shoots above 50% will be?
Even for Smart this stretch has been real bad. hes getting 0 seperation going to the rim and is forced to strictly take bad shots which he has very little trouble convincing himself to do.
He is due for a randomly efficient game tho. Id expect one in the next week.
Is this stretch really bad for Smart? He's still slightly above his shooting percentages from last year. He's shot above 50% once in the past 13 games.
I love what he brings defensively and with his intangibles... but I also think him shooting 4-14 tonight (2-8 from three) counter a lot of those positives.
It's fine though. He should keep shooting. Hopefully eventually something will click for him and all these reps will have been worth it.
Agree with that. Especially when it's a game like this where nobody can get stops it pretty much renders his play style useless. I will wait for the long list of hatred that will follow this post , but I still maintain that we should have taken Randle or LaVine in 2014. Smart is horribly inefficient player who's impact as a ball of energy and defense is often counteracted by his inability to be any sort of threat offensively. He'll always be a 6th man or key bench player, but never the starter or All-star that you paint him out to be. Can't believe people on here even said recently that he should be starting over IT.
I think everyone understands thomas is better than him, but Isaiah does have a tendency to let the offense stagnate and just run a ton of pick and roll and get his own. Smart initiates the offense and does I think a better job getting everyone involved with it.
Also, wed been letting a bunch of teams get crazy hot at the beginning of games and a reasonable hypothesis was that ITs lack of size/defense was allowing gaurds to get really comfortable etc.
The idea was you bring in Marcus he makes the other team uncomfortable and you establish your defense, then in comes Isaiah and he plays big time starter minutes. Marcus just sets the tone for you.
I dont agree with the idea (like 90% of people) but the I think the logic made more sense than just thinking Marcus Smart is better than a dude putting up 26 and 6.