Smart with 9 turnovers in game 3

[Ilikesports17]

Horrible

He is also missing 3s left and right...especially when open

If Celts draft Fultz.. im leaning towards keeping Rozier and trading Smart.

Trade him to a western conference team  though

Do you do research before posting?

Smart has been downright atrocious for most of the last two games. However, his three point shooting has actually significantly raised in the playoffs from 28% in the season to 35% in the playoffs.

Now that's still not great, but it's far from how you're characterizing it. For reference, IT is shooting just 27% from 3 in the playoffs so far.

  Try last 3 games, he was so bad in the first game, he took himself out!

He did not, from what I read, take himself out from the game due to his shooting.  Lets keep the facts straight so as to remove ambiguity.

Marcus was arguably our best player for 3 quarters in game 1. He was a huge part of the comeback and when on Beal or Wall he did a terrific job. Then a flurry of mistakes at the start of the 4th and he took himself out. I believe it was 2 turnovers and 2 fouls.

Since then hes been uncharacteristically bad.

Game 4 might be the worst game Ive ever seen him play. However, Marcus has never been afraid of the moment. He has performed terrifically in the playoffs the past two years and has had several very good games this year already.

Im not sure whats wrong right now. THat said, his shooting HAS been part of the problem.

Teams dont respect him at all. They are daring Marcus to shoot and when hes being left as open as he is, he simply has to do better. I dont care if he is in the mid-thirties. With the open shots hes getting hes got to be in the 40s.

I love Marcus and even with that trash jumper hes a valuable piece, but there is no excuse to not be able to shoot a high percentage on wide open catch and shoot threes. Absolutely must be improved.

Im still in the trade AB camp. Marcus has been a let down in the playoffs, and AB has had some brilliant games, but Bradleys been maddeningly inconsistent with brilliant games mixed in among awful ones.

Bradley, Smart and Crowder all need to be consistently better for the rest of the playoffs.

When those three guys are balling we are really tough to beat. If AB and Crowder are bricking jumpers and Marcus is imploding, we are really easy to beat. I think Smart and Bradley will step up. Not as confident in Crowder.

[GreenWarrior]

when we lose it's always smart that gets pointed out, yet there's at least a 9-10 man rotation here.

And when we win , everybody goes crazy over one Marcus Smart play where he gets a rebound and makes him seem like he scored 30 points and got 10 rebounds and 8 assists

when in reality he was 1-7 , and all those 7 shots were threes.

and with all the praise stevens gets for making this young team a 50 win playoff team you'd think he'd realize what smart can & can't do and be able to encourage him to take it to basket instead of taking shots he can't make yet... and may never be able to.

[GreenWarrior]

It is definitely strange that a guard whose only redeeming quality is that he's "built for the playoffs" is playing so badly in the playoffs.

in the past playoffs there has been times where the team was playing like crap and had no effort or seemingly no desire to even be there and smart was the only guy playing out there and not giving up.

ever since that bulls game where he chucked the finger to the fan he definitely seems to not be in the right state of mind and has been one of our worst players, easily.

really I get the hate from the non-smart supporters. if you're drafting a player in the top 10 imo he should be a player that has the potential to be an all star - a guy that has the numbers.

imo smart will never have the numbers consistently and I've felt that way since before we drafted him. which imo was the problem from the start, why he was ranked so high is beyond me. I liken him to darko milicic in ways. he was actually a decent player not an all star but could have been a decent rotation player but he was ranked so [dang] high that he was never going to live up to that.

so really the issues with smart has to do with where he was drafted. if he was drafted at pick 32 every celtic fan would be saying he was the steal of the draft... even the haters but they won't admit that now.

[Smitty77]

Olynyk still had a worse PER for the game:-))))

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[Smitty77]

I still think Brad is making a huge mistake by not playing through Al and Marcus in the post.  We are not going to beat Washington on the road by swinging around the perimeter or dribble hand-offs for 3s.

Marcus was posted up several times and got his shot sent packing on several occasions.  Posting Marcus usually works, but the Wizards are long and he simply has trouble posting the 6'8" Porter when he is ONLY 6'3"!!!!

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[Smitty77]

This was the first time I've seen Smart come apart because of the physical play of a game. Normally he embraces it.

Don't forget Marcus is still a young player, the third game of this playoff between the C's and the Wizards was a physical extreme. The Wizards set a physical tone that the refs weren't quite ready for.

Yep...he looked stressed out.

I in NO WAY think that Smart is stressed DUE to the physical play of the Wizards!!!  He is stressed because he had a 15.00 PER in the first series and was playing GREAT D, but he currently has an 8.00 PER in this series.  He is STRESSED because of self-imposed pressure because he KNOWS that he CAN play BETTER!!!

Smart LOVES physical basketball!!!!

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