Smart with a league average 3 point shot is a top 10 SG in the league.
This has been an underrated narrative this year, mainly because of our struggles. Smart was a plus contributor when he was maybe the worst shooter in the league. As an average shooter he's not far from All-Star level value.
I love Jaylen but I really hope he stays on the bench, Smart is just too useful alongside Kyrie.
Brown seems quite comfortable coming off the bench; win win.
I was just looking at Brown's numbers - he's gotten better every month and his overall per-36 is now almost identical to last year's. The important exception is that he's taking fewer threes and shooting a lower percentage but shooting nearly 40% last year was probably the fluke there. He's doing really well in his bench role.
It will be interesting to find out about his 3pt%. Over 15 games in January he shot 42% from 3. If the lower %age in earlier months was due to injury and finding his role (he tried way more unassisted 3s than usual in November) he might just settle in around 40%.
Brown has been shooting at 39.4 % over the last 26 games from 3. I see his 20 game poor shooting as a slump and the 40% from three is the real outside shooter Brown is as he did it at 40% all last year and during the playoffs. His last 3 months of his rookie year he shot threes at over 37%.
A 40% three point shooter is what Brown is.
And he is becoming a much better free throw shooter this year too. He shot 70% at the FT line in December and almost 74% in January. That's while shooting
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