grindtime22 wrote:Marcus Smart is still Marcus Smart. Same crap different due. He is a great defender and travesty shooting the ball. Then, he becomes an all star player the last 5 minutes of every game. It is predictable at this point. Called it last game, called it the game before that, called it today. It is what it is at this point.
He is going to shoot. If he goes 1-3 to start the game, everything will be fine. He will play more controlled. He won't be great shooting, but he won't make you want to puke. If he makes his first 2, he is going to fire away. If he misses his first 3, he is going to chunk like he is Steph Curry. It is perplexing, but it isn't going to change unfortunately.
He turns into Big Shot Bob every last five minutes. It's crazy.
This is where Hayward going down hurts the most. With Gordon as the secondary ball handler, you can slide Marcus to the corner where he's actually been adequate in his career. Because Marcus has those duties in end of game lineups now it changes the spacing and puts him in position for shots that would likely otherwise be going to Hayward.
The reckless abandon with which he shoots the ball is the same tenacity that allows him to defend much larger players, grab rebounds over them, and rip the ball out of their hands with the grip strength of a gator's jaws. It's a give and take.
. My fault.
