Smart played a very ugly game, he didn't approach the game to win it. His game was entirely forced and killed the overall ball movement. I'd of liked to see Rozier play the point without Smart on the floor.
Celtics will need to play more as a team and continue to pass the ball for the open shot. Everything was pretty much bad, bad shot selection, bad passing, bad screen setting or lack thereof, bad spacing, bad communication on both offense and defense. Looked like a team of players that never met each other before.
Let me put it this way. I can't even properly judge any of these guys playing this bad as a team. Giving players props for effort is not how I do things. Smart was just plain bad with his approach, has a terrible feel for the game.
I'd give this game overall a grade = F.
Jeez man, not high on Smart huh?
Summer league is not the time to be "playing like a team". It's a time when the sophomores try to incorporate the things they've been working on into live game action, the rookies try to establish themselves and the other 60% of guys are just trying to cling to the end of someone's roster. They run relatively simple sets, no one is expected to have any kind of communication because for the most part it IS a team of guys who've hardly met before. You don't always "play to win" in summer league.
Smart is your best young prospect. It's well established that he's an absolute stud on D, but you have high hopes for his offensive game. He's been working all off-season on driving to the hoop and hitting the jump shot. He has the skills to be good at both. This is the perfect time to hand him the reigns and let him work in those improvements. He was driving to the hoop with a purpose, which we didn't see much last year. Generating FT attempts is going to be what takes Smart from a good to great player. If he can get 8-10 ppg on FT's, he could easily become a 18-20/7/6 guy with all-world D. I'd rather him hog the ball and work on that than give Holmes more touches.