Lyndsay Hunter
Let us all jump for joy. Maybe he can live up to Lyndsay Hunter and exceed expectations.
But he plays a lot like Lyndsay Hunter did.
Hunter was actually more athletic too. A mix between Tony Allen and Marcus if you will.
Good defender, bad shooting. Shot the three ball decent.
When you look at the stats.....I could see Marcus putting up similar stats in hunter's good years.
Before you go crazy, this is just a scenario where the worst might become possible to what Celtic Bloggers think Marcus's ceiling might be.
Take a look at the video and tell me this did not look a lot like Smart in his season, strips, all out hustle, blocks from out of nowhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzO1NRoKjLg
I don't see how you can say "My Lindsay Hunter comparison is a worst case scenario thing" in one breath, and then absolutely rip apart other posters for making comps to guys like Payton and D-Will that are clearly best-case scenario. Especially when the biggest factor that goes into whether or not a guy reaches his full potential or not is mindset, drive and work ethic. Which by all accounts, Smart seems to have in spades.
There's more reasoning behind a comp to a guy like Gary Payton than Hunter. Payton and Smart have specific skills that are VERY similar. Payton was an elite defender who just straight beat on dudes, but it took him a few years to really develop his complete game. Very similar situation with Smart. There's nothing like that with Smart and Hunter. I get your trying to temper what you see as "unrealistic" comps for Smart around here, but at this point your Lindsay Hunter comparison has just as much, if not less, than a Gary Payton one, and it would be better to treat it as such.
My question though is, how come that for all the time I spend here, the only times the name "Celtics2030" is in a threat about Smart, a thread you created about Smart, or a game thread talking about Smart. I'm starting to think your really Noah Vonleh and your awful sore about the C's not picking you.