5-4 this season with Smart playing.
If we win this game we'll be 4-3 without Smart playing.
Just checking in advance... if we win this game, is it because Smart isn't playing?.. since we blamed random losses on him not playing?
Smart gives us depth.
Whether we win or not, is simply cause our players showed up, and worked hard.
We aren't that talented. Just deep.
So its up to Brad Stevens to be able to utilize the right lineups versus certain match ups, to help us win games.
Yeah I know... I'm being cheeky. Smart being in there doesn't make much of a difference one way or the other. He helps us defensively and hurts us offensively. Lots of depth on this team to withstand injuries to any one player. We mostly just struggled those two games, because we didn't take our opponent seriously or give it 110% effort.
Smart is not great offensively, but he is not 'hurting' us. He is easily one of our best players now, and his absence is hurting us.
Also, there is a difference between winning OKC and Houston away from home, on the one hand, and losing to Brooklyn and (almost losing) to Philly.