Himmelsbach doesn't quite get it, either.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/celtics/2017/04/03/marcus-smart-looking-for-way-out-shooting-slump/63rBDpDJnAW73s02t8INNM/story.html
There are other types of desperation shots besides strictly beyond halfcourt ones. Subtract all of them, and his percentages significantly improve. Even if it's just 0.5 a game, a grand total of 37 in 74 games, that would turn his current season percentages to 38.4 overall and 30.5 from three, not nearly good but not quite abominable either, just pretty bad.
Lol it's been a while since I've seen you on this board. Glad to see you're still making excuses for Smart.
Like I've been saying after watching Smart in his rookie year, the dude can hopefully become Tony Allen at this point. I had hope he would be more, but this past run has been a disappointment. The Celtics could really use him for spacing purposes. It would help out the offense a lot if he could hit a open 3.
Aren't there stats for that now? Somewhere in some analytic website's excel sheet is Smart's percentage on wide open threes in normal shot clock conditions. I bet it's better than you'd expect.
this season Marcus is shooting 31% on catch and shoot threes and 17% on pull-ups
He is shooting 34% on shots in the "average" range of the shotclock(15-7 seconds). Every other time period is pretty awful.
with a defender within 0-2 feet("very tight") he is shooting 14.3% on threes
within 2-4 feet("tight"): 26%
4-6("open"):32%
6+(very open):25%
Last year the numbers were completely different
He was awful catch and shoot and really good on pull-ups (37%)
He was really good early in the shot clock (by Marcus Smart standards) and historically bad in the middle of shot-clocks
He shot his best percentage with defenders within 2 feet of him.
His rookie numbers finally make some
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He was really good in catch and shoot. bad off the dribble. Terrible at the end of the shot clock, pretty good in the beginning, and made 40% of open threes.
Overall he is a
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