The Game 5 comeback was a team effort, and tomorrow night’s attempt to close out the series at home (Bucks in 6?!) will also require everyone to be locked in. “Help me, zebras, you’re my only hope!” his body language shouted out.and was met by silent whistles, the collective groan of the crowd, and the slow dribble of the basketball in Holiday’s hands underneath the opposite basket. By extending his limbs and flailing in mid-air, he beseeched the referees for a favorable call. In true “Marcus Smart” fashion, he desperately sought to sell his snake oil to the officials. Marcus Smart's reaction to Jrue Holiday's strip actually deserves this so I'm sorry for going back in meme history /oeUZl3Qz6Q- Rob Lopez May 12, 2022 No, Jrue needed to drive the point home by lining up Marcus Smart’s up-court dribble.and just snatching it away. It wasn’t enough to snuff out his field goal attempt mere moments before. It’s a valuable lesson for kids, and we can only hope that Marcus Smart learned it from that play last night.īecause if he didn’t learn the first time, then on the very next possession, Jrue taught him that lesson again. I posted as much on Twitter that play carried the same energy that a parent carries with their child when they want to prove, just once, that they can absolutely dominate physically, if they choose to. Jrue blocked Smart clean, and there was nothing he could do about it. We have the ostensible “best defender in the league” getting directly and fiercely shut down by one of his peers, and in a fashion that leaves very little gray area to endlessly litigate over social media. So when Smart gets absolutely blindsided by Holiday – who placed 8th in the DPOY balloting – on a baseline drive to the bucket and has the ball whipped off of his torso and out of bounds, it tastes pretty sweet. We might detest his methods, but Smart gets results that helps his team more often than not, and the hometown Boston crowd loves him for it. All along though, Smart made his impact felt on defense, hounding the Bucks’ ball-handlers and endlessly inserting himself into the action to muck up Milwaukee’s already-mucky offense. In Games 1 and 3 (he sat out for Game 2 with a minor leg injury), Smart was a relative minus on offense for Boston, but he came through in a big way in Game 4 and maintained a respectable output in Game 5. The winner of the 2021-22 Defensive Player of the Year award, chosen by a modest margin and riding the wave of an arguably manufactured media “debate” about the selection criteria and pitting “bigs” against “smalls,” has played pretty well in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. (via /U4uVJsIVRN- Bleacher Report April 20, 2022Īh, Marcus Smart.
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