J.R. Smith:

[ImKobe]

JR Smith won 6th man of the year on a 54 win 2 seed. He shot 33% in the playoffs in total and 27% from 3 pt land. What more do you want?

That Knicks team was not a contender bro. Just a good enough team to stack up regular season wins in the East (when they were hot the 1st half of the season from 3).

Plus, he got too many minutes for my liking anyways. He's not good playing 30+ minutes a game. Giving him free reign gives him too much confidence to chuck more bad shots. He needs to be played like 20 min at best.

[Cali Syndicate]

http://www.basketball-reference.com/.../fg3_game.html

Not agreeing with him by any means but to be fair, he's on this list a good number of times.

[BoutPractice]

He's on pace for serious rehab, that's about it.

[J Shuttlesworth]

That Knicks team was not a contender bro. Just a good enough team to stack up regular season wins in the East (when they were hot the 1st half of the season from 3).

Plus, he got too many minutes for my liking anyways. He's not good playing 30+ minutes a game. Giving him free reign gives him too much confidence to chuck more bad shots. He needs to be played like 20 min at best.

You can't be considered one of the greatest shooters of all time if you can only shoot efficiently when playing 20 minutes at most a game

[Milbuck]

http://www.basketball-reference.com/.../fg3_game.html

Not agreeing with him by any means but to be fair, he's on this list a good number of times.

People just look at who he is as a person and his reputation around the league, and completely dismiss his ability.. Just going by numbers, he actually is a very, very good 3 point shooter. Obviously makes his fair share of dumb plays and takes a ton of dumb shots...but if you have made over 1300 3s on 37% 3PT shooting by age 28, and have averaged right around 150 3s a season for 6 seasons straight...you deserve some credit.

[tpols]

That Knicks team was not a contender bro. Just a good enough team to stack up regular season wins in the East (when they were hot the 1st half of the season from 3).

Plus, he got too many minutes for my liking anyways. He's not good playing 30+ minutes a game. Giving him free reign gives him too much confidence to chuck more bad shots. He needs to be played like 20 min at best.

Theyre not a contender.. but JR wasa spark off the bench and he sucked.

I guess if you gave JR, Danny Green minutes and told him he could never dribble the ball more than two times without passing it and could never take 2 pointers unless in absolute desperation, hed be alright.. but he wouldnt be JR anymore. He gets the majority of his points from long 2 pointers and hes a ball stopper/team rythym killer.

[Cali Syndicate]

People just look at who he is as a person and his reputation around the league, and completely dismiss his ability.. Just going by numbers, he actually is a very, very good 3 point shooter. Obviously makes his fair share of dumb plays and takes a ton of dumb shots...but if you have made over 1300 3s on 37% 3PT shooting by age 28, and have averaged right around 150 3s a season for ...you deserve some credit.

He's The very definition of a volume scorer. But in terms of his ability to shoot, can't argue against it.

[Brokenbeat]

[COLOR="Magenta"]muh boi jr holdin shiz down

yall cant preshiate hiz greatnezz[/COLOR]

Nailed it.

[iznogood]

Obviously this is a complete exaggeration and he's stupid and all that..but he does deserve some credit.

Surprisingly, he's on pace to easily be in the top 10 all time in 3-pointers made, with very respectable efficiency from that range as well.

He's averaged around 148 3s a season for the past 6 seasons, if he can continue that for just 3 more seasons he's #10. He's only 28, and as dumb as he is, he's good enough to stay in the league for probably 6-8 more years unless he goes full Steve Francis or Starbury. 120 3s over the next 5 seasons, which is very doable considering he'll definitely put up more than 120 in most of those seasons, would put him at #6 behind Pierce. So far he's shooting 37% from 3 and 38% if you discount his rookie season which is a clear outlier, and that's pretty damn good.

I strongly dislike J.R. Smith, but this is a very good argument.

[retaxis]

I think j r smith is just pretending to be a block head sometimes. I mean no idiot makes hundred million themselves. Its not just talent but skills in building relationships with powerful stars and owners ( melos bff ), able to play well and win 6moty, able to make it through the grinds of professional basketball where people who probably seems to have much higher intelligence and skills busted out. He pretends he is from the street but he grew up ina middle upper class household and knows the whole 'game' well

[StephHamann]

People just look at who he is as a person and his reputation around the league, and completely dismiss his ability.. Just going by numbers, he actually is a very, very good 3 point shooter. Obviously makes his fair share of dumb plays and takes a ton of dumb shots...but if you have made over 1300 3s on 37% 3PT shooting by age 28, and have averaged right around 150 3s a season for 6 seasons straight...you deserve some credit.

[ILLsmak]

[COLOR="Magenta"]muh boi jr holdin shiz down

yall cant preshiate hiz greatnezz[/COLOR]

Haha

-Smak

[To4]

Honestly.. JR Smith is really crazy talented.. but his personality and brain.. ugh like Michael Beasley. Anybody here in ISH would kill for their talent. they just got no drive.. damn shame..

[kshutts1]

Milbuck owned this thread. I came in here to say everything he said, and he said it way more eloquently and convincingly than I could have dreamed. Props to him

[IGOTGAME]

Honestly.. JR Smith is really crazy talented.. but his personality and brain.. ugh like Michael Beasley. Anybody here in ISH would kill for their talent. they just got no drive.. damn shame..

JR put in tons of work. That is just stupid group speak.