Josh Smith is having the worst season of his career. Now the mistake everyone saw but the Detroit Pistons is finally being realized by them as well; they shouldn’t have signed him to that contract.
via ProBasketballTalk:
Playing far too much small forward, a position he can handle only in select matchups, his defense has really fallen off. Though Smith defends power forwards well, his his lack of speed on the perimeter kills his ability to chase wings around screens. He’s also taking way too many jumpers and not getting inside enough, an issue that exists no matter which forward position he’s playing.
Some of that is Smith fault, and some of that is the Pistons’. But it’s all the Pistons’ problem.
The Pistons signed Smith to a four-year, $54 million contract last summer, and they’ll have to pay him all that money – or find someone else to do it.
The Josh Smith experiment in Detroit is not going well, and there’s strong opinion around the league that the Pistons would trade him if they could — and “could” is the key word. Since Smith is in the first year of a four-year, $56 million deal, he is one of the most untradable players in the league.
