It is very likely that because Carey Owen was absent, the wizard did not have time to make a scout report on Cameron Thomas who was in danger. If Wizards had made a scout report, they would not have taken a lot of relieve a garrison to prevent Thomas from breaking down.
This season, Thomas scored 0.776 points per round, only 29 percent better than the league players. However, Thomas singles scored 1.138 points per round, better than 79 percent of the league’s players.
In the fourth quarter, Thomas scored 19 points in a single section, most of which came from singles. Wizards watched Thomas devouring defenders alive with singles. In the whole game, Thomas made 16 out of 23 shots, among which 4 out of 5 3-point shots and 44 points off 9 penalty 8, leading the basketable Nets lacking the three giants to achieve a 23-point reversal, beat the Wizards 125-123.
44 points per game is Thomas’s career high. According to statistics, Thomas is the player who takes at least 44 points on the bench. He only used 29 minutes 8 seconds, and the previous record was J.R. Smith created it in the first world war between the Nuggets and the King in 2009. At that time, he scored 45 points at 29 minutes 31 seconds on the bench.
Thomas is still the eccentric player who seldom passes and cannot defend, but when basketable nets gives him a chance, he is really capable of cutting points. On December 11 last year, basketable nets 3 points to beat the Pacers, Thomas substitute came on the stage and scored 33 points.
Thomas was born in a military family. His mother Leslie Thomas played basketball in Virginia in junior high school and senior high school. He joined the Army in 1990 and had stationed experience in the United States and other countries. In 2001, Leslie gave birth to Thomas in Kanagawa, Japan.
Thomas liked basketball when he was two years old. His favorite star was Kobe Bryant, the famous Lakers. He had said many times that he grew up watching Kobe play, I watched many Kobe games and video clips through the video website.
“I am Kobe’s loyal fans. Because of Kobe’s existence, I know everything about the Lakers and I am Kobe’s hardcore fans.” Thomas said, “the first time I watched Kobe play, I was fascinated. I also wanted to do everything he did. I also wanted to shoot every kind of shot he shot. I just imitate Kobe, imitate his low steps, jump shot and backward.”
The biggest influence of being born in a military family on Thomas was that he learned discipline from a very young age. Leslie instilled the concepts of discipline and punctuality into his son when Thomas was very young. Thomas followed his mother’s instruction, got up early every day, went to school and trained on time, and was gentle and gentle inside and outside the court. He didn’t laugh on the court, don’t talk rubbish with your opponent.
When Thomas was 10 years old, he was ready to work hard towards becoming a professional player. Leslie became Thomas’s coach and sparring. She would take Thomas to the community center to practice basic skills and shoot, sometimes twice a day.
“He practiced shooting and I picked up the ball for him,” Leslie recalled. “That scene was very strange, because no matter when we went to practice, I am the only mother there. Some children would stop to watch US practice, and Thomas would not feel embarrassed.”
Although Leslie has no professional basketball background or even played college basketball, she has excellent polishing effect on her son’s basic skills. You will find that Thomas’s basic skills are very solid. The left and right hand fengshui ball have balanced abilities. He has everything in projection, breakthrough and throwing, and his free throw hit rate has been above 80% for a long time.
Thomas thanked her mother very much: “Her support helped me reach the next level and became the person I am today. She just taught me how to lay the foundation and help me lay the foundation.”
Thomas High School entered the prestigious school Oak Hill Academy, and surpassed Kevin Durant and Cameron Anthony to become the scoring king of school history. Thomas ranked 23rd in the 2020 High School Ranking. Louisiana coach Will Wade launched a crazy recruitment to Thomas. Wade persuaded Leslie to give his son to him at ease.
In the 2020-21 season, Thomas scored 23 points per game in Louisiana and was the scoring king among NCAA freshmen. Thomas led the team into the crazy March brocade, winning 27 points and 30 points respectively in the two games.
What impressed Wade most was the battle between Louisiana and University of Missouri on March 7, 2021. Thomas broke down 29 points with an ankle injury. Wade sighed with emotion: “when recruiting him, you didn’t know how strong he was. You didn’t understand his inner nature. You didn’t know how much his driving force was, how disciplined he is.”
After finishing the freshman season, Thomas decided to take part in the NBA draft. Thomas’s market is erratic. Everyone knows that he can score. The key is what else can he do besides scoring? ESPN commented to him: “In addition to scoring, he has obvious defects in other aspects, poor defense, and insufficient decision-making and passing skills.”
Thomas considered himself the “2021th strongest scorer” in the interview. His greatest advantage was that he could cut points in various ways and had strong confidence. Thomas also said that he knew that he had some problems, but he was not willing to call them “weaknesses”. The defensive and passing abilities were just links that needed to be improved.
In the 2021draft conference, Thomas was selected by basketable nets in the 27th place. He opened his suit and showed it to reporters, which contained various Kobe elements.
Basketable Nets general manager Bobby Max gave Thomas a high evaluation of heart and confidence, but one owned Durant, Owen and Harden (leaving the team in the middle) how could the Championship team give Thomas the opportunity to show these qualities.
During the rookie season, Thomas had 15 games on the inactive list, with an average score of 8.5 points in 17.6 minutes. In February 2022, at the time when Durant was injured, Harden left and Owen could only play away, Thomas broke out and scored 16.5 points per month, and 30 points against jazz in the first world war.
The problem is that apart from scoring, Thomas can provide too little contribution. Therefore, when the basketable Nets lineup is neat, Thomas rarely gets the chance to show his scoring talent through the summer league and the Development League.
This season, Thomas still didn’t get too many opportunities, and his average playing time even declined, and he was involved in trading rumors. But Thomas’s magic was that every time he gave enough opportunities basketable nets, he could stand up most of the time to bring basketable nets surprises. This season, Thomas has played for more than 28 minutes in 6 games, which is equivalent to the sixth person’s level. The lowest score is also 15 points, and 3 games have more than 20 points.
A scout thinks that Thomas will become the sixth Super person like Louis Williams and Jamal-Crawford in the future. But basketable Nets expect Thomas more than that, and they don’t want Thomas to be satisfied with just being a cutting expert.
Max’s expectation for Thomas is: “The next step is to make sure he understands the concept of defense, not just to be a one-dimensional player. It is very easy for him to attack. Now he just needs to make sure that everyone around him can become better, less strong investment, and sink his heart to polish the defense well.”
Thomas, like many arrogant young people, had all kinds of heroic words. How to call young people if they are not energetic? For example, Thomas said he would compare himself with Devon Booker, Bradley bill and James Harden. For example, Thomas said that the scoring king, MVP and the Hall of Fame were all his goals.
But Thomas was also very realistic and knew what his immediate goal was:
“Learn like a sponge, learn from experience and lessons, and do everything the team wants you to do to improve yourself. You can play first and get a stable playing time.”
After the trading deadline, perhaps the opportunity belonging to Thomas will come.