His scoring ability comes too easy. True three level scorer. The one thing I think is really underrated though is his athleticism. He’s not a freak fast twitch dunker type, but he obviously has a pretty explosive first step and he generates absurd separation on step backs and really gets up to finish at the rim. Watch the separation he got on Josh Green (good defender) on his last shot against Dallas. Dude teleports backwards and creates so much room on the step back.
From a pure athletic profile, he reminds me of young Harden. From a shot profile, he’s almost like a Booker/Beal hybrid.
I’m not comparing him to these players (way too premature obviously), but just stylistically he reminds me of them.
The fact that the Nets had this man benched for so long is worrisome. Especially after KD and Kyrie were gone.
He needs to be in the starting lineup permanently.
I made a post a few weeks ago and posted it here, twitter and NetsDaily and it seems to have gained traction across the Nets online chatter. I’m glad I was able to point out to people that Cam is actually an elite efficiency scorer not just someone that pours in points.
My post showed that it’s a fallacy that the Nets lost when Cam scored heavily. Nets have won and the losses came at the trade deadline against a stacked Clippers team and a stacked Suns team and the Nets didn’t have KD/Kyrie/Mikal/CJ/Dinwiddie/DFS so were very short-handed.
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If anyone is interested, here is a list of all 40 games where Cam Thomas played 25+ minutes!
[https://stathead.com/tiny/7CvAv](https://stathead.com/tiny/7CvAv)
His scoring ability comes too easy. True three level scorer. The one thing I think is really underrated though is his athleticism. He’s not a freak fast twitch dunker type, but he obviously has a pretty explosive first step and he generates absurd separation on step backs and really gets up to finish at the rim. Watch the separation he got on Josh Green (good defender) on his last shot against Dallas. Dude teleports backwards and creates so much room on the step back.
From a pure athletic profile, he reminds me of young Harden. From a shot profile, he’s almost like a Booker/Beal hybrid.
I’m not comparing him to these players (way too premature obviously), but just stylistically he reminds me of them.
The fact that the Nets had this man benched for so long is worrisome. Especially after KD and Kyrie were gone.
He needs to be in the starting lineup permanently.
I made a post a few weeks ago and posted it here, twitter and NetsDaily and it seems to have gained traction across the Nets online chatter. I’m glad I was able to point out to people that Cam is actually an elite efficiency scorer not just someone that pours in points.
My post showed that it’s a fallacy that the Nets lost when Cam scored heavily. Nets have won and the losses came at the trade deadline against a stacked Clippers team and a stacked Suns team and the Nets didn’t have KD/Kyrie/Mikal/CJ/Dinwiddie/DFS so were very short-handed.