Brooklyn Nets guard Cam Thomas has always been known as one of the better scorers in the NBA ever since he cracked the Nets’ rotation for good two seasons ago. Thomas not only has been an effective scorer for Brooklyn over the past two years, but he has done it while hitting some of the toughest shots that Nets fans have seen since the days of the big 3.
Thomas is coming off the best season of his career as he averaged 24.0 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 3.8 assists per game while shooting 43.8% from the field and 34.9% from three-point land. While Thomas put up the best numbers that Brooklyn has seen from him since taking him with the 27th overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft, he also dealt with some injuries for the majority of the season.
Thanks to dealing with left hamstring strains, including the last one that ended his season in March, Thomas played in just 25 games, the fewest games that he played in. Prior to this season, Thomas had played in at least 57 games in each of his first three years so Nets fans were only able to see Thomas work his magic for a limited amount of time for a Brooklyn team that finished with a 26-56 record.
On the bright side, this season showed that Thomas was ready to assume a bigger role in the offense as the primary scoring option, especially given the fact that he led the Nets in scoring by nearly six points per contest. While Thomas has the reputation of being a player who only shoots the ball, he is one of just seven players this regular season to average at least 24.0 points and 3.8 assists per game while turning the ball over 2.5 times per game or less.
To that point, Thomas grew in the playmaking department by not only increasing his assists per game by nearly one full assist per contest from last season, but he also did it for a Nets team that finished the year with three of the top-5 passers not on the roster. With that being said, here is a compilation of some of the tough buckets that Thomas made over the course of the 2024-25 season as courtesy of Brooklyn’s content team: