Still looking for a return to the NBA, will Isaiah Thomas succeed in achieving his wish? Unlikely according to the latest echoes, despite impressive performances in ProAm. Big blow for the leader.
Three small games this season at the Pelicans, and that’s it: it’s Isaiah Thomas’ hard record in the NBA. If he was able to show that he was always comfortable offensively, he remains above all a weakness when it comes to defending. His small size does not help, and the attacks have understood this well. However, the person still dreams of returning.
After failed passages at the Lakers, Cavaliers or even the Nuggets, Thomas still has hopes of returning to the NBA. The reason ? He is finally in good health according to him, fully recovered from his hip injury. This shows in ProAm, where it still comes from to chain a monumental box.
The question being: can this convince franchises? We rather want to say no. So yes, IT has a series of big performances, but the context is important. These meetings remain at a very distant level of the NBA, and when we see that the little leprechaun is defended by a player even smaller than him, one can wonder about the relevance of these matches.
IT may send a salty message to the rest of the league on Twitter, that’s not the way the league really likes it. Some undoubtedly preferred that the leader be discreet and work in silence, rather than string together polemical messages. Nevertheless, a way out exists in the East with the Celtics, who have Brad Stevens as their leader. But Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated came to calm it all down.
Brad Stevens has some loyalty to Isaiah Thomas for what he did in 2017 – playing injured, taking the team to the conference finals. There is an attachment, that’s for sure. The problem is, we have a good idea of Isaiah’s game today, and he is far from being at his best during his time in Boston.
It can be said, no one is really impressed by Thomas’ performance in ProAm, on the contrary. If he wants a real chance, maybe he should have bet on the Summer League, while the training camp is another opportunity.
Isaiah Thomas at the Celtics? It is rather badly started now, as for the rest. The interest is not there, and the point guard will have to do something else to try to return to the NBA.
