Isaiah Thomas

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I believe he needs an increase to the 80-82 range.

[Jeremiah Hill]

Thomas is still shooting like 44% overall and shoots 5 3 pointers a game. I can see him going up to 77-79 range, he's not an 80. At least not yet.

[Walt Frazier]

44% for a guard is actually not all that bad for a guard. I'm not saying it's good, but it's not far off of average for a lot of guards. If you think that's bad, go take a look at guys like Jennings. Apparently Jennings should be a 70 for you?

I'd put IT2 at a 79 or 80 for now.

[Jeremiah Hill]

I can't stand Brandon Jennings so I'm not going to answer that question. We agree on the rating though, 78-79 is fair gives credit for his production but also takes into account that he's on a team where his coach lets him shoot 5.5 threes a game which really helps his ppg. This is about a player that I actually really like, but does anyone really see him as anything more than a slightly less athletic Nate Robinson with slightly better intangibles? (Still a good player)

[Bryan Colangelo]

ill say 80, he's doing really well this year

[Jeremiah Hill]

Does anyone know if his stats have gone up since they got Rudy Gay? If he got more efficient and his assist rating went up I'd say 80 is a solid rating. If they've stayed the same I'd say 79.

[Alex English]

He's having a huge breakout season. I'll give him an 80.

[Jeremiah Hill]

Feb 11, 2014 3:50:02 GMT Andrei Kirilenko said:

He's putting up the same stats as Kyrie and doing it more efficiently. Like Kyrie, though, it doesn't translate into wins.

81 feels right for IT

As a Cavs fan, ugh I know right? If we are comparing him to Kyrie's rating then yes I agree. But the 80 that was suggested seems about right after you put it that way.

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75, he is on a CRAPPY team!

[Jeremiah Hill]

By that logic Kyrie should be a 75 as Josh Barber stated his stats are very similar to Kyrie and he is really highly rated. Both on terrible teams.

[Walt Frazier]

I will say, as a fantasy basketball player in deep leagues who is always searching for good players that other people don't know about, Isaiah has actually been doing basically exactly this for 3 seasons now, counting this one. (Caveat - when he got the minutes)

Rookie year, as a starter (37 games) - 31+ mpg, 15 ppg, 5.4 apg, 3.1 rpg, 1.0 stl, 2.0 TO, 47.7/40.6/84.1 %'s
Soph Year, as a starter (62 games) - 29+ mpg, 15 ppg, 4.4 apg, 2.1 rpg, 1.0 stl, 1.8 TO, 44.2/36.6/87.9 %'s
This Year, as a starter (33 games) - 37+ mpg, 22 ppg, 6.9 apg, 3.0 rpg, 1.3 spg, 2.8 TO, 43.9/36.3/87.6 %'s

Basically, to me, this isn't really a breakout, he's already proven 2 years in a row before this one that he is this player. He's just getting more minutes. This doesn't mean he shouldn't get a boost, obviously, I think my point here is there is a part of me that really wants to give him like an 82 instead of what I said before (79-80), but I think some of the uneducated here would flame me for it. I really like his entire offensive game. He's not too great on D, very small, but we've had other Non-D guys rated pretty highly (Steve Nash as a prime example), so I think he has room to go up into the 84-86 range himself if he keeps it up.

I'm going to change my rating to 82 though, I really think his game is good enough for that.

[Ian Noble]

I think he should be an 80, he deserves to get beyond the 70s range. It's really impressive to see a guy under 6ft tall doing so much.

[Walt Frazier]

Should look at updating IT2's rating if we haven't pushed it through already.

75
78
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82

Averages to a 79.857 so, looks like IT2 is an 80 right now.

[Phil Jackson]

If he's going to increase I think Damian Lillard must also get an increase...

[Walt Frazier]

Mar 26, 2014 14:22:28 GMT Phil Jackson said:

If he's going to increase I think Damian Lillard must also get an increase...

He is getting an increase, that's how these things work. Go post in the Lilliard thread or make one if there isn't one already if you want to discuss Lilliard.

[Mike Krzyzewski]

81