His high school coach didn’t see it. “I just wanted him to be a good Husky,” said Lindsay Bemis, Isaiah Thomas’ coach at Curtis High in Tacoma, Wash.
His college coach didn’t see it, either.
“For him to be in the conversation for MVP of the whole NBA, I have to admit I didn’t predict this,” said UW basketball coach Lorenzo Romar.
Not even former Celtic Evan Turner, an eyewitness to Thomas’ ascension, saw it.
“He told me this summer that there was going to be a jump in his game,” said Turner, who spent two years in Boston before signing with the Blazers in July.