Before Saturday’s game vs. the Pacers, the Nets coaching staff thought winning could depend on whether Cam Thomas had a big game. After all, the team’s top eight scorers were out that game. And everyone knew Thomas had it in him. When pressed into service last February with Kyrie Irving out, Thomas had an eight-game stretch in which he averaged 21.4 points a game.
“It’s an interesting task for him and challenge for him,” Jacque Vaughn said during a Zoom call Wednesday morning. “Just because I thought as a group we wanted Cam to really, if we thought about it before the game, everyone was like Cam’s gotta score 30 for us in this game for us to have a chance to win.