Ian Fleming once scribed a famous line in his 1959 James Bond novel Goldfinger, where Auric Goldfinger proclaims to James Bond, “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it’s enemy action.”
Other less combative, more scientific versions have derived over the years, including once being a fluke, chance or even an accident, twice always being the coincidence, and three times being a pattern or trend.
We are entering that third consecutive year of Thon Maker in the playoffs, a time where he has more than risen to the occasion in his rookie and sophomore years with the Milwaukee Bucks.