Cam Thomas had a coming-out party in his second Milwaukee Bucks game, scoring 34 points, four rebounds, and four three-pointers to lead his new team to a 116-108 road win against the Orlando Magic on Wednesday night.
A few days ago, Thomas was without an NBA team after the Brooklyn Nets waived him. And now it seems he has found a new home with the Milwaukee Bucks, who are doing their best to cope without their injured star, Giannis Antetokounmpo.
“I am more than just a scorer. I feel like. Playmaking. Drawing the defense on me, making the right plays. I feel like that’s a part of my game that gets underrated just because I score the ball so well. People don’t really look at that,” Thomas said.
“He’s literally a microwave. First thing he said when he introduced himself he said is ‘I’m a bucket.’ We want him to be just that. We need him to be just that, ‘cause we need more scoring. We’ve been getting better on the defensive end, but we still lack sometimes on the offensive end, and trying to find ways to put the ball in the hole. So Cam is huge. He came up huge tonight,” Kevin Porter Jr. said of his new teammate via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Milwaukee Bucks News: Doc Rivers puts Cam Thomas in legendary Sixth Man company
Doc Rivers has had the privilege of coaching some of the best scorers in NBA history, and the Milwaukee Bucks head coach likened Cam Thomas to two of them in his postgame interview yesterday.
“It’s unbelievable. I’ve had Jamal Crawford, I’ve had Lou Williams, and now I have Cam Thomas,” Rivers stated. “Very similar, but they’re all different in their own ways. Cam wants to do right. He wants to play well. You can see that. We’re going to give him every opportunity. “
“The guy is a natural scorer, and you can see that. He probably forced one or two today where he over-dribbled. You live with that, and you teach that to get that out of him. But overall, he was fantastic, and he competed on the other end,” he continued.
