Thomas is "A Great Athlete" - Mike Gorman, 1/25/2016

[TheOneTrueRobb]

Discuss....

[BitterJim]

Well, he is.  He's one of the fastest players in the NBA

[greece66]

Most NBA guards are 'great athletes'; if by this we mean that they can run fast and for a sustained period of time.

As it stands, the quote does not have enough 'juice' to be worth discussing.

[Kuberski33]

Guy's small in size, yet consistently draws contact and finishes against bigs.  And can score against just about anyone.  Yes, a great athlete - above average for the NBA - and a hell of a basketball player too.

[max215]

Dude is probably not even 5'8" and can dunk. He's also disgustingly quick and his ability to stop/start on a dime is deadly.

[PhoSita]

If you're shorter than me and you score 20+ points a game in the NBA, you're a freaking incredible athlete.

Isaiah is an athletic outlier in the way that Yao Ming was a height outlier.


There's a huge amount of skill and guile (aka intelligence) to his game, too.  Don't mean to detract from that.

[BudweiserCeltic]

Discuss....

You first.

[LilRip]

I agree.

[Ogaju]

NBA is a tall man's league. A ahort man making it to the NBA is a great accomplishment, a short man excelling in the NBA is a monumental feat. IT is about to be selected into the All-tar game, therefore he is monumental hence great.

Gorman was right.

[Celtics18]

I like to compare him to Messi.

[Roy H.]

Discuss....

You first.

Haha.  Yeah, these things work better if the initial poster posits a viewpoint.

This statement doesn't seem that controversial.  Thomas is, indeed, a great athlete.  He's fast, agile, can leap, and has great coordination.