i agree. in my opinion, it's the chicken and the egg; the supporting cast around cousins/gay/thomas is fundamentally flawed, but thomas is also generally uninterested in making his teammates better, no matter how flawed some of them may be. sure, IT will pile up a handful of assists on any given night, but the team isn't better for it. he doesn't regularly involve those outside of the "big three." he doesn't play to the hot hand. more often than not, he has trouble throwing simple entry passes to cousins, and he's been godawful in a great many fourth quarters this season...
you can't have your floor general, your self-proclaimed team leader, playing selfish, craptastic basketball, especially in the fourth. that's crunch time. we know DMC isn't going anywhere. i'd like to think that rudy gay isn't going anywhere, either. so IT either needs to have a religious experience that transforms him into the kind of player who believes in keeping his teammates involved, or he needs to be returned to a sixth man's role, or he needs to be traded. but continuing to stuff a square peg into a round hole in the starting unit is just untenable across the long term...
you can't have your floor general, your self-proclaimed team leader, playing selfish, craptastic basketball, especially in the fourth. that's crunch time. we know DMC isn't going anywhere. i'd like to think that rudy gay isn't going anywhere, either. so IT either needs to have a religious experience that transforms him into the kind of player who believes in keeping his teammates involved, or he needs to be returned to a sixth man's role, or he needs to be traded. but continuing to stuff a square peg into a round hole in the starting unit is just untenable across the long term...
