Yahoo Sports senior NBA analyst Kevin O’Connor and fantasy basketball analyst Dan Titus discuss why Cam Thomas is ready to break out and show why his talents were kept under wraps for most of his Nets tenure. Hear the full conversation on “The Kevin O’Connor Show” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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I'm gonna go with Cam Thomas with the Brooklyn Nets.

And if you look at Cam Thomas's trajectory, he didn't really have a chance to really showcase what he could do under Jacques Vonn.

Once Jacques Vaughn was fired last year, he kind of held him back.

He averaged 25 points with four rebounds and four assists.

And where I come away, most encouraged by Cam Thomas's trajectory is really that unheralded playmaking.

He never really got a chance to have the ball in his hands as a creator.

And I think that's where the growth we're going to see in this season because there aren't really many scoring options outside of him.

We already know that he's a bucket getter.

That's how he's been typecast and this is going to be a developmental rebuild.

Cam Thomas is going to be the focal point of his offense and he could be the corner one of their cornerstone pieces he's contract eligible, so he has a financial motivation to really be great this year and he was one of only nine players last year to have, um, a 30% usage rate and score 20 points per game last year.

So I think it does already speaks to what he's capable of and now that you add in more responsibility, I think he's, you're gonna see a more well rounded player that's actually going to become at the top 15 score in the league.

And I, I think that he could actually get there like he could average 2526 points per game this year.

It's interesting with Cam Thomas.

He's a guy I have always liked, I had Cam Thomas ranked, I think I had him like 1011 or 12 in his draft class.

I've always liked Cam Thomas and his productivity over the years.

We like you talk about last season, what he did after J Vaughan was fired the year prior.

I mean, he had that three game stretch in February where he had 44 points one night, 47 the next game, 43 the next game.

And it's like, yo, why aren't they feeding this guy all the time?

But it's never, he's never been in, been in a winning situation.

He won't be in a winning situation this year either from a fantasy perspective.

I think Cam Thomas undoubtedly is probably gonna be like a favorite sleeper and Cam Thomas belongs on the list.

Hopefully at some point, he's able to do it in a winning situation.

It's not gonna happen this year in Brooklyn.

Maybe he'll, maybe he'll be a trade guy who knows.

Maybe a team will take a look and say we want Cam Thomas to be our spark plug.

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