Shut Up and Listen!

by Deon Carson
 

                Is Isaiah Thomas crazy? Yep. Was he a losing coach? Yep. Was he a terrible president of basketball operations? Yep. As a player was he a fierce competitor, a winner, and the best little guard to ever lace em up? Absolutely yes. This is why I do not understand the blatant disrespect that Zeke receives for his on the court game.  Please do not compare any of these players to Zeke (sorry CP3 that includes you).  Isaiah could score and if he were stupid he could have avg. 30, but as we have seen when your PG avg. 30 you do not win championships, go ask Iverson how that worked out. Instead of averaging a ton of points Isaiah chose to win he saved his fireworks for the biggest moments.

          Isaiah Thomas had some great great moments, like the 1990 NBA finals when In game one, Isaiah scored 16 points in the 4th quarter bringing the Pistons all the way back from ten points down with seven minutes remaining. He scored 22 points in a quarter later in those Finals. He averaged 27.6 points, 7.0 assists, and 5.2 rebounds against Portland that series. In the 1989 playoffs Isaiah and the Pistons would lose only 2 games in route to their championship. The legendary ankle sprain game when Isaiah scored 25 points in the 3^rd quarter of game 6 against the Lakers on a badly hurt ankle. I won't even bring up the 16 points in 94 seconds in game five against the Knicks in the playoffs (oops too late).  I could go on all day about Zeke and his feats the point is there was no little guard ever better than Isaiah; he elbowed his way into history. While the league was celebrating Magic and Bird, and elevating Jordan the smallest man of them all managed to leave a huge footprint on the league. You may not like it but he did it his way and succeeded, 1 National Championship, 2 NBA Championships I'd say his accomplishments speak for themselves. My last note is that a man like Karl Malone who could never get it done should not be allowed to say any disparaging words about Isaiah remember Karl the mailman doesn't deliver on Sundays.