Thompson finished 5th in the 6th man of the year award voting which typically goes to scoring wings.
24 minutes is plenty enough time for Thompson to compete for the award and also establish good results in sportsvu analytics.
Thompson is a proven playoff commodity and one would expect the Cavs defense will be better overall next season which will allow him to put up Green like defensive metrics.
Bullshit, what geared his interest up market wise the most was nothing that happen in the regular season. It was the fact Kevin Love went down in the playoffs, and we still played so well. So Tristan Thompson, to some credit of his, and a lot of it overblown, was seen as this very underrated, and undervalued player.
Hell, national media members were touting this constantly. It's easy to then put out the perception he's now worth bigger money than what he really is. You even have some people calling into question, if he's actually a better fit for this team than Kevin Love. A man that got max money.
But if things go back to reality, which hopefully they do. Kevin Love fits in better than he did last year, has a better year. We win a title in large part of him. Tristan still remains the same productive player, but off the bench, then that narrative can be put to its stop.
Having a breakout performance in the post season can make people get a little carried away, and Tristan found himself in that lucky circumstance. If Love doesn't go down, I don't think any of this get's as carried away as it did this off-season.
We've seen players time and time again get grossly overpaid, badly, over a neat little run they had in the post season.
His value was at its highest point after last year. Unless he completely improves in a lot of areas of his game this coming season, and we stay healthy, I don't see he improves upon that.