Why the title talk is too soon for Cooper Flagg, Mavs
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How much of an early impact do you see Cooper Flag making for Matt Dallas this year?
Their roster is very talented, but it's kind of weird.
Like, I think he's a four or five in the modern NBA.
He's the four.
he wants to be the four.
Is he gonna play the three?
are they gonna play him as like an I-O wing?
Cause I don't think that's his game.
i don't think he's like Kevin Durant 2.0.
The Mavericks need to reset their own external expectations because ever since the Trae D Luka Doncic, they keep talking about championships.
well, when you fail to make the playoffs, or fail to make the playoffs and then you land the number one overall draft pick, your timeline shifts.
i don't care what you say externally, internally, that just has to be the way it goes.
So if they put an emphasis on building up Cooper's, let's just say, his skill set, if they want him to be a playmaker.
I think that's great for Cooper Flagg and great for the long-term Mavericks.
What it won't be is good for win-now goals.
That's just sort of a fact of life.
Rookies don't impact winning.
Well, very, very rarely, and we've had some good ones the last 10 years.
Um, and so that's the roster part that Sam talks about, is pretty important.
they got a lot of stuff to suss out there.
With Cooper Flagg, when he's on the floor with 80 and hopefully with Kyrie at some point, he can impact the game in a winning way.
Across the board, we've seen this already in some league, and it might not necessarily be the sort of thing that fills the box score.
It's going to be rolling to the basket.
it's going to be sealing Draymond Green if he's gonna get a rebound and letting Anthony Davis wreak havoc.
The way Flagg plays, he wants to win at any cost, is what I've been told.
Like he's this, and I mean this in a positive way.
He's a basketball psychopath, is what people have told me.
I completely understand the KG comp for him.
Well, I don't think it's completely accurate because KG is like three to four inches taller.
It's the way he plays the game.
Yeah, the mental aspect, just like the way he processes the game, the priorities he has on the floor.
Like he seems like the type of guy who's gonna be just as happy if it's like.
15 points, 15 rebounds, and we win, as opposed to like 40 to 50 points in a way.
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