Cooper Flagg's NBA Debut and Early Season Analysis

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00:00Cooper Flagg in his first game struggled a little bit in his debut

00:04versus the San Antonio Spurs.

00:06You've got to understand, folks, he did not get off to a good start.

00:09But after his big performance Sunday night

00:12and a better performance in game number two,

00:14Cooper Flagg's now averaging 16.7 points per game,

00:186.3 rebounds, 3.3 assists, shooting 44% from the floor and 33% from three.

00:24Now, I think the three-point split is going to come up a little bit.

00:27I think it's going to be about a 36%, 37% shooter from three.

00:31But Cooper Flagg has shown you in part of why he's such a generational talent.

00:38I really consider him to be a chameleon, right?

00:41Someone that can impact the game in different ways,

00:45offensively and defensively, in the half-court and transition.

00:49And now, especially as the point guard and Jason Kidd's offense,

00:54obviously with Kyrie Irving being out and D'Angelo Russell coming off the bench,

01:00you now have Cooper Flagg running the point with, obviously, Clay Thompson.

01:08And I think this is something we're going to have to monitor with Cooper Flagg

01:12is his rebounds and his assists,

01:14his ability to impact the game in different ways.

01:18It wasn't the start that Cooper Flagg wanted.

01:21He did end up with a double-double opening game.

01:23But to me, what was most impressively with Cooper Flagg

01:26is his ability to run the point and really start to get better.

01:31Cooper Flagg will continue to improve as the season goes along for a Dallas team,

01:35I firmly think, makes the playoffs.

01:39Well, we've talked about a couple of workies that have done well.

01:42Let's talk about one that's not.

01:44And that's Dylan Harper's teammate Ace Bailey,

01:46who's off to an extremely slow start, getting one point, not 10, not 100,

01:53one, uno, point per game, three rebounds, 1.5 assists, and 10% field goal shooting.

02:01Now, I think eventually Ace is going to be a very good scorer in the league.

02:08Number one, what are we doing in Utah?

02:10I know Keontae George is a good player,

02:12but if you want to see if this kid is a good, put him in the starting lineup.

02:17Let him play.

02:18You're not going anywhere.

02:20It's obvious that you weren't tanking,

02:22and they either want Darren Peterson, you know, Cam Boozer, or A.J. DeBanza.

02:28So why are we playing around with this now?

02:31And then you've got this lineup that they're going with triple bigs,

02:34you know, with Markkinen and Kessler and Filipowski.

02:39You can't slide this kid in as a three right now, put Markkinen at the four?

02:43And Walker Kessler at the five?

02:44Maybe they're trying to get some kind of a trade package for one of these guys,

02:48but we need this kid to play, and we need to put him on the floor,

02:52because I do think he can score.

02:54So I'm not talking about it.

02:55I'm not going anywhere.

02:56So I know we're talking about him.

02:56Okay.

02:56So I don't know that there's a little bit of a trade package here,

02:57and that I think if he can work,

02:57and then, we need to put him on the floor.

03:02Like 25 Nachance, you know,

03:16obviously it's kind of a trade package.

03:17So we're just playing the game here,

03:19but we need more.

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