Time to get rid of the old hurt dudes and build around this kid.

Btw, LeBron had high school games on ESPN. He was one of a kind. Let Cooper be Cooper.

Lebron was hyped to the max before he played and exceeded expectations.

Only player I remember that had similar hype was Zion

the term “generational prospect” gets thrown around FAR too easily these days, but Flagg and Wemby are both actual “once in a generation”-level prospects, who just happened to be within 3 years of each other.

We are such a prisoner of the moment society. None of this was being said until that Charlotte game.

A good chunk of people felt he wasn’t even the best rookie this year, and now he only has Bron as a teenage comparison 😂

Like Rookie Wemby did not average 21.4 points and finished 2nd in DPOY his rookie season 😂

Cooper’s super good, he deserved every praise. But when we say TWO WAY player, he’s clearly behind Wemby.

Something about Windy I just don’t like

wemby averaged damn near the same amount of assists as flagg in his rookie season lol he controlled the game on both ends as well

Luka and Wemby are/were in their own class as teenagers

And LeBron as a teenager was much better too

Before today I thought Windhorst didn’t know anything about ball. Now I know he doesn’t know anything about ball

Coop is great but Windhorst is not a basketball scout.

Cooper is special. I was dead wrong about him, coming into the league I was not impressed with him. I thought he was pretty nice, maybe his ceiling was an all star, but he wasn’t going to be a “top guy” in the NBA at any point and I thought it’d take him a while to reach his ceiling. I am pretty glad that I’ve been forced to eat my words.

Also can we please stop comparing great young players to LeBron? I understand why people make these comparisons but I feel like it’s just unfair to put those sorts of expectations on a teenager. It was unfair when it happened to LeBron and just because he lived up to those expectations doesn’t mean we gotta keep doing it.

19-year-old just dropped 49 on ²⁰⁄₂₉ shooting, averaging 22/7/5 on 50.1% from the field and 57.7 TS% over his last 25 games and this entire thread is like “well ackshually he’s not that good” lmfao

this sub is so fried man

Please don’t compare anyone to LeBron, man. You are not doing the kid any favors. He is a teenager. Just let him be him.

I hope those media players stop associating new players to old players… cooper flagg is proving what he is capable of…

I don’t like the Bron comparison for a number of reasons.

But I get it.

I think Coop can be the best player in the league by the time he turns 24.

Windy has no idea what he’s talking about. Cooper Flagg rates 132nd in net points, for example, 1 point above average offensively and 11 points above average defensively. What we are seeing is huge confirmation bias due to narratives with Flagg: because he was the 1st overall pick, because he’s been hyped as a generational prospect, and because he’s had some great offensive games, people are hand-waving away negatives and seeing what they want to see. When, in actuality, he was awful the first month of the season (which still counts), he’s been an objectively mediocre offensive player, and has just been okay on defense (although quite good for a rookie). The fact of the matter is it’s very difficult for any player who’s not a big to be game-wrecking on defense. Wings need to be elite on offense to be elite, period, because they have many more opportunities to affect the game offensively than they do defensively.

Kon Knueppel, if you’re wondering, ranks 31st in net points, thanks to ranking 17th on offense. He is definitely bad on defense, but he’s been so great on offense it still results in him being an All-Star-level performer.

Flagg or Darryn Peterson will be the next American MVP

Maybe Ant if Minnesota ever gets him a real pg

This guy didn’t play basketball past the 5th grade during recess

It’s one fucking game. Give the kid a full season or 2, and we can see where he’ll sit in that echelon of players.

Everything I’m reading is saying he’s really good, but he needs time before we put these names up there.

When LeBron came to the League, it was in a place where a steady stream of Mega NBA stars was required because of MJs retirement. No one could have predicted his longevity.

I don’t even think that Flagg is the most hyped Duke prospect of the last ten years. By the end of the college season Zion was about in the Anthony Davis tier of biggest hype for anyone not named LeBron.

We saw LeBron too buddy they don’t compare lol god nba media is dog shit. Talking down about everything until they flip a switch and ride meat like they’re professionals just to be able to talk about anything

They’re all good but they just can’t resist making comparisons that make no sense

Gen Z Lebron

Ah windhorst found a new cock to ride. Good for him.

Flagg is an awesome player. Especially as a rookie. He literally could be one of the main guys in the league going forward.
But some of the underlying stats are slightly concerning. He’s not a perfect prospect. Windy is being a little dramatic here

Nico traded tubby fat lardball for LeBron 2.0, he was a hero all along

This guy is a wind bag. Doesn’t know shit about shit.

He really is incredible only half of a season into his career. The future is bright for the Mavericks if the new GM will have the common sense to be patient and not be in “win now mode”, forcing bad trades the way they did with Porzingis and Luka in his 2nd year.

People don’t realize how young Flagg really is, he played like a third of this season as an 18 year old. He’s going to explode imo, he’s already very good and players can take drastic leaps when they are this young.

Windhorst or Windbreaker?

Ok never heard this before 😂😂

White Mainer repping

Lol hell nah

Nico’s vision

I was thinking that they were showing clips of lebron looking way better in a clip that was supposed to compare them lol. Lebrons clips were insanely athletic and intuitive.

I’m personally taking Luka and LeBron ahead of him at his age still (I didn’t watch LeBron then)

Obviously this was Nico’s plan all along

out of topic but that LeBron dunk at 0:42 he got so high he have to bend his arm to dunk. it’s easy to forget how crazy athletic LeBron was

I didn’t like the LeBron comparison but after watching that 49pt game i kind of run out of ways to avoid the connection lol

Cooper being 70 to 80 percent of lebron is amazing alrdy

I need to make time to watch him. I’ve only seen him once this year and wasn’t blown away

I have been trying to coin “white LeBron” for Cooper Flagg for a while now with no success.

Imagine if Cooper Flagg ends up being Luka, but can play defense. How about the trade now?

There’s something about Windy’s body shape that makes me not trust his analysis on sports. Just can’t put my finger on it.

As soon as the words “both ends of the floor” were used, Luka was out of the conversation.

Imagine if they still had luka.. dallas is going to the finals next 5 yrs

Team USA lives to see another 4 years

Good for Dallas, man. Looks like this whole debacle is going to work out. I couldn’t have been more impressed by Flagg when they played Denver, dude is going to be great.

Man, Windhorst has really sold out, hasn’t he? Used to be really good, and now he’s just on the ESPN hyperbole train like the rest of them.

Why do the dallas Mavericks always get the star white boy? What kind of devil deal was it? /s

Just stop every young player with potential doesn’t need to be compared to LeBron. Windhorst specifically does this a lot, he probably was one of those people on the D book is the next Kobe campaign I can’t remember. Cooper Flagg is nice but him and Bron don’t even play the same way especially during Brons early years. Bron was way more downhill and explosive, Coop is more finesse , a little taller, and not as good a passer. There are other nba players that his gamestyle is more similar too. Zion they said was the next Bron, Ben Simmons, now this. Coop will have more of a Kd gamestyle than Bron if his 3ball gets more consistent better defensively though.

Whoever is the next injury prone aging star on the Lakers, I’d trade him for Cooper Flagg.

Windhorst just sniffed his new meal ticket

He may be right, but the gap between those three and Flagg is wider than the gap between Flagg and rookie Zion/Davis/Griffin/Carmelo/Durant

I don’t fuckin care, I want Luka back and until that time I will forever root against the Mavericks.

It’s what they were hoping for when they agreed to getting the top pick in exchange for giving luca to LA.

Hey Nico, we have someone you might be interested in, and maybe Giannis too.

I hate ESPN.

Cooper Flagg is a generational player. Proceeds to name at least 2 others in his generation.

Cooper has a very similar game to Tatum

LOL imagine if Cooper Flagg ends up better than Luka

Marvin Bagley over Luka Doncic…

No

Nico was right all along, no one saw the vision

Crazy but I see it. He’s needs to be more consistent tho. Needs more of Bron’s confidence and mentality