Cooper Flagg checks out with 36/9/6, the first teenager to ever have three consecutive 30 point games
Not gonna say I was a Flagg doubter, but he’s been much better than I ever expected him to be in his first year.
https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401810576
Got his teammates so many open looks but these guys can’t hit a 3.
its like nothing changed lmao
it’s like he never left
Everywhere I look… I see his face
Especially on /r/NBA today. :(
Baffling to have a roster full of NBA players that cannot shoot. It’s so funny watching teams actually knock down open shots lol.
Gabe Vincent for DLO who says no
Sure
Too much money, would push us over the second apron.
Tell ya what, I’m feeling generous. We’ll throw in Jaden Hardy for free.
Ain’t nobody want anyone on your roster
Yeah nobody wants anybody on the lakers but since I do feel bad for the beautiful city of LA, I, Mike Gansey, am willing to trade star player Nae’Quan Tomlin for one Luka Doncic
theres open looks and then theres rhythm. Just watch jokic. His passes are clean. Cooper will get there
If Coop can get Jokic passing, he seriously might end up being the second greatest small forward of all time.
Did you watch the game?
Hard to complain about the looks they were getting.
He could even be first depending on how his career goes.
I don’t ever wanna dethrone my king, but it is possible. If Dallas can build a winning roster around Flagg quickly unlike the Cavs with Bron, I can see it.
Flagg is the first rookie since Bron that has me watching all their games despite not being a fan of the team. Hope he continues to ball out and get better every year.
Flagg also has Kyrie coming back soon, who is a better player than anyone on LeBron’s early cav teams.
If by “soon” you mean next season, then yes.
Yeah, he’s not passing LeBron LMFAO
Out of your mind level comment
He would quite literally have to be the GOAT to surpass LeBron lol
It would be really impressive to get a career close to lebron in the era where parity seems to be an all time high tbh
Yeah it’s both. There’s a level of pass placement that shows that he’s not a PG and that will come with time. Getting the ball to your guy where they want the ball to be in rhythm. But there’s also the fact that he could have 1-2 more assists if they made some of those shots and it’d also open up the floor for him some more. I think they’ll fix the problem in the off-season since they have a new GM
except when they play against us… :‘(
I feel like I’ve heard this line before
This guy watched the game.
Could have been his first triple double
He’s so fucking good
x4
Nico in a bar somehwere telling some 70 yr old alcoholic he was right all Along
He’s gonna be the 70 year old alcoholic telling people he was right
About? AD rarely plays. Kyrie injured carrying all the offensive burden Luka was carrying. Cooper Flagg wasn’t a part of his “vision” and if he had ultimate sway after that trade I doubt he’d draft Cooper.
“See, this is why I took Silver’s deal to trade Luka to the Lakers for the #1 pick”
It would be really funny if the mavs win a ring with Flagg and the lakers never win one with Luka
ROTY
doing this shit as the 1st option without any consistent secondary scorer
idgaf what anyone else says, give lil bro the ultimately meaningless trophy
It is funny how ROTY matters for all of 1 year and then no brings it up ever again lol
Like fanbases will get into it over who should get it but after it happens no one cares
The Ben Simmons vs Donovan Mitchell roty race was all time beef between the fanbases
The LaMelo-Ant one was kinda heated too lol
To be honest I’m still a little miffed by that
Us Celtics fans were in on those talks in the playoffs too for Tatum lol
that ROTY can make or break a hall of fame career 😤
It looks good on career accolades.
It matters cause I mean most of the time ROTY goes to a tanking team so they only have the ROTY to look forward to not their 20% win team
It also matters because it’s really the only major NBA award that a player only has one chance to win.
Well, that’s how it works; it’s only available for that one year.
Some LeBron haters bring up Melo in messed-up stats for his ROTY
yeah, the stupid ones
Not just any secondary scorer…there’s not even anyone else on the team that can create their own shot besides Naji Marshall
don’t remind me bro, our offense is rage-inducing at times
It’s not even close, it’s just a great class
Yeah Nipple might be cooked
Stuck as 4th option behind Bridges 💔
He’s legitimately so good already.
People like to say the term “generational prospect” gets thrown around too often, and maybe it does, but it genuinely applied to Flagg and everyone who watched him in high school and college knew it. He had one of the highest floors I’ve ever seen from a prospect not named Lebron. Honestly even though Wemby has a higher ceiling, Flagg still had the higher day 1 floor. Such a complete player.
He went to the Olympics practice last summer to play with the reserve team and was reportedly the best player on the floor
A loss on top of it. Good job Coop and Tank Commander Caleb.
He’s only 19…wtf dude
Barely!
“Tatum is only 19” welcome back
We did it…
Was thinking of coROTY but I mean looking like he the sole ROTY atp
He will probably win. If kon knueppel gets 50/40/90 it will be close tho.
If Kon gets 50/40/90, I think it’s time to bring back Co-ROTY. No reason for one of them to get snubbed and the other doesn’t.
I’m sorry but no lmao if kon dropped 49 on coop this shit wouldn’t even be a convo Kon has crazy Pr lowkey
people have just been surprised by kon being this good which has greatly boosted opinion of him, coop was expected to be good by everyone but contrarians
vegas has coop as the roty leader still for a reason
Yeah I dont get how people think it would be a snub. One guy is putting up near 40 point triple doubles as the number one option while also immediately being a great defender. The other guy…..shoots 3s really well as the 3rd/4th option? There is no comparison.
It’s crazy lol if it was flipped there would not be a conversation at all
It’s not a snub if one of them is a lot better, which health permitting, Flagg is going to finish the season being.
It’s not something you can just make happen, the voting has to line up for it. The voters could collude to make it happen, but that would be really difficult to coordinate across a lot of people. The race should be pretty close though
He shoots a lot of 3s it’s going to be hard to reach 50% FG.
Kon has been fading recently compared to his early play, while Coop is heating up.
Flagg probably wins as long as it’s close due to being the higher pick and because of just how hyped he was. Either would be very well deserving if the other didn’t exist though, so can’t complain too much.
Flagg probably wins as long as it’s close due to being the higher pick and because of just how hyped he was.
Its not because he is putting up monster numbers, leading his team in points, rebounds, assists, and steals?
Top 3-4 in all the counting stats for all rookies? Leads Kon in all of those categories including overall FG percentage?
Or because he is an high level defender in his rookie year? and is breaking records left and right?
its because he is the first overall pick and “hyped”?
You clearly cannot read much at all because that is not what I said. To repeat: if Flagg and Knueppel is at least a close contest, Flagg will win because of his hype and draft status. I did not comment at all about how either player is actually performing. You also seriously underrate Knueppel and how historic what he’s doing is.
I dont even try to argue with randoms who give their shit opinion on how the only way Flagg would win in a close race is of his draft status and hype. Maybe he is just better?
Or because he’s a significantly better player still
At this point he’ll be a 25/6/6 guy at minimum next year lol
True heir of 27/7/7 statline
LeBron James and Cooper Flagg have the same amount of letters
They are also both born in December
Cooncidence? I think not..
forgetting an important ‘i’ in there 😭
Pretty darn impressive, especially because he also is younger than everybody else who put up similar numbers (other than LeBron):
he’s the 2nd youngest on there technically, what the actual fuck. the youngest listed is lebron so that basically makes cooper the youngest in some sort of sense because well, that’s lebron
Remember when people randomly decided he wasn’t that good before the draft
Mfs were saying number 6 in the next draft.
Mrs were saying that this week lol
Yeah the guy who was consensus number 1 for like 3 years and hooping with Team USA was suddenly not a generational prospect right before the draft lol
People would rather be right about predicting “busts” than prefer watching generational new talent. It’s bizarre
There are probably a bunch of r/NBA threads & comments from like the start of the season into early December that you can find about Cooper that honestly may go down as the most egregious embarrassing reactionary shit ever put into text on this website.
Which would put it well in the running for most embarrassing reactionary shit in the world
Please find some for me… I really need a good laugh
Really?
I guess it’s because he’s local but everyone here just assumed superstar.
playing at an all star level
not suprised tbh
GET COOP SOME HELP
They’re in street clothes
They’re in the ICU
We really got White LeBron before GTA VI.
Thank you coop for single handily saving my mavs fandom
Also might save the 2028 USA team
He’s going to be all-NBA next season it’s so obvious.
And people were saying he would go #6 in this year’s draft LMFAO. He’s head and shoulders above everyone in the 2026 draft. The best American rookie in ages.
It’s because he’s a lanky white kid from Maine, no other reason. Pretty idiotic.
He’s phenomenal
Black history month can’t catch a break
I’ll say it again, he’s the best rookie I’ve watched in my time (~8 years)
8yr olds are so good with computers these days.
You are 8 years old?
Googoo Gaga no I started watching when I was like 17
Somehow the Mavs lost all three of those games
I mean look at who is trotting out on the floor
Oh make no mistake I don’t blame him at all
No, I know. It’s just a hodgepodge of dudes.
Literally no one else helping but it’s all good, this is the right trajectory
Sucking this year is for the best for you guys. You don’t have first round picks for a while after this year so getting some kind of co star for Flagg is for the best
I couldn’t be happier tank + amazing flagg games is all I want in life
Naji Marshall and Max Christie have been awful these last few games
we have “basketball players” like miles kelly out there so it’s rough
Generational
Dallas got it’s cornerstone player, he’s gonna be a star
thanks u/heatfan
NO problem
Too bad Flagg would only be the 6th pick in the upcoming draft!
Idiots.
🤣
Yeah hes got roty
Mfs talking about Kirilenko ceiling, Flagg had his offensive bag when he was 15
Coops got the juice now
I’m biased as fuck and I love Kon but Flagg should win ROTY. He has led that team as a 19yr old with their best guys injured. Basically a three level scorer and solid defender already. Really impressive.
This feels like a preview of Sophomore Coop. Kinda like how Wemby was playing way better in the back half of his rookie year
You mean, the moment we started an actual point guard at point guard
Damn, I’m going to have to fill out that “I Didn’t Think Flagg Would Be That Good” form 😔
You just have to say
I pledge allegiance to the Flagg 🫡
Dude got pummeled tonight, had a shitty whistle, and just kept playing.
Could have easily been double the assists if his teammates knocked down open shots.
Excellent defense as well. The ceiling does not exist.
Am I way off thinking this guy could be an all star this year?
He should be
if he was in the east possibly, i don’t think he’s better than any of the players in the west that got in though
He’s better than chet I think, I may be wrong too though
I’m thinking he’s traded before the deadline. Pascal Siakam needs a new home
Future celtic showing out in front of the celtics. Jokes aside, ROTY fs!!
Reggie Miller was reeeally leaning into that all game.
he’s wearing green shoes because of the Celtics!!!
Everyone talking trash when I said he looked like the next Tmac offensively can eat eggs
I mean what’s so bad about eggs tho
He’s better than current Luka already.
Okay way too far but he’s great he’s not better than Luka already….
Luka Garza I agree
ight bru slow down
He meant Luka Garza ofc
what a bum trade him - Nico
It was such an awful trade yet it seems like it may work out for the Mavs
They got flagged eith the worst lottery odds possible with their own pick lol. Either rigged or straight up an almost impossible level of luck
Worked out either way 🤗
why didnt anyone ever mention this kid was going to be good?
Yeah, he does NOT wanna lose that ROTY award lmao. What an insane stretch of games.
He’s gonna be better than Luka😭😭😭
FUCKING TRADE EVERYBODY OVER THE AGE OF 25 PLEASE
Casual NBA fan here. How often do first picks in the NBA draft do good in terms of leading the ROTY?
Not bad for the #6 ranked prospect in the 2026 draft
he is scary
Mavs might have won the trade brochachos🥲
Not that surprising when a guy is this advanced already, teams adjust expectations fast and plan ahead
Well he’s going to be a future all star
captain obvious ass statement
*all nba
The lakers found their guy
This kid is diff can’t wait for him to be a laker in a few years time
Hope he liked how good the Celtics unis look in person and is getting ready to come back home and wear it in the garden.