As a Celtic fan, it must be hurting as Cooper is catching up to tatum as the best 19 year old

The Mavs really got another chance with a superstar talent

Hopefully they don’t Nico it up this time lol

Doesn’t help that Kon’s been slumping pretty hard the past few weeks when it comes to his peripheral stats.

every now and then, the broadcast will show a young fan switching jerseys midway through a game after having some buyers remorse. a bunch of nephews are about to do that tonight

It’s like the Parks & Rec burger cookoff scene. Stat geeks came in with their eFG & TS% and whatever else, but you then just watch Cooper play for 5 minutes and instantly realize “oh he’s better”

Kon is great but its always been Cooper

Cooper would’ve been the pretty clear roty if he didn’t get injured in the middle of his hot streak. It took him awhile to settle in again.

Someone asked me yesterday who I thought would win and I said it’s gotta be Kon and now I’m having the same experience 

He got shit back when he did it with Giannis too

And now his 3s are dropping. This is also the WORST he’s going to be lmao.

It turns out Jason Kidd is better at basketball than us random people on reddit

2 birds with one stone. Ethically tank while developing the handles of your franchise cornerstone.

Yeah I said it here at the time, they should care about his development more than winning, similar to Wemby being used differently in his rookie year, taking all those 3s.

Yep he’s at -250 now, I believe he was +200 yesterday

High bar due to playoff heroics but Coop might be a legit Luka replacement in the regular season scoring like this as a teenager plus being a better defender

LeBron absolutely never did that 

Edit: just looked it up, no one has ever done it before 

Last game he had 51-6-3 so he did not put up that stat line in back to back games

I know just the point side is since AI

He didn’t drop 45/5/5 in back to back games 

They said Iverson on TV.

Since Wilt in like 1960

Do you mean he averaged that in back to back games?

It’s hard to fathom anyone that would argue that he’s a stat padder if they actually watch him play, because almost every single bucket he scores, he creates himself. I know it’s a kind of a meme to say a player is ethical or unethical in their scoring, but if there is an ethical hooper right now, it is Cooper flag. And he stacking big games one after another and if you watch them every bucket is ethical.

Um Im guessing you didn’t see Kon lead his team to the win tonight over the wolves?????

even in the 50 point game the Mavs were chipping into the lead during his scoring outburst.

Just because the Mavs suck doesn’t mean Coop isn’t really good. It just means they suck. But they are also hurt and not playing optimal lineups. Tanking/development.

Kinda hard to stat pad when you don’t have a single teammate able to help set you up

Flagg doesn’t get those open looks that come from floor spacing and an offense that can find the open man.

Fuck Nico for building this pile of crap. We’d be one of those classically bad teams with 15 wins

Yeah I was thinking he would be like a dude that does everything while avg 25 pts in his prime. When a guy puts up consistent 30-40bombs you start to see the potential for 30 pt scorer and scoring titles

It’s incredible how strong he already is at 19. And his floater and midrange game is fun to watch, really unorthodox finishes.

Is that why he dropped 50 on Paolo

Cooper Flagg was born after LeBron had achieved the following:

Rookie of the Year, All-NBA First Team, All-NBA Second Team, 2x NBA All-Star, All-Star Game MVP, Olympic Bronze Medal

He’s very like Lebron in his skillset and size, only Cooper entered the league with good shooting already, and that took Lebron a couple years.

Kon had a stinker tonight. Cooper might’ve just won it lol.

I think he might have just won it

If he keeps balling out while Kon keeps laying eggs ROY is his.

Crazy that he missed almost a month of basketball and might only be behind in the ROY race by a hair.

Wemby is already up.

Wemby’s a sure fire DPOTY and in MVP conversations lol

Cooper might be next up, but Wembys already there

Why can’t they both be the next guy up?

Wemby could’ve been DPOY and MVP in the same season at 22 lol. Hes already up

luckily theres more than one good player in the nba

Wemby isn’t next up, he’s already up

Top 3 in the league, DPOY and should be the MVP

Are you insane, wemby rookie season stats clear lmao

Recency bias is a hell of a drug

Rage bait used to be believable

I don’t think he’ll be more impactful than Wemby tbh.

Wemby’s too unique and difficult to counter/replicate. But I do believe that Cooper is probably gonna be one of the next iconic superstars in the league. One of the players that everyone views as the “face of the league” for a decade or more possibly. He’s that good already.

Fam. Wemby is a top MVP candidate already. He aint next, he here.

I don’t know if it’s a hot take but I think Cooper will win the scoring title in his 3rd season making him the youngest ever scoring champ (surpassing KD).

His kitchen sink +/- unfortunately not as good as Kons tonight 

It’s actually wild how many of these “advanced stats” have made it into sports discourse when most of them are made up shit that are absolutely AWFUL if you have any sort of knowledge base in statistics or mathematics. Most of them don’t even have openly available calculus or white papers proving their worth, yet got a whole generation apparently clamoring onto them instead of using their eyes any.

I’m CRYING !!! This made me chuckle.

what in the hell are you talking about 😭

Just looking at the stats, his numbers are better than Kon in literally everything other than 3 pointers.

I wonder what the stat is for Kon on unassisted scoring as opposed to Flagg..

Kon gets some really clean looks

Being the guy when you team sucks is actually a lot better to get counting stats.

No real person thinks that Kon is better than Flagg

Don’t you fucking get us started!

Every 40 pt Flagg game is a stitch on the wound…we aren’t even close to forgiving that debacle!

Man, Luka is Luka. He inherited the franchise from Dirk. He’s supposed to retire as a Mavs.

Flagg being a good player helps a lot but it still stings.

And we have a good team around Luka. And it has a good vibes.

But I just hope Flagg continues to play like this and we add another top rookie next draft class.

I want to see Mavs in the playoffs.

Flagg is a much more well rounded player than Luka and his play style is much easier to build around because he can play off ball and is plus defender unlike Luka.

It’s funny to say now but in the long run that trade is going to be a good one for the Mavs.

Dallas got bailed out massively lol. Flagg at 20 years old next year might already an all-nba caliber player. Insane.

Hes absolutely going to be the better player

Kon is contending for ROY of the year because his shooting splits and 3s are as a rookie are at a rate rivaling All-Star level players.

Not to mention he raised the ceiling of the Hornets team, I think we need to respect both guys as a great players instead of arguing who is worthy of ROY.

Hawks just sittin there ‘why he say fuck me for?’

The league is insanely stacked and we get more studs with massive potential in the next draft like Dybansa. The NBA will have more than onee all-nba caliber talent for every team in just a few years

In no way is he better than Wemby but he’s better than rookie Wemby was. rookie Wemby had flashes but looked tentative. Flagg looks comfortable. Like I feel he could give you 30 in a playoff game. Would absolutely get swept as a team but he’s giving you 30 in at least one.

I’ve heard this before with Luka.

Hornets fans downvoting this post probably

The only fans that would debate it are Hornet’s fan. 

Let’s not glaze too much that’s the fakest 3 seed of all time lol. 2/3rds of their team is injured. Dudes were feasting on a team with no depth and only a 41 year old star

I’d be stoked for them to get co-ROTY, especially since Kidd had the same.

Only cuz lottery was rigged

He straight up looks ambidextrous out there sometimes