Cooper Flagg is tearing it up right now in the NBA for Dallas Mavericks. He recently scored a career high 49 points against the Charlotte Hornets and then put up a game high 34 points to push the Houston Rockets to the limited. He also had 12 rebounds and 5 assists in that game.
These stats should be enough to make people think that he is the best teenager in the world right now. Holding your own against the “one percent” of basketball is no easy feat. It makes you special.
Well, former Mavericks player Jamal Mashburn is not that convinced. He even suggested that had Flagg decided to stay in college, he will not even crack the Top 5.
Who’s going to be Top 1? Caleb Wilson of North Carolina Tar Heels.
“Just from a skillset and also a level of where they can get to, I personally think Caleb Wilson is going to take a humongous jump at the pro level. I think he’s going to be a superstar,” Mashburn said on TNT Sports.
“Cooper Flagg has some holes in his game.”
The four other players he was talking about were Kansas Jay Hawks’ Darryn Peterson and BYU Cougars AJ Dybantsa who just had a showdown on Friday, Cam Boozer from Flagg’s alma mater Duke University, and Koa Peat of the Arizona Wildcats.
Cooper Flagg can be an All-Star
That’s a super wild and hot take. People thought Mashburn, who became an All-Star while playing for Dallas in 2003, was on something for such statement.
Flagg is being viewed as the the real deal and a future superstar. He currently ranks second in the Kia Rookie Ladder although it is because of the games he missed and was named to the Rising Stars in the All-Star Game two weeks from now.
The All-Star Game might be out of reach right now due to the Mavs’ bad record but his numbers are up there with the best of the best.
He is averaging 19.8 per game in 34 minutes and is among the most consistent player for Dallas.
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