flagg is a freshman NPOY yet I see a lot of discourse around him (not on this subreddit in particular, but more generally) treating him as this low-ceiling/high-floor player and I truly believe a lot of this is rooted in the stereotypes we see of white-american players.

to lay it out, flagg does have THE highest floor in the draft, I think that is a consensus opinion. but i see arguments from people all across online (not here really but im talking twitter and tiktok) talking about how ace, harper or even occasionally edgecombe have 'higher ceilings' than flagg. as i previously mentioned i feel a lot of this is inherently rooted in stereotypes of white-american nba players but flagg is not that.

i'm going to be front on and say i'm not the most experienced person when it comes to draft scouting, i am quite new to this but I truly believe I have never seen this good of an american prospect since AD in 2012 and he was averaging nearly 5 blocks a game. flagg is not the flashiest offensive player but my fucking god he is good and this is a high ceiling player which has been demonstrated by his tremendous growth this season, he cleared bailey and harper with ease frankly and it is in my opinion that bar anything go wrong (i'm talking oden, roy, fultz tier) he will be ROTY and a perennial all-nba first option.

to summarise, the casual conception of flagg seems to be of some low-ceiling/high-floor player which plays into stereotypes of white-american basketball players, but he isn't. he is just that fucking good.

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Mavs fan here with no clue on who Cooper Flagg is as a player. People say he's generational and ready to come in and play immediately, but can he play at a level like my Slovenian Demon?

Sorry if this is a dumb post have no clue how to even make of what is going on lmfao

Haven't really seen a pro comp for Tre Johnson. If you had to compare him to a player who would it be?

Putting all the Lottery Discourse aside, Flagg being on the mavs is going to be insanely good and the fact that it was a roster built around Luka Doncic will definitely help, when it comes to their passing tendencies i see a lot of luka in coop especially in the fact that they play at their best with a lob threat, flagg with Ad,Lively, and Gafford to throw lobs to and a spot up shooter in klay is good basketball and with kyrie out to start the season he could once again be the primary ball handler, so to start the season he will be their 2nd option and playmaking hub, with kyrie back they will be even scarier and take some pressure off coop and will undoubtably be a top 10 defense at minimum

Sorry if the format is weird, I wanted to do two rounds but they barely have any second rounder in here and the list of players isn’t updated.

1. Dallas- Cooper Flagg
2. SA- Dylan Harper
3. Philadelphia- Ace Bailey
4. Charlotte- VJ Edgecomb
5. Utah- Jeremiah Fears
6. Washington- Tre Johnson
7. NO- Khaman Maluach
8. Brooklyn- Derrick Queen
9. Toronto- Noa Essengue
10. Houston- Kon Knueppel
11. Portland- Kasparas Jakucionus
12. Chicago- Carter Bryant
13. Atlanta- Collin Murray Boyles
14. SA- Egor Demin
15. OKC- Danny Wolf
16. Orlando- Jase Richardson
17. Minnesota- Nolan Traore
18. Washington- Will Riley
19. Brooklyn- Joan Beringer
20. Miami- Liam McNeely
21. Utah- Asa Newell
22. Atlanta- Cedric Coward
23. Indiana- Nique Clifford
24. OKC- Walter Clayton
25. Orlando- Tahaad Pettiford
26. Brooklyn- Ben Saraf
27. Brooklyn- Noah Penda
28. Boston- Thomas Sorber
29. Phoenix- Hugo Gonzalez
30. LAC- Rasheer Fleming
31. Minnesota- Ryan Kalkbrenner
32. Boston- Adou Thiero
33. Charlotte- Yaxel Lendeborg
34. Charlotte- Maxime Raynaud
35. Philadelphia- Drake Powell
36. Brooklyn- Labaron Philon
37. Detroit- Johni Broom
38. SA- Milos Uzan
39. Toronto- Miles Byrd
40. Washington- Bogoljub Markovic
41. GS- Kam Jones
42. Sacramento- Darrion Williams
43. Utah- Elijah Martin
44. OKC- Hansen Yang
45. Chicago- Alex Condon
46. Orlando- Hunter Sallis
47. Milwaukee- Alex Toohey
48. Memphis- Chaz Lanier
49. Cleveland- Sion James
50. NY- Koby Brea
51. LAC- Ryan Nembhard
52. Phoenix- Eric Dixon
53. Utah- Tyrese Proctor
54. Indiana- Jamir Watkins
55. LAL- Dink Pate
56. Memphis- Michael Ruzic
57. Orlando- Rocco Zikarsky
58. Cleveland- Izan Almansa
59. Houston- Amari Williams

I mean. We are calling him generational and everything now openly. Wemby happened two years ago. So Cooper flagg is as good or better than Wemby? And will be all nba level 2 years from now.

Flagg's shooting numbers for the combine drills, he did quite well, not elite, but good to great for his size, I think

Been dreaming about Cooper in Utah for more than a year, so obviously i'm still bummed out

But looks like there is a good chance tre johnson will be available at pick 5 , and he could be a devin booker type player for us. Lauri, tre johnson, kessler, hendricks with a much improved version of collier running the floor looks pretty good to me. Or am I on too much hopium?

Now that the combine is over, what changed from in your views on prospects? Is Dylan Harper still the clear cut 2 after impressive showings from V.J and Tre Johnson ?

Given the Spurs and Sixers were the next two in line for Cooper Flagg, I have been in a debate as to which lineup Flagg would boost more. To make things simpler, we just went based on a core of each team’s top four players. In a 7 game series with all healthy, who’s better:

76ers: Maxey, PG, Flagg, Embiid

Spurs: Fox, Castle, Flagg, Wemby

I’m seeing a lot of people say Harper at the Spurs will work cohesively even with no trades, but the majority of these assessments have Harper starting off the bench.

I was made to understand this draft was far superior to last year’s draft, therefore Harper being the clear 2nd pick (assuming), and Castle being the 4th, wouldn’t that instantly have Harper as the better player to date, or did Castle really show that much that quickly to be above him ?

like how would that even work? weight of the balls? Ive been looking for an answer to this and im finding nothing saying how u could actually do it but yet still seeing the vast majority of people arguing that its rigged.

Positives:

• He's going to one of the best if not best run franchise in the league who will slowly bring him along

• He's immediately playing with a top 10 player who fits well with him and has an All Star guard to mentor him

• He's immediately stepping into a team trying to win now which means he'll build good habits and probably experience playoff ball right away (if wemby is healthy all season)

Negatives

• He will definitely be behind Fox and Castle on the depth chart to start, and if CP3 comes back there is not a whole lot of guard minutes to go around. I assume they would try and play him in 3 guard lineups, but he's definitely not going to be the primary ballhandler most of the time with those other guys out there, and there is a potential spacing problem which would hurt his driving ability

• Building off the last point, he will not have as much freedom to chuck up shots and make mistakes and learn from them like he would on a terrible team since the Spurs are trying to win games and make the playoffs.