On today's show, Cooper Flag has key things he needs to improve going into this season, and the Mavericks are uniquely capable of helping him with every single one of them. I'll tell you why, and today's like to a map. Stop it! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go to the Dallas Mavericks. Cooper Flag will fly in Dallas. Dogs, all of us, all five. You are locked on Mass. Great, though. Your daily Dallas Mavericks podcast.

I was not. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network. I still can't live. Your team every day. I'm going to get a city like that. And welcome. You're Lockdown of the Dallas Mavericks. Your team every day. My name is Nick Engstead.

I'm the media member covering the Maverge for 10 years. Thanks for being in every day. Making Lockdown Maps, your very first listen. Starting the day with us here in the morning, then going to slightly early, then going to Lockdown Cowboys, then locked on Rangers, then locked on wherever college you went to in DFW, all that kind of stuff. Joining me, as always, the postgame prodigy

from the great slightly by us YouTube channel.

What you got for me slightly biased?

You said you're gonna ask me a mushrooms question?

Yeah, yesterday you were making me, you were making me interested about your mushrooms.

Basically, I've had this long theory that demons were, uh, when back in the day, thousands of years ago,

and people would just eat mushrooms off the ground and didn't know what they did,

they would see these things and they would call them demons.

And demons are actually interdimensional beings that you get access to via psychedelics.

It's a common theory.

Go look it up. You think it's real that people are? No, I don't think it's real. So you think they're seeing illusions? I'm open to a lot of different conclusions. There are some weird stuff with like Ayahuasca trips or everyone sees the same exact things. I've definitely heard about

those too. You've done it? No, I know some people that have. Lockdown's listening. My butt is clear.

Or maybe it's not because I haven't done it yet. There you go. Today's episode, we're talking about

Cooper Flagg. We're talking about his season going into this year.

I want to talk about what would impress you about Cooper Flagg's rookie season. What would make you disappointed in Cooper Flagg's rookie season? We'll also talk about lineups. We're interested to see around Cooper Flag this season because I think he's going to be the most interesting, fun part about this Maverick season. But let's start here. What does Cooper Flag need to improve on to be an all-NBA level player?

And I don't think we're talking about first year, right? I don't think he's David Robinson. I don't think he's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, right? But what does he have to improve on to get to that point? Because for me, the Mavericks are all in on and should be all in on this long-term

Cooper flag play. Developing him is your next thing. Anthony Davis, we just talked about him yesterday,

top 10 player in the NBA, I think, but not a star level player that you just completely go all in on

and he drags you to a championship.

I don't think he's at that point yet. I don't think he's at that point in his NBA career at this point. And so it's all about Cooper Flag going forward. And his development should be the number one thing. And so I think it is, I do agree with what Jason Kidd is going to do at the beginning of the season. far be it for me to agree with Jason Kidd, but put the ball in his hands and to help him improve in that area and to deal with NBA level defenses first. I think that is one thing he has to improve. His ball handling, we saw the ball handling at Summer League. There are some times when he struggled, even in college, there are times when you're like, all right, how is he going to create his own offense at the next level?

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