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Today's episode, I've got eight moments from the first preseason game. Going back and watching some of the film and I was like, all right, let's dig into some of these. Let's see how they happened. Let's see what they mean. And so we'll dig into some of those. Cooper Flagg's passing, Lively's passing,

Ad, and D. Angel, Russell, had a moment I want to talk about.

There's a couple things about the defense. some of those. Cooper flags passing, Lively's passing, AD and DeAngel, Russell had a moment I

want to talk about. There's a couple things about the defense. I think we figured out a way

the map's defense is going to be scary and there's one specific play that made me think about that.

And then the map signed Delano Banton today. Mavs signed a new player. Two-way spot is still open.

Delano Banda is not eligible for it. What's going to happen with that spot? And then

the Mavs guards, none of them played, none of the third string guards played in the game.

Where do we stand with those guys? Let's talk about that. But let's start here.

The first preseason game, yes, they played against the Oklahoma City Thunder's third string guys. So I'm not going to try to take too much of the competitiveness out of it. I'm looking for actions. I'm looking for things that this team is going to be about, things that they said they were going to do and that they went out and did. Things that I was questioning about the team and if they proved those things

or if they made me question them more. I'm looking for those things in a game like this.

And it was fun, good vibes, feeling good about seeing Cooper Flagg out there, seeing a lot of

like social media posts about how Cooper Flagg looked like the star out there. You know, showing the

threes that he hit, showing the block off the backboard,

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