On today's show, the Dallas Mavericks mount a near comeback against the Oklahoma City Thunder and didn't look that bad in the game except Cooper Flagg did. So what do we take from this? I'll tell you. Today's Locked on Mavs. This is Cooper Flagg and you're listening to Locked on Mars. Don't. On them. Five. Explain me, sorry. All these changes, you know, I still got my dog Dwight Powell. You are locked on Mavs. great.

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You're not taking a moral victory from this game?

I would have if Koup played good or like if the comeback was coop related.

Mab's like the wizard.

The wizard's loss was like, well, that fourth quarter was falling from K. Moral victory in the Wizards lost, but not one in the O. OKC comeback. We'll talk about Cooper Flag's struggles. We'll talk about Anthony Davis. Honestly, in his struggles late in this game, I was sitting courtside, and I can tell you exactly how he was, how he's feeling during this. And we'll talk about PJ Washington. We'll talk about Jaden Hardy getting some minutes late. We'll talk about a lot of these things. And the Mavs lost to the OKC Thunder. The Mavs are 1 and 3 now in the season. It was 94 to 101. But the Mavericks at one point were down by 21 in this game, and it looked hopeless, right? Like Mavericks fans are turning this game off. They're like, I'm done.

I don't want to watch this.

I don't want to listen to this anymore.

I'm just over with this because the beginning of the season has been pretty rough for the Mavericks. And even the game they won against the Raptors, they have 129 points. And it was not one of those where you feel, all right, I'm feeling super great after this win.

I feel like the maps have figured out some stuff.

They fix some things, and boom, here we go.

This game... all right, I'm feeling super great after this win. I feel like the Mavs have figured out some stuff.

They fix some things, and boom, here we go. This game, first half was not bad. I was feeling pretty good. I was ready to go into this game against the Thunder, a team that has a really good defense. And yes, they're missing Caruso, they're missing Jailin Williams. They're missing a couple of guys. So are the Mavericks. Mavericks missed lively in this game obviously Kyrie's still out a couple of point guards still out

but you're going caruso, they're missing Jailud Williams, they're missing a couple of guys. So are the Mavericks. Mavericks missed lively in this game, obviously.

Kyrie's still out, a couple of point guards still out.

But going into this game, I was like, oh, this is going to be one of those games where if the Mavs don't start DeAngel Russell or even if they do, they may not be able to dribble against this team. They're just going to struggle to get the ball into any of their sets or into any kind of thing at all.

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