On today's show, Cam Boozer, he's not my number one pick.

But some people say he's the obvious choice. Who's right? I'll tell you. Today's Lockdown Mavs. This is Cooper Flagg, and you're listening to Lockdown Mall. So, all of them, all of time. I think that's a good question. Good morning, Isaac. All these changes. You know, I still got my dog Dwight Powell. You are off on that.

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It's part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Your team every day. And welcome. You were locked on to the Dallas Mavericks. Your team every day. My name is Dick Engstead. Joining me, as always, the post-game prody, what did you see from the Dallas Maverick? Tonight's slightly biased. Jeez. Is there anything? I mean, there's always something. Just not something you want to talk about. I'm telling you right now. There's not always something. Today's episode, we will touch on the Mavs versus the Timberwolves game. I want to talk about the Timberwolves. Are they a real threat in the West? Are they a real threat out there? We'll talk about them. But I want to start here because Cam Booser is out now of the NCAA tournament. Duke loses again in a fashion that just, I mean, blew my mind the other night. I see that Yukon shot go in. And you and I and Isaac have had these back and forth where you're like, Camboozer is the obvious number one pick. And I think that's what a lot of people have said. Look at the, look at the statistics. Look at what he's done in college. It's just unprecedented, unmatched what he's's done and I'm still on AJ to

I'm still with AJ to Bonza I think if it was number one pick right now I think I

think I would still pick AJ but the case for Cam Booser number one overall right

now to fix everything we just watched with this Mavericks team is what well

it's just having another winning basketball player on the floor who playmates

has a good size, can shoot threes, competes on the glass, generates extra possessions for

your team.

I really think that's it.

You know, the more smart players on your roster,

the better not saying that some of these guys on the team aren't smart or anything like that.

Don't aren't high IQ basketball players.

But, yeah, I think that's the argument. I think he's probably the highest floor raiser in the draft, I think is probably pretty fair to say.

Yeah, that's the thing that the Mabbs need, honestly. You're looking at this roster right now, they need somebody to raise the floor, to make plays, to be that kind of fulcrum focal point.

I don't know that Cooper Flagg is going to be the, like, number one hub offensive, like, generator that the Mabs are going to need to create an offense out of nothing.

Like Luca obviously became that. We've seen several players in the NBA become that.

But even like Anthony Edwards, who we just saw tonight, is not really that.

Can do a ton of things. It's an awesome player.

But it's not like your number one can do everything, create an offense out of nothing

type guy. There's just very few guys in the NBA that can do that. But Camboozer is sort of a guy like that. If he hits his highest peak, he becomes a guy that makes a game like this a little bit more easy for everybody else. It creates for others and all that. So I kind of get your point. I just I can't pass a 610 wing that can kind of create for himself at a high level, get his own shot, do all that. And I'm really worried about the Cambooser. He just tries to bully ball guys. And it works in college, but I don't know if he gets enough switches in the NBA to just like punish guys in that way. And that's where I'm kind of stuck with him. I mean, that's fair. He didn't have a very promising tournament or really conference tournament either. Like if you're a Cambooz or a tractor, I think you've seen things in the past couple of weeks that makes you feel vindicated. I would say like all of the top guys are just a little sketchy. You know, AJ DeBonte hadn't had a block in a calendar month.

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