Dallas Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg is retaining it actual after about as brutal of a begin to his NBA profession as potential.
Talking with reporters after Saturday’s defeat to the Detroit Pistons, Flagg was requested for his message to those that are involved about his very sluggish begin to his rookie season. Flagg responded by admitting that the NBA was a “powerful league.”
“It’s a troublesome league,” mentioned Flagg, per Mike Curtis of The Dallas Morning News. “It’s a transition. I haven’t made lots of pictures or been as environment friendly I might’ve wished to. However I’m gonna hold trusting the work. It’s nothing I believe they need to be nervous about. I’m not nervous about something.”
The 18-year-old Flagg, who was the No. 1 total choose on this 12 months’s draft, is a pure ahead. However he has began at level guard to start his NBA profession with accidents up and down the Dallas roster, most notably with Kyrie Irving nonetheless recovering from a torn ACL.
In consequence, Flagg’s numbers have been predictably uneven (13.8 factors, 6.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.8 turnovers per sport on 37/29/100 taking pictures splits). Flagg has even gotten the meme remedy on-line over some of his rougher individual performances.
In equity to Flagg, he was put in an unimaginable scenario to start with. The Mavericks landed him proper after they commerce away a well-liked and transcendent franchise celebrity in Luka Doncic, and expectations for Flagg have been sky-high from Day 1, particularly from a disgruntled Dallas fanbase. If the proficient 6-foot-9 ahead merely continues to place within the work, the tides ought to flip for him earlier than too lengthy.
