Anthony Davis SIDELINED with Eye Injury?! | Dallas Mavericks’ Cooper Flagg Ready to DOMINATE Summer?

Anthony Davis SIDELINED with Eye Injury?! | Dallas Mavericks’ Cooper Flagg Ready to DOMINATE Summer?

on today’s show. Anthony Davis, what are our expectations for him after this new injury, surgery, whatever he’s got coming up? And the Mavericks are already holding Cooper Flag back from his full potential. Talk about that on more today’s lock. Stop it. Stop. The number one pick will go to the Dallas Mavericks. Cooper Flag will fly in Dallas. You are locked on math. Your daily Mavericks podcast. part of the locked on podcast network. Your team everyday. I’m going to give a city like back and welcome. You were locked on of the Dallas Mavericks your team every day. My name is Dick Angstead media member covering the Dallas Mavericks for 10 years. Thanks for being here every making lockdown maps your first listen. Join me for the great Slightly Bias YouTube channel, The Postgame Prodigy. What you got for me, Slightly Bias? I I’ve started to, you know, feel for any injury news. So, uh, just thinking about my guy AD and, you know, recovery brothers. That’s right. You get naps. You getting naps in recovery. Getting all took a three-hour nap earlier. My doctor’s like, “If you want if you need to sleep, sleep.” That’s what my doctor said. So, I said, “All right.” Hey, there you go. Take it. That’s right. Do what the do what the doctor says. Anthony Davis is going to do that. We’re going to talk about that. We’re going to talk about some expectations for Anthony Davis this year. And then I went to summer league practice today. Heard from Cooper Flag, heard from coach uh Broghammer, heard from all kinds of people. And the Mavericks, Cooper Flag is is proven to be a sicko and he’s making me more excited about the Mavericks right now. And so we’ll talk about all that, but let’s talk let’s start with this slightly. I think the biggest news today is that Sham Shirania like kind of out of nowhere, which I guess this is going to be the norm with Anthony Davis sometimes. Sean Sher reports. Dallas Mavericks all-star Anthony Davis underwent a procedure to repair a detached retina he suffered during the season. Sources tell ESPN Davis played through multiple hits to the face last year. He is expected to be healthy for next training camp. I’m going to preface this by saying I’m not a doctor. Talk to some that are talked to some that are. And this is weird. This seems weird to me. Uh it, you know, a detached retina can be as like as benign as like some blurry vision and just some like some uncomfortable uncomfortability in your eye. It could be all the way up to blindness, you know, like there is a spectrum of what this could be in so many different ways. I I reached out to Brian Sudter who does the great, you know, YouTube channel. He’s a sports medical doctor we we have on all the time. And he said it just is. He said it is weird that it’s happening now that they’re doing this procedure now. But he said it could just be a delayed diagnosis. They could not have known. It may not have been as serious. You know, like that kind of stuff. It’s it is a very strange thing. Somebody in our uh you know lockdown maps listener reached out to us via text and said, “I used to work in an eye clinic. If I was if if it was actually detached during the season, he should have gotten taken care of because more hits can make it worse. So that’s not great.” He said it’s not a painfully terrible s a terribly painful surgery. You have to lay down on your face down for x amount of time. He said I’ve seen people play face people say stay face down for over two weeks. Just never moving. I guess not. Oh my god. Like cuz you have to like keep your eyes like like looking at the ground. Yeah. Yeah. And Yeah. You have to stay face down for over two weeks. That is absolutely insane. What would you even do for two weeks? You’re you’re just held up with an ankle right now and you’re going crazy a little bit. I mean, that sounds actually terrible cuz I imagine you can’t you probably they don’t want you watching TV. They don’t want you doing any of that stuff. If you think about it, they probably don’t want you looking at any bright lights. If you’re dealing with that right now and if you’re Anthony Davis, uh you could listen to the audio program on on Apple, Spotify. That’s true. I’d just be going through I’d be listening to the podcast of topics I didn’t even care about. YouTube music, all that kind of good stuff. But uh with Anthony Davis though, this is it’s interesting. You want to wildly speculate and be like, well that’s why he’s been struggling to shoot from from three. It’s like he had had struggles last last season. But I think to me what I took away from this is Anthony Davis did put it all out on the on the line last year. Like played through injuries, came tried to come back early. Like I it’s admirable to see him do that for this franchise that he just got dropped into. Didn’t ask for it. didn’t ask for all the stuff that came with it with him being in that trade and all that. And like honestly respect the guy because dang like he put it all out on the line. This is another way where he probably had some uncomfortability with his eye, didn’t really know what it was and just kept playing through it. Yeah. I mean this is why I mean I got a ton of respect for the dude. He thrust it into a impossible to win situation for him and you know I thought I thought he played well and I you know uh I’m excited to see him as a member of the Mavericks moving for 40. know, it’s not his fault. He didn’t make this trade happen or anything like that. So, I I never really appreciated some of the some of the stuff I saw going his way never really felt fair to me whatsoever. So, yeah. I mean, we knew with the uh with the stomach thing that he had, the abdominal thing that he was dealing with, um him him, you know, it’s an interesting thing because, you know, Lakers fans have even told me this that yeah, he gets hurt a lot. Yes, he misses time. Yes, he goes down with apparent injuries, you know, frequently during games. Uh, but he does he does play through injuries and he does try to be out there and he does, you know, uh, go 100% to get out on the floor. So, I I’ve never really doubted that. And this one’s just this one’s just interesting because the reporting on it, you know, I I just think Shams is usually sensationalist with this type of stuff. Um, you know, remember what was it? The Derrick Lively injury. Didn’t he all but say he was out for the rest of the season or exom? I forgot. one of the Mavs injuries. He said he was done for the season and then Oh, yeah. It was I think it was EXO where we just expected him to not play and then all of a sudden he was back again. So, right. So, and then he had the Aaron Gordon grade two hamstring strain and then he played the next day. U Yeah. Yeah. So, I think it’s he’s can be a little sensationalist with this stuff cuz my understanding is if it was a full detached retina that happened during the season that they would have had to have gotten it fixed within days or else you’re talking about full like blindness in the eye entirely is what how I was seeing it described. Do you think shooting with one eye is different than shooting with both your eyes functioning? Have you Have you ever done that? Your depth perception is all perception is terrible. I mean, yeah, it’s um I mean, who knows? Maybe maybe he comes out next year to shooting lights out and it’s like, yeah, I just couldn’t really see one. I mean, as he goes 40% three-point shooter, but if he shoots 40% from three, honestly, the Mavericks are title contenders. Like, okay, if Anthony Davis shoots 40% from three on the season, I’ll donate $1,000 to a charity of Anthony Davis show. I’ll d I’ll double it. There you go. to Anthony. We’ll donate it to Comedy Central for Anthony Davis’s next prank war special. Mind you, his career high from three is 34%. What was it in the bubble playoffs? Bubble playoffs. It was 38, but I mean, still, we’re getting there. Bubble playoffs was the mid-range. The mid-range was like automatic. It was. And that that’s that’s the the swing skill that I think is is interesting for him. But yeah, with Anthony Davis, I just think that’s that’s my takeaway is just we we’ll see on that. And you just hope he gets healthy through through the offseason. Like this is another thing and we really I really hope he’s healthy going into the season because if he’s not, you know, you start the season with basically like Cooper Flag with some some good role players, but like Flag is then the focus of your team for sure. It’s a very different team than if it’s Anthony Davis at full strength coming back feeling motivated. I mean, this won’t be a good team if AD’s hurt to start the season. Like, it just won’t be. That’s just the truth. So, I mean, they’ll be competitive. I think it’ll be one of those things where you’re competitive until the last like five minutes and then games get blown because who’s going to step up in that in that moment? Who takes pressure off of who? Because Anthony Davis would take pressure off of Cooper Flag, take pressure off Daniel Russell. I just So, I mean, knock on wood. I don’t know what I’m not a not like you said, I’m not a doctor. I don’t uh What could I’m not a doctor. So, forgot I had this. I don’t know. It’s amazing what could happen for him to not be ready by training camp. Like from everything I read. Yeah. Everything I read and people were saying that this is like kind of like what you were saying a pretty pretty straightforward procedure that you recover from like kind of quickly. Well, yeah. And and we have months, right? I mean, it’s July, August, September. I mean, we got we got a couple months. Yeah. Maybe like, you know, so I’m not I’m not being put that I’m not putting that energy in the universe. He’ll be back in No. Well, and and the report. You want to know what my prediction is? We’ll start the season or we’ll get to training camp. I’ll be like, “Oh, yeah. Remember that eye surgery?” Like, it’ll just be one of those things. Oh, yeah. It’s going to be a footnote on the Anthony Davis story for the Mavericks. I mean, the Sham’s report specifically says he is expected to be healthy for next training camp. So, yeah. Great. I mean, and that’s so I guess we we learned something. It changes not that much. Maybe changes my respect for him, right? Like that he played through something else through all this and through last season. I just wonder how it happened if if maybe smacked to the head a bunch of sounds to the head. Yeah. But I’m wondering when did they decide like, “All right, maybe we should look into this, you know, if it was just like this lingering eye pain and then they were like, “All right, maybe there’s something more to this than we thought.” Or did they know and they’re like, “Hey, you’re going to have to get surgery on this at some point.” And then this was just when they hammered it out. Like I I’m interested by that. If I was really good at this job, I would come out and be like, Nico Harrison putting the players on the line with the training staff that wasn’t ready and prepared, that wasn’t qualified. You just start going off on do that. They’re already doing that on Twitter. I I mean, they’re good at their jobs. You get you get you get paid now on Twitter. The real question The real question in all this for Anthony Davis slightly, does he need to go Goggles? Do we need full Kareem goggles now? Goggles? What about just like an eye patch? Just do they have clear eye patches? Just like I just need to protect this one eye. Did he give me a clear eye patch? A clear eye patch. I’m sure they could admit one. Someone is listening to the show being like, “Did these guys just talk about an eye for Hey, they uh somebody somebody in my chat today said that uh Dwight Pal needs to teach the team how to take hits to the face safely. like how how uh uh quarterback coaches will bring in baseball players to teach quarterbacks how to slide. They need Dwight Pal. 30 minutes 30 minutes of the first practice of the season. Ryan Nhard did mention he’s like I know you know I know of Dwight Pal Dwight Pal from the Canada stuff. I haven’t played with him but I’m I’m excited to learn from him. And that’s probably one that’s probably one of the things that he was excited to learn to learn is how to take a hit. That I wasn’t expecting to hear that. Dwight Pal shout out from the rookies. It’s like, “Yeah, I’m excited to play with Dwight.” Well, they’re both team c they’re both team Canada, guys. I know, but that would be hilarious if Flag said that. If Flag is like, I’m like, Dwight Pal’s a guy that I’ve looked up to for a long time. Dwight was also working out in the corner during during practice today. So, just like sometimes I’m like, does he live here? He just come in the team in a lot of ways. What is it? Fourth longest tenured player in the league, I think. The whole league. Yep. Something like that. It’s like Steph Draymond. uh Yiantis and and beed him foul who was in the Rondo trade coming up. I went to practice today. 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Any rumor that I ever hear or see, I’ll send it to you guys. And I sent a bunch of notes after practice today. And one of those things that I sent to that text line is that Cooper Flag, according to the MAP Summer League coach, who’s assistant coach for the Mavericks, Josh Brockhammer, said that Cooper Flag on July 4th, they had to keep they had to kick him out of the gym. They had to they had to keep him out of the gym on July 4th and tell him to go home cuz he was trying to work out on July 4th. Love that. Cooper Flag is a full sicko. I mean, he’s clearly not a patriot. You think so? Is that what we’re That take away from this? That’s the takeaway. Cooper flag communist anti-American. Heard I heard he brought his own projector and he was going to play Independence Day while he was working while he was working out of the facility. Yeah, that that’s actually the the the hidden story was that he had a bunch of fireworks on him and he wasn’t allowed in the facility. Yeah, you can’t set him you can’t set him off. Uh so coach said he’s one of the first guys in the gym. You know, we’ve had to make him sit down on July 4th just because he wanted to be in here working already. You talk about his work ethic, talk about how much he wants to get better, how much he, you know, he just loves being out there. And that’s what you want out of out of the best player on your team eventually. Yeah. I mean, from all of the draft leadup and everything, that was like a lot of people I talked to and stuff was like his motor was like the number one most exciting thing about him. All the physical traits and everything, but he just plays 110% every second he’s on the court and just endless and relentless. So, that’s not really surprising to me. I mean, look, a lot of this is PR like, you know, a lot of But it really h But it really happened. Right. Right. Right. Right. And that’s good. I mean, uh, hey, hey, Cooper, can you show up to the practice facility doors and just knock on it for a social video that we’re about to do on July 4th? You could do it on July 3rd. We’ll tell everybody it’s July 4th just to make it seem like you’re really locked in. Absolutely genius. If that’s I mean, I’m here for that. That’s the type of propaganda that I’m here for. But no. Uh, yeah. I mean, if it feels good, you know, we’ll never have to question Cooper Flags commitment or anything like that. That’s from what I can gather that’s what everybody has said about him. Duke coaches, Duke teammates, anyone who’s ever been around him. So that makes me that makes me excited because even, you know, it’s one thing to hear like this guy’s a this guy’s in the gym 24/7, you know. Yeah. He’s a big gym rat. He’s the first guy in, last guy out. Um, but you know, going back to him in in high school and where he was at Duke and then throughout the year at Duke, you you can see him in real time getting better like quickly and learning things quickly and being good at skills and good in roles that weren’t really expected out of him that early, especially like Duke. Like him becoming a 30% usage guy at Duke was not was a surprise to a lot of people. Like that was a huge growth and he was handling the ball a lot that he he had a high usage and 40% from 32. like that was just indicators of massive growth for him. So, you see it like you see the improvement. So, um I mean it’s just I’m so excited to watch this dude play basketball, man. If he fails, it’s not going to be because he didn’t try, right? And because he didn’t try to get better and because he didn’t work on it and because he didn’t, you know, assess what he needs to work on and all that kind of stuff that right, he’s going to put the work in. And I think that’s exciting for a player you’re going to build around. Yeah. And I mean, that’s like you said, that’s that’s that’s what you want. I mean, that’s what you want your leader to be. That’s what not that he’s your leader immediately, but that’s and in the future that’s what who you want your leader to be. Uh lead by example type of dude and you know it it’s you hear stuff like that and it’s how can you not get excited? That’s right. Cooper Flag also seemed to be really excited about Jason Kid’s mandate to handle the ball a lot during summer league and was asked about it and I’ll tell you he does not brag on himself very often. I listen to everything in the pre-draft process. I was literally standing next to him in the postdraft process as he was going through all these these things and he said about handling the ball in summer league. He said, “Yeah, I’m looking forward to it. Coach Shy, who’s coaching Duke, trusted me a lot last year. I handled it a lot in the half court. I handled a lot. You know, setting up a lot of different actions. So, I think it’s something I can do at a high level. So, I’m excited to do that and experiment and try new things.” For him to say that’s something I can do at a high level, like that to me is is saying a lot. He doesn’t say that very often about himself, about a specific skill. Yeah. I mean, it goes back to what I was saying, the fact that he was a 30% usage guy that quickly at Duke. I mean, they ran everything through. They did a bunch of different things, you know, they had him coming off screens, they had him pick and roll ball handlers, setting screens, like he did everything. So, uh, that’s what I’m that’s what I’m excited about is seeing him in that role. And and I want to it’s important because summer league, right? You it’s the first your first look at these guys and you’re so excited and it’s hard. You’ve built up these expectations and uh one way or the other you’re going to you’re there’s going to be insane reactions, right? Oh, for sure. It’s usually It’s funny because I’m going back and looking at summer league. I mean, a lot of top picks, especially guys who have the ball a lot, I’ve noticed struggle mightily in summer league or at least their percentages aren’t good. The efficiency is not great. You know what what I think is good. Brunson was terrible. Brunson was bad. Trey Young was really bad. Horrible. Yeah. What I think is interesting is this. This looks like a pretty good roster for the Mavs in summer league. Usually, God bless all these guys. Usually the Bavs are just thrown out. I mean, you watch it, you’re just like, what do the Mavs have out there right now? While other teams have like third, fourth year NBA guys that are kind of dominating. Did you see any of the Jazz versus uh the Jazz versus Grizzlies game last night? I saw Bryce Sens had what, like 40 points. There was like 10 actual rotation players in there. like the starting lineup for the Jazz all played rotation minutes for him last year plus Ace Bailey. Yeah, it’s wild to see some of these and then you see the Mavs and a lot of times like you say, but right now they have Cooper Flag. They’ve got two-way guys in Miles Kelly and Ryan Nehard who we’ll talk about a little later. Melvin Aenso is a second round draft pick last year, played professionally overseas like and then they’re bringing back um Jamarian Sharp who’s just as tall as ever. Like just it’s so wild to see. What is he listed as? He’s listed as 75. Geez, it just doesn’t compute. Like I was I was standing under the basket while he was doing a like a dribble like a a post drill and it just doesn’t even compute how tall that is. Anything past 72 is just like even 71 to me is like Yeah, Shaq is 71. But like I can imagine Shaq, but once you hear once I hear 75 like my brain doesn’t I’m just imagining like literal giants. I’m I’m picturing a ladder just like a ladder. I’m like, so the hoop is 10 feet 75. Just trying to map it out of my brain. Yeah, I’m excited to see Cooper Flag handle the ball a lot. And that first game, it sounded like Cooper Flag versus Bronny. The hype is going to be insane. I was there for the Lonzo Ball debut. I was there for the D’Angel Russell game winner. Like I was there for Victor Womanyama at summer league. And those are all hyped. And this one is about on par with those. One thing you could you one thing you got to give credit to the James for is they they are they are a hype machine, man. They just are. The league’s going to be worse off when LeBron retires. That much is certain. Cuz I mean, let’s get serious like Bronny versus Cooper Flack. That that realistically shouldn’t be like this huge like that. Well, I say it’s usually like Dylan Harper versus Cooper Flag. one number one and number two pick and then it’s like Ronnie who who played well in his summer league games from what I’ve seen like I think Ronnie could be an NBA player but it is just funny like the level and differences between the prospects at least going into the rookie years that it’s just like this hyped up like we got to see Bronny versus Flag what’s like the what’s like the real NBA equivalent player of that the real it’s like tonight on TNT DA Anthony Melton versus Davon DaVon Mitchell versus Davon Mitchell Jason Tatum It’s like what? It’s like when the team’s all injured and they like when the team when the Mavs are all injured like Dante Exom was a picture on the TNT. Oh my Yeah, you’re like really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. No offense to Dante Exom. Coming up, let’s hear about some other guys. Talked to Ryan Mhard as well. And I’m I’m interested to see how he fits and how he fits under this team. There’s some interesting things said about him, especially how they want to use him. Let’s talk about that and more coming up. [Music] All right, slightly we’re talking about NBA summer league. Went to practice today. Heard from Cooper Flag, heard from coach. And then I also talked about Ryan Nemhard. And I want to talk about him a little bit because I think he’s being not talked about enough. He’s measured at five 5’11 with no shoes at the combine. And that’s just like an immediately un like like non-qualifying trait for somebody in the draft. It’s very It’s very wild. But then you see the Kyle Lowry’s, you see the uh you see the Fred Van Vleets, you see Chris Paul even like you see these guys, there have been very successful NBA players that are six foot or just a little bit under six foot and get away with it. You know, Trey Young, throw him out there. Even throw Brunson who’s maybe like 6’1 maybe. And I don’t know. Oh, I I asked Ryan Mhard about his height specifically because I’m sure he heard it the whole time during the draft process. He didn’t get drafted and so I’m sure he heard from people, his agent and others about his height. And I asked him about it being a factor and he said, “I’ve been kind of dealing with it my whole life.” So, at the end of the day, I am who I am. It is what it is. I’m not going to grow much more. He’s like, he’s like, “I think I’m done growing.” Which I found really funny. And he said, “I’m probably done in that sense. So, I’m just going to build on this opportunity that I’m getting. And I feel like at a certain point the height won’t be talked about anymore. With those guys, all those guys that I mentioned, we don’t really talk about the height anymore that much. It is it’s mentioned sometimes. You have the Derry Scarland conversation with, you know, LeBron and KD recently. But what does he have to prove? Like at what point do you get to the point where you don’t have to prove anything about the height for an NBA player? Well, I think the thing about all the guys you mentioned, Kyle Lowry, Chris Paul, is those guys, you know, those guys dig deep defensively and they’ve they’ve had stretches, even flashes of being like great defenders despite their size. So, Nim Hard’s going to have to tap into something like that, I would say, to be like a consistent NBA rotation player or even cracker rotation like, you know, at six feet, you got to at least compete at a high level defensively and be scrappy and, you know, just be annoying really is what it boils down to. And if you got to go the Chris Paul Kyle Lowry route and just flop and be annoying as hell all game, then just go that route. That’s fine. But um how many all defensive teams do you think Chris Paul has made in his career? Four. Nine. Oh Jesus. I really you you scared me when you asked that question. Nine. That’s so many. Well, how many times you led the league in steals? Like six. And you caught you caught me on the spot. Anyways, like uh steals Yeah, steals per game six. Oh, there you go. I think I did know that. That’s why I said that specifically. I mean, I don’t know. I’m not saying he’s going to turn into that obviously, but I’m saying but but if he’s go but we’re asking the question like at what point does height not matter anymore that that’s not talked about anymore is you have to be defensively be that be be that good or at least hold your own enough because that’s that’s the whole reason why height is talked about that much because you can get picked on so easily if you’re if if you’re small like that, right? It’s the reason why the two the two small like gesture celebration thing became a thing is because guys kept scoring over smaller guys. Yeah. And then now they do it on centers and it makes no sense. But yeah, so I mean if if he could dig deep on defense like that, yeah, maybe there is a pathway. I think if he just grades out as a below average at best defender and bad to terrible defender at worst, he’s going to have to be kind of like a Tyus Jonesesque I can come off the bench 15 20 minutes just lead his offense, lead a second unit, get us good shots every time down the floor and give, you know, our starting point guard some rest. That would be the pathway for him. But I mean, everything I’ve seen from this dude, he’s a really good basketball player. Yeah. Like he he is he’s just a really good really smart basketball player. you know, the unfortunate reality of this sport and the sport at the NBA level is like, you know, there’s just certain physical prere pre prerequisites. And in order to sort of go against that, you have to be absolutely incredible, which is why like in recent years, I’ve just kind of used to get sucked into these like dra pre-draft like smaller guards just because they are so fun to watch in college and stuff like that. And they usually are like you watch college basketball, a lot of these guys can’t create for themselves. A lot of these guys can’t shoot. Then you see like the 57 guy. It’s like who’s that guy? The Kansas State guy something Pal or something I don’t remember from a while back. It’s like this guy should be in the NBA. It’s like he’s 5’7. This guy will just never make the NBA. Like that’s just the reality of the situation at hand. Maris Pal. Yeah, that might be it. That might be it. Something along those lines. But um I remember uh remember uh who’s the guy? Poppy God Pierre something. What’s his name? Oh my gosh. Um the I mean you look at the uh Grizzlies, what’s his name? Um was Pierre Jackson. Remember remember Pierre Jackson played for Yeah, I I do remember Pierre Jackson because he was he was weirdly enough like really good in 2Ks for some reason because he was so small and fast. He had a moment and people people were like, “Oh, dang.” Yeah. I mean, I’m I’m rooting for the guy, you know, because again, he’s 100%. He looks like a really good basketball player. It’s just, you know, for these small guards, you have to be really really good. Like really good. That’s why they say these small guards are always like the most skilled players. They have to be. They have no choice. Yeah. You you have to something has to take you like you don’t have any you can’t hide anywhere. Right. Right. Like you can’t just be big and hide on somebody. So, uh, coach Brockhammer was asked about playing positionless basketball, something Cooper Flag mentioned at his introductory press conference, and he mentioned Nemhard unprompted as a guy who can play on and off the ball. He said, “We have multiple guys, guy like Ryan Nemhard, he can play on and off the ball. He doesn’t just have to be a point guard to impact the game. He can play off the ball.” And that’s what you’re talking about. You have to be skilled. You have to be able to do multiple things and you have to be able to uh, you know, obviously hit threes and you have to be able to to score off secondary actions. And we know he’s he led the the you he led the you know college in assists. So we know that he’s got that he’s got the playmaking. Yeah. And I and I love that that that’s how our coaches viewed it. The summer league coach is viewing it cuz you know that’s the direction in the NBA is headed towards. And another thing you know for Nimart too is like yeah he’s going to have to be somebody who can catch and shoot, somebody who can attack close out. Like it can’t just be a hey I’m here give me the ball. Like I have to run the offense. I don’t really have an offball game, you know. Um, so I think what is it? 40% from three last year is what he shot in college, which was a huge huge uptick for him. I think he was 32% as a junior, 40% as a senior. Yep. So, we’ll see. You know, sometimes those, and I hate to like say this, but sometimes those shooting ticks in college can be a little misleading. I don’t know. His shot looks fine, and just the type of player that he is, I I can foresee him being a good three-point shooter and playing off Flag, but this will be really interesting. I think it’s kind of important and I’ in years past I’ve hated that the Mavs haven’t done this. I think it’s kind of important in summer league to have a guard like this. Yes. Always. Yeah. Because you watch some of these teams that’s like my god they can’t do anything. This is like the worst and most hideous basketball I’ve ever seen and it’s like who is this at that point it’s like who is this even good for? You know what I mean? You know what? It it kind of felt like I guess they had it a little bit, but the Derek Lively summer league team or Hardy was the point guard. Hardy was put as the point guard and then you had like Mike Miles kind of in there from TCU as one. McKinley Wright who was a two-way at that point and you’re just like, man, it’s like it just doesn’t feel like they have the one guy to set everything up. That’s the one where I’ll give a pass where it’s like we have this kind of combo guard or something, right? We need to see if if he can do this. And it was pretty clear and obvious that he could not cuz that was that was a brutal. That was a tough one. I was there for that one, too. That was that was a tough watch. Well, last year, did you go to last year’s? No. I don’t even think I watched a second of summer league last year. Do you think between the two of us we could name like five players on the summer league team last year? OMAX for sure because I remember being disappointed in what I was witnessing. I remember being disappointed. Uh Gortman. Jazz Gortman for sure was there. Jazz Gortman for sure. Yeah, that’s a good one. Okay, there’s some there’s some names. Uh there’s one. Wait, was Yeah, one one playing this year. Yeah, Melvin Aza. Yeah, Jazz Gortman. Uh did not play. Lively did not play, obviously. Uh Sharp, our guy Taran Sharp is back. Oh, that’s right. That’s right. And was Lawson on the team still? AJ Lawson was on the team. Yeah, I remember he played well. Yeah, he did. Um Yeah, that’s that was basically the team. Yeah, I mean I I our guy Alex our guy Alex Fudge. Alex Fudge who had the front row seat to the to the whole finals run. Alex Fudge. I uh I was like tried to I genuinely don’t know if I watched a single game but then I also remember being like well Max looks not great. So I guess I did. You probably streamed every game to be honest. Probably. I don’t remember any of it. Do you ever think like if you have kids that your your life is all documented? Like there’s so many things like I think about if we go back and there there’s hours and hours of me like talking about basketball and dumb things but like all that is kind of crazy especially because you’ve been doing it for what eight years. Yes. So yeah since 2017 it might be like you have a whole decade plus worth of getting there. Definitely before I have kids. There’s no I think that’s kind of I actually have thought about what you’re saying. I think it’s kind of cool actually. Me too. Like I do think it’s kind of cool. Unless it’s like until somebody makes an AI of us because there’s so much so much of an example of our voices out there. Yeah. I mean that’s so that’s the scary part of that. Yeah. We’ll see where that goes. But unless you’re doing just some like ungodly type of content and I’m not even meaning like I’m just meaning like horrible disgusting like like if you did Locked on Heat. Yeah. Exactly. Locked on Heat. locked on Lakers if you had to cover Dwayne Wade. Like if if you had to like pretend that Dwayne Wade was like the savior of your franchise. Like Dad, why did you say that about Dwayne Wade in 2009? Okay, go back to this video in 2011. Also the one in 2006. Also this documentary from this referee was I mean we’re we’re really there’s just no way in hell kids 12 years from now are watching YouTube. There’s they’re going to be on some form of one second. I don’t know. I think we would have said that cuz YouTube started in like what 2008 2009ish maybe 200 was it five. I feel like YouTube’s audience is older though, you know, compared to like Tik Tok or YouTube shorts for Oh, for sure. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. They’re going to be watching like one second a one second version of YouTube shorts. It’s only be one second. See, I think it’ll I think it’ll overorrect and we’ll go back to like long form because it it it went to like everybody’s watching TV, everybody’s watching these 30 minute things and then all of a sudden podcast came out and it was like, oh, everybody’s listening to an hour. Now it’s going back and now it’s now we are to the extreme where it’s like a minute on Tik Tok. But then there’s people that watch long Tik Toks now. You ever watch the the the SB mowing guy? I if you’re on Tik Tok posting longer than 60 seconds, you’re out of your mind. I like that that really pisses me off. Or I see like a 9minute Tik Tok. Well, you got to post more than a minute to get monetized for a lot of people. Oh, is that really? Yeah. So you can’t get monetized like a 15-second if it goes up. Some some of them can. Yeah. But interesting. Uh my my Tik Toks are all my Tik Tok for you page is just just cats. That’s seriously just cats. That’s it. Thanks for hanging out with us on Locked on Maps. This is Nick and Slightly special. Perfect way to end this show. We’ll be back tomorrow. I’ll be breaking down the whole summer league roster, talking about everything you need to know before I head out to summer league, guys. Thanks much for listening to Locked on Mavs. Go check out Slightly Bias. Great YouTube channel. All kinds of good stuff there. Thanks so much for listening to Locked on Mavs. Peace out. Boom. Boom. That’s right. 10 years. Hey, 10 years ago, DeAndre Jordan doing what? In in the Oh, in the getting held in the house. Yep. 10 years ago today.

Anthony Davis undergoes eye procedure as the Dallas Mavericks prepare for NBA Summer League. Cooper Flagg impresses with his work ethic, while the Mavs look to integrate new pieces like Kyrie Irving and Anthony Davis.

Nick Angstadt & Slightly Biased @SlightlyBiased discuss Anthony Davis’s recent eye surgery, Cooper Flagg’s impressive work ethic, and Ryan Nembhard’s potential role with the Dallas Mavericks. The episode also touches on Summer League expectations, mentioning players like Dereck Lively II and Jamarion Sharp, as well as comparisons to other NBA guards like Kyle Lowry and Chris Paul.

0:00 Anthony Davis Eye Surgery, Issue?
13:00 Cooper Flagg’s Work Ethic
21:30 Ryan Nembhard’s NBA Potential

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