Cooper Flagg First Practice with Mavericks Ahead of the NBA Summer League 2025
Huh? Come on. Absolutely. Keep going. Heat. Heat. I’m just here. the summer league when Jason Kidd was talking about you, you know, he looks at failure as an opportunity to learn. So, just with the pressure of, you know, being drafted number one overall, how much is it that you have support from your head coach that you can try new things and there’s some space there. Yeah, I think it it gives me a lot of confidence obviously, you know, having that um kind of message and confidence from him just knowing that he’s going to trust me, you know, try some new things and, you know, we’ve talked about him just telling me that, you know, it’s going to you’re going to go through some failure, but um um he’s not worried about, you know, mistakes or little things like that. So, just, you know, pushing through um exploring new things, um trying to get on my shell and do do different things on the court. I think it I’m excited to just kind of try that out. conference the other day and Jason Kidd sitting next to you and he’s emphasizing he wants you to handle the rock a lot and play some point guard. How does that make you feel and is that something you’re looking forward to? Yeah, I’m looking forward to it. I mean, I think you know, Coach SH trusted me a lot last year and I I handled it a lot. You know, I didn’t bring it up with some, but you know, in the half court I handled it a lot and you know, set up a lot of different actions. So, um I think it’s something I can do at a high level. So, I’m excited to just, you know, experiment and do some new
Cooper Flagg First Practice with Mavericks Ahead of the NBA Summer League 2025
