Mavs SURVIVE Injury CHAOS—Anthony Davis Return? | Dwight Powell’s MVP Night | Cooper Flagg’s Bounce
The Dallas Mavericks secured a hard-fought win against the Indiana Pacers in a thrilling NBA matchup, overcoming injuries and adversity while showcasing the depth of their roster. Cooper Flagg posted a double-double and played outstanding defense, while Dwight Powell received MVP chants as the shorthanded Mavs stepped up in the absence of key players like Anthony Davis, Kyrie Irving, Dereck Lively II, and Daniel Gafford.
Nick Angstadt and Slightly Biased break down how the Dallas Mavericks battled through injuries, analyze standout performances from Cooper Flagg, Dwight Powell, PJ Washington, and D’Angelo Russell, and discuss the impact of Jason Kidd’s lineup choices. The episode covers key moments involving Klay Thompson, Naji Marshall, and insight into the front office with Nico Harrison, Mark Cuban, and Patrick Dumont. Tune in for analysis on the latest challenges the Mavs face and what this means for their NBA season ahead.
0:00 Mavs Win & AD Injury Scare
5:36 Dwight Powell’s MVP Night
11:39 Cooper Flag Defensive Upside
21:27 Brandon Williams’ Impact
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41 Comments
Time to trade AD, Klay and Kyrie and build around our young bucks Brandon Williams, Cooper Flagg and Dwight Powell.
Dlo is more important to this team than AD…
We love Dwight Powell
AD maybe betting on his over under and left the game
Idiotic Pacers fell for the Dwight Powell Pump Fake
All these fn Debbie Downers.
Appreciate what Williams and Powell contributed.
Dwight Jeffrey Powell
Dwight Haslem he is the culture!
Dwight Powell is always ready and never complained just a showed up when needed..
The problem with the Mavs is they always seem to have a weak bench/lack of depth and the problem goes back well before the Luka trade. I'm not a Mavs fan, but this is a great show to listen to. Well done.
I think Dwight sees where the team is at and played his heart out not for the Mavs but for Rick Carlisle.
He was arrested Sat…not Tuesday
That was a fun win. This game reminded of the stretch late last year when they had to piece a team together and was winning. Learned about Gafford post game, Brandon Williams on a 10 day and balling out, guys like Moses and Kai Jones playing well, Max Christie emerging, seeing Naji full bag and balling. At this point the Mavs should try and package a deal to trade AD. They play much better when he's not slowing down the pace. This was Cooper best game overall was affecting the game and he looked more assertive without AD.
I love lively, but I’m of the train. He has to take the wemby approach . He is too FRAGILE. He is a 7footer. He needs the right shoes, I would choose Wendy’s shoes because they designed it specifically around his foot. But lively need to train his tendons, his joints etc, just like wemby. If he doesn’t, he’s gonna be bust. And honestly, he’s already close to being a bust
Mavs are 2-3 after a five game home stand against bottom half teams. Seems to project out to less than 30 wins. Even with the Flagg lottery luck, the Slow train wreck since the trade continues.
The funny part is yea coops skinny, but you can tell when he gets his man body he’s gonna be HUGE. He doesn’t look MUCH smaller than the rest of the guys on the floor. You can tell he’s 18, but he’s one of those you go “that’s a big 18 year old “ when you see him 😅. He already has the broad shoulders and heights. Once the muscle mass comes, he’s gonna be a freak 😂
Hang that number 7 jersey in the rafters NOW.
Just a matter of time before street clothes misses an extended amount of games what sucks is lively is just as brittle
To the NBA finals to this lmao
I don’t like the Klay slander, I want him taking 10 threes a game. He’s a cold blooded sniper he’s proven that before us and with us. He’s also defending at a good level
shout out MVP Dwight. hes Mr Mav at this point
AD is showing early Achilles symptom, gonna be rough and will be a disaster if we loose him
We could offer every player on the team besides Flagg, and every pick we own, for Luka and the Lakers would laugh at us. What will it take to never have to listen to Nico and his dumb Joel Osteen voice ever again ?
It looks like the Coaches does not want Flagg to be part of the team Flagg is in the corner watching the gm
Nicos vision – he wants 2-way guys… well Klay is a 2-way at this point, 2-way contract guy…
Man, at this point let's just gut this team. Our bigs can't stay healthy to save their lives and let's get some of these other guys some minutes that are proving themselves and build around Coop.
New starting lineup should include powell, DLo, AD and Coop
More like NEXT BUM UP! Lol This team is hot garbage juice! 🤢 So sad, they were in the Finals not to long ago, now they’re just bottom feeders…
Fire Nico chant?
D-live = good defense but ZERO offense.
trade him and exum and martin for a piiiimp 3 point shooter and another offensive position.
Maybe all these injuries not just bad luck, maybe it has something to do with the trainers the gm hired?
Sell the team chants soon
LET B-WILL COOK
I have conflicting emotions. I feel awful that AD is injured but overwhelming relief that he’s not the Lakers problem anymore.
We need to start building around Powell. The answer has been right in front of us for so long.
ITS NOT AS RIDICULOUS AS THE TRADE….. .PPL STILL MAD AND WILL STAY MAD…..
Reminds me of the legendary Boban game before the covid lock out lol
Dwight Powell unironically was the MVP this game
I am very tired of injuries for AD, Lively, Exum. I am very tired of bad games from Klay. It doesn't happen that often, but Dlo can not dribble out the clock and jack a bad shot. Finally I wish AD would give 3/4 the effort of Dwight Powell
This team has no center.
Tbh I always said next year gonna be the best year year 2 flagg with kyrie healthy and AD healthy it was always gonna be a issue with AD carrying this season but lively im concerned about he always got something going on