The Dallas Mavericks Have MAJOR Questions Outside Cooper Flagg & Kyrie Irving

The Dallas Mavericks Have MAJOR Questions Outside Cooper Flagg & Kyrie Irving

October 17, 2026



The Dallas Mavericks Have MAJOR Questions Outside Cooper Flagg & Kyrie Irving

Cooper Flagg and Kyrie Irving are READY for the Dallas Mavericks regular season opener against Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets. But after the Mavs got crushed in their final preseason game against the Atlanta Hawks, are the rest of this year’s squad ready to go? Kevin Gray of @DLLS_Sports breaks down the major questions surrounding Zaccharie Risacher, P.J. Washington, Naji Marshall, Daniel Gafford and others and if they fit alongside Coop and Kyrie. Plus, KG discusses the positive preseasons from Sergio De Larrea, Morez Johnson Jr as the Mavs try to figure the starting lineup with Max Christie potentially, if Dwight Powell makes the team over Moussa Cisse and more!

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Timestamps:

0:00 – Intro
1:00 – Flagg, Kyrie Are Ready
2:00 – Other Mavs Not Ready?
4:00 – Dusty May Video Clip
6:00 – Get FUBO TV!
7:20 – Max or Risacher Starting SG?
10:00 – Can Other Mavs Contribute Consistently?
12:45 – Mavs Difficult Schedule Start
13:00 – Does Dwight Powell Make The Roster?
15:30 – Sergio De Larrea Good Preseason
16:30 – Morez Johnson Jr Preseason Recap
17:30 – Other Mavs Concerns

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View Comments (8)

  1. PJ needs to get traded. he cant play defense, he cant shoot 3s well anymore (3/13) and he had 1 point the other night, and he cant play-make. WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE? vibes? cuz hes Mr Stand On Business? Dallas is paying him 20+ million for a literal cone. Mans got paid and stopped trying.

    Naji where do I start. STOP TRYING TO PLAY MAKE AND DRIVE FLOATER. he genuinely sucks trying to find a pass. he doesnt look like the same hungry naji from the last season.

    Gaffffff, my arkansan mafia goat. you gotta pack it up too. You havent looked good since Luka unfortunately. you got outrebounded by everybody. ur also brittle asf too. ur contract kicks in too. fahhhhh

    GUYS PLEASE PROVE ME WRONG

  3. All of the mavs guys will play better with a healthy Kyrie…. When you have two guards that puts pressure on the defense it’ll allow many more spot up shooting opportunities.

  4. The Mavs will finish 12th in the West with their current roster. It will be a slow rebuild, especially with very little draft capital. It's time to trade good players for bad contracts and draft picks.

  5. Kyrie is not the saver for this bad team. With the wrong first round pick, inexperienced head coach who can't even figure out between Yaxel and Mo J (which one is better), even though both played for him in the college, In addition, PJ, Max, Naji, Martin, Cooper all can't shoot. What an ugly team! I am so disappointed!!!

  6. Offensively, the Mavs don't have enough guys who can go get his own buckets consistently. Regarding Naji and PJ, I believe Naji has to get back to being aggressive and get to his spots on offense and making an impact that way; while, PJ should focus on being a lockdown defender once again because this team needs a dawg on defense. Lastly, this team isn't connected on defense, and have poor flow on offense..Coach Dusty has to figure this out soon because the schedule is brutal, and you can't fall too far below .500.

  8. Hi Kevin – Love your work. Having a pass first point guard on the court is very valuable; For the 4 preseason games:

    1) Sergio-assisted 3s: 50.0% (9/18 on 0.5s rhythm passes)

    2) All other assisted 3s: ~27.8% (~32/115 off heavy isolation / late kick-outs)

    Takeaway: Sergio’s quick-swing processing doubles the team's catch-and-shoot efficiency compared to static, non-Sergio sets. But sure, let's keep running pt Naji , and pt Caleb (end even Cooper) Iso Drives into triple teams, then panic pass out at the end of the clock. that's just fantastic Also, Sergio is a PnR savant. but alas, that's not part of our offense. But I think the coaches and analytics guys will eventually figure this out. i hope

    SO, yeah, one thought, if we are looking for advantages: maybe they should run the offense through Sergio, and let Coop Kyrie, etc., everyone, play off Sergio, via motion offense, PnR, etc. not Iso drives into a packed paint, and then end of clock kick outs. it can't possibly be worse than what we saw last night

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