{"id":21861,"date":"2025-10-26T14:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/21861\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T14:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:09:13","slug":"bill-simmons-on-cooper-flagg-dallas-asking-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/21861\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Simmons On Cooper Flagg: Dallas Asking Too Much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 _16w9vov6 _16w9vov5 ls9zuh1\">With the Dallas Mavericks opening at 0-2, people are questioning Jason Kidd\u2019s decision to start Duke rookie Cooper Flagg at point guard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Actually, he calls him point forward, but potato potahto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dI wanna go on the record really emphatically. This \u2018Flagg playing point guard thing is f****** stupid. It\u2019s stupid. Stop, [Dallas coach] Jason Kidd&#8230; We know you lucked out with the lottery&#8230; But this is not the right way to bring in a kid who\u2019s not even 19, and who doesn\u2019t know what kinda basketball player he is yet, but he clearly is special. You\u2019re putting all this extra stuff on him that I think is ridiculous&#8230; Play D\u2019Angelo Russell and Nembhard, who cares?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Obviously this wouldn\u2019t be an issue if Kyrie Irving wasn\u2019t rehabbing from ACL surgery, but he is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What\u2019s fascinating to us is the wild swings in the Flagg hype machine. One day, he\u2019s overrated. The next day, he\u2019s the next great star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We take the point that Quinn Everts makes in the Smoking Cuban, that you don\u2019t want to overburden the kid, but on the other hand, you can\u2019t get many better point guard tutors than Irving and Kidd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Still, they are asking an awful lot from an 18-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Dallas Mavericks opening at 0-2, people are questioning Jason Kidd\u2019s decision to start Duke rookie Cooper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11918,102,104,103,16111],"class_list":{"0":"post-21861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-alumni","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-main"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}