{"id":7776,"date":"2025-07-13T23:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7776\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T23:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:49:08","slug":"cooper-flagg-says-im-exhausted-after-new-role-for-mavs-nba-summer-league-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7776\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg Says ‘I’m Exhausted’ After New Role for Mavs’ NBA Summer League Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg felt firsthand how helping to initiate an NBA offense can be a physically demanding task.<\/p>\n

The Mavs occasionally used the No. 1 overall pick as their offensive engine in Saturday’s 76-69 loss to the San Antonio Spurs, and it was an adjustment.<\/p>\n

“I think I’ve been solid. I’m exhausted,” he said after the game, per The Athletic’s Kelly Iko and Jared Weiss<\/a>. “I’m not used to bringing the ball up like that. Had somebody on my hip every time I brought the ball up the court 94 feet. I think I did a solid job of bringing it up against pressure and setting up different actions.”<\/p>\n

Flagg scored a game-high 31 points on 10-of-21 shooting. Only finishing with one assist elides how frequently he was asked to create off the dribble.<\/p>\n

The Mavs signed D’Angelo Russell to be a stopgap at point guard with nine-time All-Star Kyrie Irving recovering from a torn ACL. Dante Exum re-signed as well to give the frontcourt more depth.<\/p>\n

Still, Dallas might be counting on Flagg to play a high-usage role, especially when Russell is on the bench. Assuming that’s the case, summer league is an opportunity to begin ironing out one of the few flaws in his game.<\/p>\n

“Flagg isn’t the sharpest isolation player in terms of creating high-percentage looks,” Bleacher Report’s Jonathan Wasserman<\/a> wrote in his predraft scouting report. “Executing without turning the ball over in traffic could be a challenge early in his career.”<\/p>\n

Every rookie faces a learning curve in the NBA. Beyond the work he’ll put in on the practice floor, it sounds like there’s a lot of cardio in Flagg’s future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg felt firsthand how helping to initiate an NBA offense can be a physically…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-7776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}