Whole crowd was on its feet as Bronny attempted the potentialy game-winner 👀He missed, and the Mavs and Cooper Flagg escape with a two-point win over the Lakers in Vegas pic.twitter.com/jjD1j2yYjk— The Sporting News (@sportingnews) July 11, 2025
Mavs Edge Lakers 87-85 As Bronny Misses Game Winner
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July 10, 2025 6 Comments
Solid game, Lakers missed a ton of free throws, Cooper has some skills but seemed to struggle with even this level of “defense” but he stayed the course. Didn’t love that last play, sloppy execution and timing led to a well contested three.
He would have been instantly inducted into the Basketball Hall Of Fame if he made that shot. The amount of unfair, unrealistic expectations placed on LBJjr is absolutely ridiculous.
If I was Cooper Flagg, I’d attach myself to the hip of Klay Thompson and learn how to be a pro from one of the best. Hopefully he’ll be able to humble himself and take his advice (if Klay is willing to be a mentor to him).
Flags going to be good. No question. But the media has hyped him into a player that’s going to make the Mav’s true contenders this year. The media are making trades because he’s going to be so good. He is 18, it’s going to take time. He’s not going to beat out PJ this year. Kobe was the same age and it took him a couple of years to become that guy.
Wouldn’t be surprised if Cooper played point guard for the Mavs w/DLO as a combo guard.
Yeah..I don’t see him being ROY because he’s the rare #1 overall pick who’s actually going to a pretty good team…their Frontline is stacked. It’s a huge opportunity for him to learn in that type of structure. He’s surrounded 4 HOF’ers (Kidd, AD, Klay, Kyrie) ,a buncha solid NBA vets, and some well-respected asst. coaches. If he takes advantage of that situation then he’ll be well on his way to a very successful NBA career. He just can’t get distracted by the early expectations and try to be a superstar on Day 1.
Yeah, I feel for Bronny sometimes, dude will always be in his Pop’s massive shadow. But he coulda been anything and he clearly wants this so go do what you can, dude.