Tuesday: Who is Cooper Flagg’s NBA Comp?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
You know, during the break, we were trying to figure
out who to compare Cooper Flag to Yeap, And obviously
there's the Larry Bird comparison. Uh, but I was trying
to think of some other players that he plays like
and and it's kind of hard to tell the difference
because it's college and he may have a little bit
different role. But he's a good shooter, he's a good driver,

(00:30):
he can post up. I don't know it is Jason
Tatum a good comparison.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Maybe maybe, because again I'm trying to he's six' nine
two o nine right.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Now he'll be two thirty by the time he's playing
basketball full, time you, know twenty, Five.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah two twenty.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Five i'm Just i'm trying to think of who he
could potentially even in the even in the. PAST i
just at six,' nine it's just he's. A guard I
just i can't think. OF anybody i really can't ty
any player past president that you can think Of The Cooper.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Flag, Tatum yeah tatum's a. Big One but i'm, Gonna
SAY lebron i. Watch him He is he's more committed
on defensive end Than young. Lebron was but he reminded
me even while watching in, the tournament his patients on
offense and sometimes how he just relaxes unless his guys
kind of get their shots in and then he tried
to take over his pace. Of play reminds me a

(01:35):
lot Of young.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
LEBRON because i think we Look at lebron now as
the big physical adonna's body all that kind, of stuff
and the Way that lebron has managed his body and
able to be able to play at forty plus.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Years old But young lebron did a lot of.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Those things he could, post up he, could shoot he
became a good three. POINT shooter I think flag is
a better Shooter than lebron was at, his age but
he may not be. AS strong I think lebron was
probably closer to two twenty five to two thirty when
he got in.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
The league.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
And not that he's going to become the all time.
LEADING scorer i don't think any of us are. Saying
that but he can still Have a Hall of fame
like career if he is able to do a lot
of the things That The lebron.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
James did what's funny Is is I'm glad ty was
the one.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Who put that out THERE because i was actually thinking
of that in, my head but, IT'S like i don't
want to put that out there, and, say, oh yeah
he reminds me of a young eighteen Year Old, lebron, james.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Right yeah because if you go back and Look at
lebron two thousand and three to two thousand, and seven
in those early Years, in cleveland he wasn't near as
bulked up as he. Is now he was he was
obviously a, younger person and we all gain weight as,
we age the athletes, don't necessarily but all of his
stuff is pretty, much muscle and he's really been able to.

(02:49):
Do that and you have to be able to have
that scletal muscle mass and all those kind of things
to be effective at an.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Older age now, for athletes, you know.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Seven thirty eight to forty years old is like us
as we get to fifty, five sixty they're they're running out.
Of gas in the end is closer than. The BEGINNING
but i think that's, you know We've Had doc garrett
on many times before talking about building your muscle mass
if you want to stay healthy into your, older years
and now you can kind of compare that on the
basketball court That's what lebron's been able. To DO but

(03:21):
I Think cooper flag is going to be an interesting
deal in. The league and the thing About. The west
You've Got, oklahoma city That. In minnesota one of those
is going to be Defending The western, conference championship the
other one's going to be the.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Runner up You.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Got dallas that wants to try to make a run.
Coming back you Got the spurs up. And coming houston
was the second best team In the west all.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Year long you Throw.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
In memphis if they can get their act Together and
jah can be the, good job then that's going to be,
a tough tough team. TO beat i think Other, Than,
phoenix Utah, and Portland the west is pretty much And
Maybe colden state depending on what they do with. Their
roster there's not going to ever be an easy game In.
The west every team is going to, be good and

(04:04):
we're going to have a lot of parody in.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
A lot In. The WEST and i would even. Think that.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
I'll tell you HERE'S something i saw the other day
that's going to be. Really interesting it's a little, off
topic but it doesn't really matter who what kind Of player.
FLAG is I think dallas is going to be amongst
those teams when the league expands to thirty, two teams
because it will and it's going to. Happen soon the
two cities that are likely to get Teams are Vegas. And,
seattle though so that means That, Either, minnesota Memphis Or

(04:35):
new orleans is going to be one of the three
teams that goes east because they're right on all three
of those Are The Furthest, eastern conference Are The Furthest
western conference teams In The, furthest east those three teams
are on the On The, mississippi river basically right right down.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
The line so you expand if they do, do that
you expect them to actually. Just relocate one of those teams.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Goes east my guess is is it would PROBABLY be
i think it Would.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Be memphis but would make the, most, sense.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
YEAH because i think if you look at, the map
they're Probably The, furthest east but Could, be minnesota Could Be.
New orleans but what if you just got rid of
conferences and said we're all, playing everybody and the top
sixteen teams get in and the next four play for the.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Playing games well let's get rid of the play in. For,
ONE oh, i agree what that doesn't need to. Be
in but by, the Way But lebron james apparently was
two forty when he.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
WAS drafted i don't. BUY that i don't buy that
they have enlisted it he was.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Too, forty yeah that's a that's a bad scale either
that or or or a cooper of flags closer to
to forty than we think. He IS but i think
that this was just a scenario that they threw out
on A video. I saw just take the top sixteen
teams east, or west it, doesn't matter and and you

(05:55):
would probably have twelve teams from the west and for
from the east if you if he did, it geographically
but everybody is going to be all three of those
teams are gonna beg borrow and steal to get In,
the east because all three of them would have a
much easier path to get in the playoffs than that
with the gautlet of teams that are in, the west.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
And especially, right now If.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
The greek freak winds up going west, the East ties
calves would have a absolute run to the potential of
being the.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Number one boston's gonna still, be good although we Don't
know boston's gonna get. Blown up boston's gonna have to
get Rid of Tatum, OR brown i think one of,
the two And probably Brown because. Tatum's, injured well let's
talk about it. Next segment, all right we'll get to.
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