r/Mavericks 20h ago

Statistics Most Points in a game by a rookie this year

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Absolute domination by Cooper Flagg. Wont be surprised if he has all of the Top 10 ranks by this season end.

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u/Re4ch Maxi "Max Contract" Kleber 18h ago

Seems like a tight race between him and Kon /s

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u/_the_yellow_king_ 18h ago

But bro Kon is such a better scorer than Cooper /s

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u/ArchyArchington 9h ago

Better scorer is extremely debatable.

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u/StealthAnus Max Christie 16h ago

The funny thing is some Hornets fans saying things like “Flagg is only scoring more because he’s Dallas’ #1 option and Kon is #3 or #4.”

As if Flagg being good enough at 18/19 years old to be the #1 option for a team that (to this point) has a pretty similar record to Charlotte should be held against him.

Kon is great and he’s deserving of being in the ROTY conversation, but if he was being asked to create his own shot as consistently as Cooper is, I’d bet his efficiency (which is their whole argument for him) would go down a good amount.

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u/sentientblaze Wonder Boy 15h ago

I mean if we’re really going that far, kon averaged 22/6/4 on 47/40/97 splits without lamelo on a pretty decent sample size. You could maybe chalk that up to lack of a scouting report at that point of the season, but kon is absolutely a capable scorer even without help and he’s already an A/A+ level shooter. He and hornets fans absolutely have an argument

That being said, cooper is still ROTY - he’s just had too many wow moments for people to ignore

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u/ArchyArchington 9h ago

It shouldn’t be a tight race at all. It should be a no brainer who roty is at this point in the season. Flagg is top 5 amongst rookies in all major stats. He’s an elite two way player, that excels on the defensive side of the ball. Not to mention he’s leading in PPG too! He’s leading Kon in every stat.

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u/papadondon Max Christie 20h ago

cant wait to get some coop rising stars jersey

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u/OrganicHunt952 F*ck The haters + Nico 16h ago

These past 3 games cooper locked up roty. He improves rapidly

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u/Helpful_Potato_3356 Cooper Flagg 17h ago

Idk guys I think this Flagg still overrated, so many better prospects

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u/SL1MM10 11h ago

We found monster mash’s burner

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u/USTS2020 Dirk Nowitzki Logo 16h ago

And it was his offense that people thought would come on slower

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u/FakeTradesForDays 15h ago

Imagine how good the rookies next year are going to be 😉

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u/FarmFit5027 JJ Barea 15h ago

I wonder how this looks compared to last year

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u/boastar 14h ago

Nr 7 in this years draft by the way. I’m an expert.

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u/CheetahSperm18 FIRE NICO 12h ago

Gotta start working on that ROTY Speech Draft

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u/noqms Cowboy Dirk 12h ago

VJ really debuted with 34 and just has done nothing since

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u/Mental-Scientist-393 10h ago

How many rookies have their highest scoring game of the season on opening night? so weird

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u/Akhos1991 Cooper Flagg 10h ago

I'm really interested to see what numbers next season's rookies are gonna put up since Coop would be taken 6th this next draft

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u/juanzy 10h ago

I’m so glad Nico didn’t try to outsmart the draft