Cooper Flagg Is on a Historic 4-Game Scoring Surge

Here's Cooper flag with it. Lamello ball the defender. Cooper trying to take him off the bounce, got around him, switch to the right hand, rolls in. Nice finish. Here's Lamello ball. It's almost knocked into the net by Moussa as he deflected the pass. Nice attack. And Cooper to the basket. Straight line drive and finish. 8-0 Dallas run just comes to an end as Brandon Miller with a four-point play. Slamming it home, Cooper flag. Bam! Sexton, shots the line with a put-back attempt. And get ready for something else pretty special. On the attack. Flag straight on. Cooper flag, his first three-pointer. That is just wrong. Contact a little slot step left. Oh my goodness, Cooper flag. He's got the last ten for Dallas. Operative number that I'm focused on as Coop tries to answer. Caught and he does! Great action. You got to be cool, calm, and collective. You can't let one play. Oh, but flag hits it over Kniphol. Dirk's gonna be on the broadcast in the third quarter. This, uh... What does that look like? At halftime for our coverage on KFAA and MAPS TV, the jersey retirement ceremony that is. Halftime for Martin is coming up as Cooper. The mellow ball heads the other way. Throws it up ahead to Miles Bridges. Bridges! Oh, wow! He missed a dunk and it's going all the way out to Cooper. Missing this dunk and it couldn't have fallen any better for Cooper flag who scores two and has a chance for a three-point play. As a team offensively. We noted earlier that six from the lead in offensive rating. Here is Cooper on the pull-up and flips it in. We just saw among many, many others and of course there's some company with you in the retired jersey of the Mavericks Club of the Raptors. Thank you, Dirk, and great to see you. We appreciate you, man. You saw those Maverick teams. You saw those championship Detroit teams and so you have an understanding to your point a moment ago. Yeah, for sure. He was an incredible player. It's really amazing too, Dirk, as we just see Cooper score. So that's a nice lead in. And that's that's part of, you know, being in the league and getting to know these these guys you work with on a nightly basis. And here's Cooper inside. He's got 38 points, flips it up and in on the drive. Was his high that tied the Mavericks rookie record also scored by Mark Aguirre and now 40 points and still nine minutes to play. Creeping over it, ready to attack, now pulls up and yes! Incredible. Now here's Coop and he's gonna drive on Brandon Miller, gliding to the tip and there's a new Maverick rookie record for points in a game. For being a good team. All right, ball into Cooper with 46 points. A three would tie it. That's what he takes. He's feeling it. He's in a zone, as they say. You know what else is incredible about this with where he shot it on the court. His shot release is too high to get a real contest on that. Flag on the drive using his left hand. Banks it home easily. He has really struggled from three to say the least. He's had some excellent games, but not from beyond the arc. Flag drives, draws a foul. Shots good and one. Shot making now, particularly that he's making more perimeter shots comfortably, but he still loves more than anything to get to that. Max Christie finds some space. Gaffer tips it. Washington grabs it. Flag goes past Shepard, goes inside again, switches to the left hand. Cooper Flag doing the same thing here, up and around Shingun. Javari Smith misses. Well, it was another Mavs rookie years ago that only shot 21% from three-point range as Flag throws it down. Cooper Flag with the flush. I remember Dirk doing this his rookie year, but Cooper Flag gets a gap in the defense and knows how to finish. Shingun's got a real good shot of being an all-star. He's having a nightmare start to begin the game. Cooper Flag, a little hesitation, gets inside. Bank shot's good. Very difficult for the defense to be able to shift and get in front of that second pass. Flag gets away, goes inside again. That left hand on the foul. Dallas not back and ready. Poor transition defense with Thompson in attack mode there. Flag in attack mode with Durant, turns and scores. Cooper Flag, beautiful shot. We head to the fourth of five-point lead for the Rockets as this presentation of NBA Taylor Martin brings it back out. Cooper Flag, jumper, it's good. The hustle we've seen from the Mavericks all season long, even when they're shorthanded on most nights. Flag chased off the line, left-handed, beautiful smooth move from Cooper Flag. A prime time on ABC presented by Wingstop continues after this message and a word from our ABC stations. 12 points, 14 boards, back to 10 with five minutes remaining. Flag spins, left-handed shot. Oh, what a beauty from Cooper Flag. Wow, what a tough shot. Shingun with the left first. And then Thompson again continues to fill the stat sheet. Flag doing the same thing, floats it up and in. He's got 28. That would have been one of the great plays. Flag, count it, and a foul. Another Flag flurry. And this is what he loves to do. He loves the spin and coming out of that, you know, Flag, 524, drives inside, left-handed layup is good. Cooper's cooking here in the fourth quarter. Watch now, when he backs up and he looks up at the rim right here, goes with his right hand, right there, that absolute inside-out dribble. With that shot volume as opposed to knowing that you've got Tatum and Brown, and if you get a top shot quality against most teams, you're going to find your way at the top of the game as Flag gets a first bucket against the Celtics. Good shot. Rebound to Martin. He's off to the races. Attack. Flag gets upstairs in a hurry. Flag and Jalen Brown battling early. It was the rookie getting the ooze and on. Flag, goal points already. Attack load on Garza. He finishes over the top. Sixth man of the year award winner last year. He looks comfortable right now, as does Cooper Flag, with a pull at hand over Brown. There's a new shooter in town. It doesn't matter if it's slow, it's effective, as Cooper Flag uses the left. Man, he is so good with his left. He's back home as well. He's missed the entire year so far. Good, and Tyson has been great for them as well. Surprise. Flag, that's just pure will. Flag nearly lost his footing. Three came from Powell. Now it's Houser that steps up, likes the matchup, goes to left, blows it up, and in. After two. Nice dribble penetration here by Flag. Good teardrop. Now starting the second half for the injured Daniel Gafford, who went to the locker room towards the end of the second quarter. On the throw, it's Flag. Rise over Houser for two. Nice. Patience. Finish right at the rim. It's a 10-0 run bridging the quarter for Boston. Flag, top off, goes down. He's got 11 points now and puts his team up by twice. Flag floats, and he doesn't get the roll tip in. He followed the miss. Houser's see-say plays. I believe that he impacts the game without having a call. This guy does the same. Cooper Flag broke it on full display there by Cooper Flag. Six to see now off the screen. Bounce. Christie back to Flag. He's going to have to play. That's a great relief. One thing that they could improve upon is three-point shooting. At 34.6 percent, they're 24th in the league. One for five after their last trip down. The threes taken in the first quarter of this game for San Antonio. They've put up 13 of 18 shots have been threes. They've made five. Here's Cooper on the launching pad to flush it. Clean plant in his foot, so he gave the ball up to Cooper. And here is Cooper Flag. Turnaround shot, low block, bullseye. Something nice. Well, probably a sign of two things. Obviously, other teams realizing that they're special players. They're going to garner a lot of them, no matter how high you put that up there. Here is Cooper Flag working for it and scoring. Difficult possession. Bunch of home games to start the year. You knew you were going to owe the road at some point. Here's a late clock situation. Dallas nearly turned it over, but the ball ends up in the hands you want. Cooper for Max Christie. Cooper's got 13 points, and he is looking for two more, and he finds them. Don't want to see another guy get going. Yeah, Fox just nine points for the game with that make. And Cooper's a free-throw line, and he's had a lot of success on jump shots. Shooting percentages remain high in this game. Dallas, 55 percent. San Antonio, 54, finishing with authority. First time out, we have a two-point game. Let's see it again. Almost reached the top of the mountain in their comeback attempt. Here comes Coop, driving, floating, good. Cooper's up to 21, working here against Devon Castle. Coop had an 11-point third quarter, and he starts off the fourth quarter in style. This team and this organization happy for him. Now Coop to answer, which he does. Cooper flagged. Navs have been in the ring exchanging punches with them all night long, and they've been within one here in the second half, and another floater over Wimby by Coop. This has been keeping him all night long. He doesn't want Ls by them, like has been the case in these high-scoring games. He wants Ws by those things. It's not about his stats. Cooper on the drive, and he takes it into the teeth of the...