The Mavs just showed why they are so dangerous...

The Mavericks are actually scary. We just witnessed what we've been waiting for for a very long time. That is Kyrie Irving's return to play, paired alongside all the other Mavericks. Obviously, Cooper Flagg, and we got to see not only Kyrie Irving look like his former self, but some more young stars continuing to thrive, continuing to look impressive. And as we approach the beginning of the regular season, this is all lining up perfectly for the team. We're going to dive into all of that, as well as some other updates before we get into it all. very quick reminder to hit that subscribe button, Jason it was a very early game this morning what we did see was a lot of impressive play now obviously most people were waiting for and ultimately were kind of wanted to highlight the Kyrie Irving action and they led the Mavericks Kyrie Irving led the Mavericks to a 132 to 115 win the win means a little bit less obviously in you know in the in the preseason but you can see here and it was a very interesting game um we can see obviously this is it says starters but we're just lining it up from top to bottom on minutes to to least amount of minutes so these weren't actually starters but Jace we saw Kyrie Irving go out and put up 17 points we saw Zachary Rishel say we saw Cooper Flagg struggle a little bit from the field but still managed to put up points but let's just start with Kyrie Irving he finished with 17 but he looked like he hadn't really lost a step he was quick he was explosive it didn't look like he was kind of second guessing many of his movements there surrounding the injury I it's a very very good sign yeah I mean heck first points of the game a little reverse on the on the right baseline so really just looked like he was not injured at all over the past year so very exciting to see and I think all the talk of oh I'm good you know I'm not going to have any steps there's not going to be anything that's going to take away from me we all kind of like wanted to believe that but we didn't exactly know for sure and now seeing this game seeing what he was capable of one it's a completely different team and when you look at the first game for this game completely different in the way that they played in the way that it was managed in the way that Dusty may got to coach, but in a bigger way, it was also a Kyrie Irving show of saying, hey, I may be aging, I may be coming off a very important injury in my career, but I am still that same player. I am still one of the most elite point guards and ball handlers in the NBA, and he was very much a huge piece of this win. And the win, like I said, doesn't really matter all that much, but what does matter is the way that this team played with him. Yeah, it's funny, like you mentioned, his first basket being a reverse layup. And 17 points, I mean, you can look at it here. obviously some guys played more minutes than others we saw Cooper Flagg lead the team but Kyrie Irving led the team in points and that was very very impressive so shout out to Mr. Kyrie Irving there's another name we haven't talked about there's actually a lot of them we haven't talked about obviously Marrez Johnson didn't play today but there's a few other young names including Zachary Rischae who went out and sent a pretty serious message here to Dustin May about where he's going to play this year he finished with second minutes also Sergio Delaria which we'll dive into as well but there's one tidbit surrounding Rischae i want to dive into but before i do it a quick word from our sponsor no throws a great outfit off fast an old beat-up belt that just doesn't fit right most guys are still wearing belts with stretched out holes that either pinch your waist or sag and throw off your entire look and that's why i'm excited to have Anson Belt and buckle as the sponsor of today's video and instead of holes Anson uses a micro adjustable track system with quarter inch increments so your belt fits perfectly every single time you can see the belt here the quality is amazing my favorite part is the buckle it is truly one of a kind and once you experience that kind of fit and comfort you'll never want to go back to wearing a regular belt again i've been wearing mine non-stop and it's the best i've ever owned and if you're wondering why you should trust them this is a company that's still proudly family-owned and operated has earned over 40,000 five-star reviews i found one talking about how it was amazing for gifting and the packaging is just incredible i agree the package is put together great amazing for gifting and they back their belts with a lifetime guarantee on functionality so they stand behind every product they make also because Anson Belt and Buckle is sponsoring today's video when you click the link in the description or scan the QR code on screen to build a box set you get two bonus pieces a buckle and a strap completely free that's three buckles three straps which can be mixed and matched into nine unique unique belt combos all in one box it's an exclusive deal folks you will find nowhere else so click the link build your set and upgrade your belt game today shout out to Anson for sponsoring this one make sure to check them out but yeah let's dive into it so Zachary Richards i mean he looked incredible i don't know what other way to put it here put up 16 points three rebounds two assists extremely efficient um you know two for six from the three-point line and even though it wasn't super efficient from the three-point line a 33 or so percent him shooting that is going to be very important a plus seven jace what did you see from him obviously he's going to have his growing pains still at three turnovers but this is a former number one overall pick and somebody that realistically has to uh i think in order for this team to i think really make a push and have a very very strong bench i think having him there will be having him perform like this will be absolutely critical yeah i think it's hard because we want to overreact in the preseason and i want to say like you know this is the number one pick that we you know saw in him but at the same time it also is preseason and it's against you know a team we're facing the Rockets. Yeah, but it's just, it's a different format. So I'm very excited. I'll say that. And I do think this is like the type of play they want from Rasheed, but he hit the nail on the head. There's going to be growing pains. There's going to be games where he does this and looks great, but there's also going to be games where he has, you know, five points and four turnovers or, you know, whatever. And so I think that looking at a guy like Rasheed kind of develop over this preseason is going to be huge and seeing him kind of, I guess, get better at the weaknesses is going to be a pretty, pretty big thing for him, especially if there's a shot where he's going to play consistent minutes alongside Kyrie and Cooper, given that, you know, Max Christie and him are kind of battling right now for the number one shooting guard spot. Yeah. He'll have to get better at, see how to get better at shooting realistically. If you want to play alongside Kyrie and last year, obviously saw a pretty significant decline even throughout the whole, but even like his first 62 games, like he was okay, but even his last five games, like just completely fell out of favor. Obviously a lot of that was because of, you know, the Hawks, the playoffs and all that stuff, but it'll be interesting to see. We also saw Cooper Flag definitely struggle today compared to his usual self. He went three for 10. But when you're, you know, star guy puts up 14, four and seven while having a pretty rough go, it shows the ability for him to be extremely good. Now, was it the debut against preseason? So it doesn't matter a whole lot. But was it the kind of debut for the pairing that we would like to see? Maybe not on Cooper Flagg's side, but I think it goes to show that, I mean, this is what great players do when you're struggling. You're still able to do things and put up almost a double double here. so i'm not too worried about Cooper Flagg and i think the bigger picture here is about how things are looking throughout the rest of the team how is the pairings gonna go we also saw of course Sergio he's looking like a real guy i mean he played 22 minutes 9 points 7 rebounds four assists i mean i don't know if it's crazy to say he's out playing i mean Marcus Sasser didn't play i mean there's a world where they start with Sergio as the backup point guard instead of Sasser and Sasser is kind of a combo guard but Sergio looked really really good and people are starting to kind of speak about it we saw this in our in our video from i think it was the other day before yesterday and this one of the commenters really like starting to like Sergio had an amazing game also importantly going three from three from three or racking up six assists nice to see him finally shooting well and a lot of it did translate to the second preseason game here so Jace what are your thoughts on him um one for three from three which you know take a couple steals as well i think he is also plus 34 plus minus doesn't really matter much but plus 34 it's exciting that's what i was going to bring up I was like listen I know that plus minuses are kind of hard to judge by but plus 34 is insane like that's just that's kind of diabolical when you think about it especially when you won by what 17 18 so uh I I think when you look at Delaria he's becoming more and more of what the Mavericks want in a backup point guard and in my opinion is taking over the role that Marcus Marcus Sasser was trying to you know you know get when they traded for him but at the same time again it is preseason it is a lot to still like you know ride out here and finish out But I mean, games are starting this month, so I'm really excited to see what kind of comes from this preseason of Sergio Delladore and kind of the plus minuses that he hasn't done. He was the only guy in the positive last game two days ago versus the Rockets. Now he's the one who had the plus 34, which I mean, it almost seems like a typo in some ways, but he's very, very solid. I am obviously really excited to see what Kyrie and Cooper can do together in the regular season. This is kind of a taste of it. And even like you said, bad, bad game for for Cooper when it comes to the grand scheme of things. minus nine overall and it wasn't fantastic but still Kyrie and Cooper put up 31 points so i'm gonna be happy with that yeah i'm all in and overreacting it's it's fun to do let us know down below what your guys thought sir we'll see