The era of Cooper Flagg is about to begin
Training camp for Team USA cranked up in Las Vegas this weekend with stars like LeBron James, Steph Curry, Anthony Davis, Jayson Tatum, Anthony Edwards and of course the Select Team, which consists of young NBA players who may make the national team at some point.
And also Cooper Flagg.
Flagg is just 17 and has not played one minute of college basketball. Yet he’s on the Select Team. So how is he looking? Ask Orlando Magic and Select Team coach Jamahl Mosley: “Well, I hadn’t been around him, so just meeting him and talking to him the first day in practice the other day, you can just see the quiet confidence that he carries with himself. His ability to know what he’s capable of doing, but also the humility of knowing, ‘OK, I’m still trying to figure some of these things out at this level,’ but he’s not afraid of it. And that’s what, that’s one thing you can tell right away.
“[He has a] high basketball IQ, tough, willing to learn. He gets to the spots that he needs to for a shot a lot, able to get to the rim, great touch on his shot.
“I mean, he can play. There’s no in between. There’s me saying, in many different forms, he can just flat out play.”
That’s a pretty good endorsement.
We found this video of the practice but not much Flagg here.
However, this video shows him taking a shot against AD, which didn't end well..but the follow did. And there’s this clip. And this one too.
He’s 17 and he has the body of a 17-year-old. But Mosley appears to be correct: he can play.
