{"id":465818,"date":"2025-10-23T08:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=465818"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:45:06","slug":"cooper-flaggs-debut-disappoints-despite-double-double-in-mavs-loss-to-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cooper-flaggs-debut-disappoints-despite-double-double-in-mavs-loss-to-spurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg\u2019s Debut Disappoints Despite Double-Double in Mavs Loss to Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"985\" data-end=\"1210\"><strong data-start=\"985\" data-end=\"1001\">Cooper Flagg<\/strong> recorded a <strong data-start=\"1013\" data-end=\"1055\">double-double (10 points, 10 rebounds)<\/strong> in his NBA debut, but the <strong data-start=\"1082\" data-end=\"1102\">Dallas Mavericks<\/strong> were crushed 125-92 by the <strong data-start=\"1130\" data-end=\"1151\">San Antonio Spurs<\/strong>. \u201cNot great,\u201d the top pick admitted after a tough night.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1212\" data-end=\"1454\">Flagg, starting at <strong data-start=\"1231\" data-end=\"1246\">point guard<\/strong>, shot 4-for-13 and had three turnovers, while <strong data-start=\"1293\" data-end=\"1314\">Victor Wembanyama<\/strong> stole the show with <strong data-start=\"1335\" data-end=\"1364\">40 points and 15 rebounds<\/strong>. \u201cHe looked more poised than I expected,\u201d said <strong data-start=\"1412\" data-end=\"1430\">Stephon Castle<\/strong>, who added 22 points.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1456\" data-end=\"1674\">Coach <strong data-start=\"1462\" data-end=\"1476\">Jason Kidd<\/strong> praised his rookie\u2019s effort: \u201cHe played well and will learn from this.\u201d Despite a game-worst -29 plus\/minus, Flagg stayed upbeat: \u201cIt hurts, but we\u2019ll move forward and be ready for the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C1ZFEsfdNdc?si=_Cxxtu85M_Vkg2Jk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Flagg recorded a double-double (10 points, 10 rebounds) in his NBA debut, but the Dallas Mavericks were crushed 125-92 by the San Antonio Spurs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":465817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-465818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/hq720-3.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465818"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=465818"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=465818"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=465818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}