Pat Doney breaks down Cooper Flagg’s impact in high school & his elite competitiveness

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NBC 5's Pat Doney joined Bobby and RJ to share what he learned from his trip to Maine, where he visited the hometown of Cooper Flagg. Pat detailed how Flagg became a basketball legend in the state after just one high school season and explained the deep passion Maine fans have for him. He also broke down Flagg’s intensity, competitiveness, and character on and off the court. Pat believes Flagg could be special for Dallas and urges Mavs fans to embrace the 18-year-old and give him a fair chance.

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00:00high school basketball is king in the state of maine that is the thing and that's what the story

00:20on nbc tonight opens up with is about how important basketball and high school basketball is in that

00:26state because as one of their sports directors at the local radio station there said in maine in the

00:33winter time as you mentioned a second ago chop i mean it's 20 degrees and snowy just about every

00:37single day so no one wants to do anything outside and so everybody's looking for a way to gather

00:44his community and so the way we look at maybe high school football here in texas that's how they look

00:49at basketball there and cooper flag is the greatest player in maine basketball history despite the

00:56fact he only played one season there as a freshman that's how good he was as a freshman there he won

01:02the gatorade national player of the year and he was mr basketball and he led nicomas high school

01:08this small program a 1a program that is never very good they won one game two years before he was there

01:16as a freshman and his freshman year he led them to the state championship and his high school coach

01:22we did this great interview guy named earl anderson wonderful guy we're sitting on his back porch by

01:28the way with the lake behind and it was just a beautiful place and as we're talking he's talking

01:33about how they purposefully knew that cooper's team that freshman year was going to be very good

01:39and so they arranged it in the preseason to where they would play against the best teams in the state

01:46of maine and he looks at me and this is the preseason before he started his freshman year

01:50he goes he was the best player on the floor that was not even close it was before his freshman year

01:57began and so i'm talking to some of his teammates from middle school and rec league you know they were

02:02like yeah we thought he was good when in fourth grade when he was playing in the sixth grade league

02:07and he was the best player but then in seventh grade when he started dunking in games and then in eighth

02:12grade he averaged 20 a game in dunks in his eighth grade year we were like okay this kid is legit

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