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He 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:47.880 had a thirteen game stretch late in the year where 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.200 averaged twenty six points, seven rebounds, and six assists with 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.280 two point seven stocks per game. Got to the foul 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.240 and a ton in that stretch. Seven free throw attempts 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.800 per game is downhill attack earned him quite a few 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.920 trips to the free line. The shooting his jump shot 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:05.120 not good, zero point eight three points per shot, broken 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.520 down by distance when he was inside of seventeen feet 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:11.800 forty three percent, twos outside of seventeen feet thirty three percent. 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.000 Threes just under thirty percent, like twenty nine and a 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.400 half break down by type twenty eight percent off. The 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:22.440 catch really struggled when he was unguarded, just under twenty 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.120 seven percent on catch and shoot threes when he was 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.320 open and on film. One of the big things that 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.240 stood out to me when I was prepping for this, 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.040 he really slows down his. 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:34.600 Release on catch and shoot threes. 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:38.360 Like if you watch the difference between when Coop takes 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.240 a pull up pull up threes or pull up twos, 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.080 he really takes off and gets a bunch of lift. 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.000 I'm talking like you'll see you freeze frame in He's 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.040 got his legs extended in there, like two two and 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.040 a half feet off the ground, Like he jumps on 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.320 his pull up jump shots, then on his catch and 0:02:55.320 --> 0:03:00.480 shoot threes, he like really slows himself down. He barely jumps, 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.280 and it's almost like he's taking a set shot. And 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:04.960 one of the things you'll notice is he leaves a 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.840 lot of those catch and shoot threes short off the 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.520 front of the rim because of that kind of difference 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:12.600 in his lift. Now, what ends up happening when you 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.840 do that when you jump really high on one and 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.880 then like set shot on the other. You know, between 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.280 catch and shoot and off the off the dribble jump shots, 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.560 you end up having problems with both because there's no 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.560 consistency between the two. Like I've talked about this before, 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.040 like when you're taking a catch and shoot three or 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.680 you're taking a step back three. If I take the 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.400 step back three video, and let's say you know, you 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.520 do an in and out to a crossover hard step 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.720 to your left, you plant that left foot way out 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.240 to catch your momentum, and then you rise in fire. 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.119 If I pause right there on, when your feet gets 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:50.080 set and I play the video, it should look exactly 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.200 like your catch and shoot jump shot, with exception of 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.920 Like obviously, there are certain situations like post fades, you know, 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.280 mid range fades where like you know you're snaking a 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.000 pick and roll in your taken off at the elbow 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.280 and landing damn near at the other elbow. Yeah, there 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.240 are certain types of shots, especially in the mid range 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:10.480 where you're like drifting, but specifically threes. I don't care 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.760 if you're taking it against the drop coverage just like 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:14.920 off a hesitation dribble, or you're taking it off of 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.720 a side step step back, whatever it might be. If 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.039 you're taking it off of the catch, if you're taking 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.359 it off the move off of the catch, if I 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.880 freeze frame off of you, like right when your feet 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.120 gets set and play the video, they should all look 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.480 the same. That's your best chance to have consistency there. 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:32.680 And again, I'm not trying to be overly critical of 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.440 Coop here, like this is actually a super common trend 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:39.680 among like young basketball players, aspiring shooters, players that are 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.200 still learning how to shoot. But I think that's gonna 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.080 be what kind of helps turn around things for Cooper 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.719 with his jump shot is just getting some consistency in 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.080 the amount of lift that he uses on both his 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.240 off the catch shots as well as his off the 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.479 dribble shots. He was thirty eight percent on pull up 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.320 twos broke down, like we talked about earlier, is better 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.679 when he was inside of seventeen feet on pull up threes. 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.240 Now the jump shot is a real swing skill for Cooper. 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.600 We're going to talk more about specific play types in 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:08.800 a few minutes, but one of the consistent things that 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:10.799 really stood out to me when I was watching Cooper's 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.599 film is that his size, the downhill force that he 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.480 plays with, and then his vertical pop make it really 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.640 easy for him to get good looks at pull of 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.640 jump shots. Like there's a certain unguardability to being that big, 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.640 that athletic, that aggressive towards the rim, but also having 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.760 the ability to rise and fire from any spot on 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.520 the floor. Cooper was getting good looks at jump shots, 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.440 he just wasn't making them. Once he becomes an elite 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.800 jump shooter, the sky's the limit, and he had some 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.080 really strong indicators from his rookie season, like he was 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.799 eighty three percent at the foul line, he was fifty 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:48.520 two percent on over one hundred and fifty floaters like 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.200 that shows that he has really good touch. So it's 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.640 just about tying together all those details, thousands of reps 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.239 to continue to refine the touch, some just slight changes 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.320 to his form to get some more consistency between the 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.640 different types of shots that he takes. He's going to 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.960 have to pay the price at the gym over the 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.480 next few summers, just thousands and thousands and thousands of reps. 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.719 But if he does, he'll reap those rewards. 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:13.320 And I think he's going to reach a level of 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:17.159 unguardability with that pull up jump shot short range scoring. 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.359 Like we mentioned, fifty two percent one hundred and fifty 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.680 one attempts on floaters, had a little hook shot, didn't 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:23.360 take a ton of them. Who's sixteen for twenty seven, 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.320 that's fifty nine percent. Had some really impressive work in 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.479 low volume in the post, which we'll talk about in 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:30.800 a minute, and then at the rim fifty eight percent, 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.200 which really is a respectable number for a rookie, a 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.120 high volume in poor spacing. He also got there a 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.520 ton six point seven attempts per game. That's really strong volume. 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.799 As a matter of fact, he ranked twenty first. Cooper 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.840 flag ranked twenty first in the entire NBA in the 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:46.960 volume of attempts at the rim. He got to the 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.320 rim more than Shako's Alexander. As a counter examples, really 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:54.320 really impressive aggressiveness from Cooper driving the basketball. We'll talk 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.200 about all the different ways here in a minute. Let's 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.680 get into play times. Really effective in transition one point 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.200 two two points per possession on over three hundred possessions, 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.880 so three hundred and sixty six total transition points last year, 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.800 which ranked twenty fourth in the entire NBA. Twenty fourth 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:14.000 in the entire NBA, and transition points spot up possessions Cooper. 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.080 You know, he didn't shoot well like twenty eight point 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.400 six percent on spot up threes, but he showed real 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:22.600 upside attacking closeouts last year and finishing in the short 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.600 range on wonderful pull ups in at the rim, which 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:30.040 really boosted his his spot up efficiency despite poor jump shooting. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.280 He's just really good at taking those closeouts, turning that like, 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:34.880 you know, kind of like throwing that little pump fake 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.160 and turning his shoulder, getting that leverage and just going 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:41.440 screaming downhill. This is what's so impressive about that to 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.160 shoot twenty eight point six percent on spot up threes, 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.680 but because he made fifty seven twos driving closeouts and 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.680 shot almost sixty percent on them, he actually converted spot 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.960 ups at zero point ninety nine points per possessions is 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:59.120 below average, but only barely like just barely below average, 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.240 and better than you'd think considering he couldn't make catch 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.400 and shoot threes like he was a legitimate threat in 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.640 spot up situations because of his drives. And another thing 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.080 where if he figures out that catch and shoot piece, 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:13.440 he can become even more devastating attacking in off ball 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.600 situations when he gets to catch on the perimeter against 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.000 a closeout pick and roll. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:19.080 Now this I. 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:20.880 Actually thought this was one of the more impressive parts 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.640 of Coop's game. Last year he ran seven hundred and 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.200 seventeen pick and roll. It's pretty high volume. Got zero 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.640 point nine to three points per possession including passes forty 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.800 fourth percentile, so just below average. But on film you 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.000 can really see the vision of him eventually becoming a 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.640 very efficient, very talented pick and roll player. First of all, 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.959 it gives him his best ability to get downhill as 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:44.120 an initiator in the half court. Like we'll talk more 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.000 about ISO in a minute, but Io was one of 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.000 the uglier parts for me when I was watching Coop's 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.440 film because his first step quickness is not like a 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:54.640 strength of his right, Like, he's not dusting good defenders 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.840 off the dribble unless they're closing out at him, you know, 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.600 in some sort of advantage situation. But the ball screen 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.719 pretty naturally gets the defender into trail position as he's 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.080 chasing you over the top of the screen, right, And 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.480 he's really talented when he gets into those circumstances. He 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.120 can start and stop his speed, you know, like you know, 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.640 is patient with his attacks, doesn't rush into the lane, 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:16.920 puts the defender in jail. He's big and strong enough 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.120 to kind of pin the defender on his backside. He 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.240 has really good footwork, man Like. 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.600 There were there were some plays. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.160 There was one I can't even remember which team he 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.320 was playing against, where he kind of gets over the 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.760 top of the screen, has the defender and trail position, 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.439 stops and puts him in jail for a second, drives 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.680 down the left lane line, engages the big. The big 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.520 steps over and he just like pivots into a spin 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:42.400 move through the second defender who's trying to trap him 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:43.880 from behind, and then goes all the way to the 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.400 right side of the basket and finishes with the layup. 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.880 And I'm like, man like the way that he could cause. Again, like, 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.040 athleticism is one thing, but footwork is the tool that 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.320 allows you to use your athleticism. Footwork is what gets 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.040 you from point A to point B right Like, think 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.520 of it more like natural talent versus technique. Athleticism is 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.000 a natural talent. Footwork is a technique. You can have 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:08.080 great athleticism but not have a usefulness on the basketball 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:09.679 court if you don't know how to move from one 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:13.079 spot to the other. Cooper has excellent footwork on all 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.400 of his counters, spin move step throughs, euro steps, all 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.480 that kind of stuff. He just has excellent footwork on 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.559 his drives. And then he has the short range scoring piece. 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.960 This is huge, the huge upside for him in the 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.199 short term. Right, like I talk about his jump shot, 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.560 his jump shot is gonna come around eventually, but like 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.160 right away, he can stop short of the rim and 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.480 make these floaters and make them at a pretty high clip, 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.560 and so that makes him a very very good pick 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.400 and role player already, with a lot of potential to 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.480 improve as the jump shot continues to come around. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.360 Now, he's not the most high level. 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.840 Playmaker you'll ever watch, Like he'll sometimes get into trouble 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:47.960 on his drives and like leave his feet early to 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.760 throw a reckless pass or force something to the roller 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.480 that's not there. But he's always been very good at 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.400 taking easy reads that show up in these actions. He 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.319 showed he'd like through some really impressive skip passes to 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.920 the opposite court out of double teams and you know 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.280 ball screens where a low man comes over, not just 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:06.800 in pick and roll but also in ISO's He had 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.679 a couple ISO post ups where like he faced doubles 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.040 and like dribbled away to get some space and then 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.559 like through a beautiful crosscourt pass to the opposite corner 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.560 that some Mavericks player would miss because no one on 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:21.000 that team could shoot last year. But uh, like the 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.120 the it's the easy reads where he excels. Like when 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.640 there's like a guy getting left open as part of 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.280 the coverage, he'll take advantage of it. Nail help simple 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:32.000 swing pass, you know, like lob passes. If the big 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.319 steps up in ball screen, he'll hit the occasional lob 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.880 pass to like Musasise or you know Marvin Bagley before 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:41.000 he left the team. But he'll he'll run inverted screens 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:42.720 with guards too, and like he'll just throw a little 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.760 pitch to you know Max Christy or Klay Thompson slipping 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.520 out of the screen and like a guard guard screen. 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.280 Like he makes all the simple reads. It gets him 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:53.280 downhill where he's very good at changing pace and using 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.760 advanced footwork to get to his spots. Has the short 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:57.920 range scoring to kind of tie it off in the 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.920 short term. Once again, the jumper will be the swing skill. 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:02.679 If he can get the pull up three into the 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.720 high thirties, the pull up two into the low fifties. 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.920 I think the rim pressure, the short range scoring, the playmaking, 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.040 I think he could all come together and he could 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:12.480 become a really high level pick and. 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.480 Roll player ISO. 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.959 These were probably the ugliest reps I watched from him 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:18.960 in my film study, out of any of the play types. 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:22.000 The numbers are actually okay, zero point nine points per possession, 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.680 which is like, you know, just a little bit below average, 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:26.520 kind of like pick and roll for him. But it's 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.920 more about the film here, Like when he's going against Smalls, 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.920 he can just relatively easily overpower his way close to 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:34.800 the basket for one of his floaters that he shoots 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.120 pretty well. It did pretty well against Smalls, But anytime 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.280 he runs into a player, he can't overpower like a 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.760 bigger forward, He can kind of struggle to turn the 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:43.920 corner in ISOs with his first step, and then it 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.400 turns into a lot of contested mid range jump shots. 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.560 Now once again, the upside there is if he can 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.440 become a better jump shooter because he does have the 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.320 ability to get the pull up off because of his 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.400 height in the threat of his drive. So really again 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.880 it's just the thing is is like he does have 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.800 a foundational trait which is a size strength and athleticism 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.239 when he's downhill. So pick and roll has a foundational 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.640 trait for him because it kind of has a baked 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.280 in angle for him by virtue of the screen. Right 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.920 ISOs are tougher for him because he doesn't have access 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.880 to his foundational trait as much, but he still has 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.000 the ability to shoot over the top. So that's why 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.400 the jump shot such a such a swing skill for him. 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:19.640 There. 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:24.040 Post ups, though, are another angle that don't are another 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.960 kind of like situation that take the emphasis off of 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.640 his first step quickness and put the emphasis on his size, 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.040 which is a strength for him. The post ups look 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.680 flat out awesome and are a really exciting part of 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.000 his development and something that I think MAVs fans should 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.079 be really excited about and that the MAVs coaching staff 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.840 should be looking to explore more. One point one seven 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.120 points per attempts on points per possession on fifty four 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:50.319 reps including passes, that's in the seventy ninth percentile inefficiency. 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.440 He personally shot sixty one percent on his own shot 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:54.680 attempts out of the post. 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:55.120 This year. 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.840 Again, the post up unlocks three of Cooper's best traits. 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.640 His size is excellent footwork like we talked about, and 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.240 he's short range scoring a lot of times, Like he'll 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.120 just get into those spots and he will literally just 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.439 rather than backing a dude down, he'll catch on the 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.000 left block with the ball in his right hand and 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:13.960 he'll just dribble into the lane and take a floater. 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.439 But again, like he's already close to the basket, he 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.560 doesn't need to turn the corner. He's just trying to 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:19.960 like get a little bit of an angle to take 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.040 a little floater right. But like he can pivot over 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.520 either shoulder. He's got like a little short turnaround jump 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.320 shots where he's more efficient there than he is when 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.640 he's further away from the basket. There's a lot of 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.120 upside for Cooper there out of the post that I 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.120 want to see him continue to explore. And again he's 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.200 got a nice little hook shot too that I think 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.600 he could use even more. On defense, I thought it 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.400 was a really solid first campaign showcase high level off 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.800 ball defense as a secondary rim protector as well as 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:50.280 jumping passing lanes. Had some really impressive blocks on rotations 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.560 at the rim. He can, like even on some of 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.920 these ISOs where he's defending, he can like get beat 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.040 on the ground, but just recover and block that shit, 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.760 just simply because of the athletic tools that he has. Statistically, 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.320 he was a great on ball defender. He defended sixty 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.720 two ISOs according to Synergy and allowed just sixteen made 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:11.200 shots and just four additional shooting fouls. So, in other words, 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.880 they scored on him just twenty times in sixty two 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.400 tries in ISO this season. It's really impressive. The main 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.560 guys he struggled with, if you look at the times 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:24.560 he did give up baskets, mostly power players like Pallo 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.000 went through his chest, you know, Jaylen Brown went through 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.120 his chest, Kawhi Leonard went through his chest. Like those 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.360 kinds of guys can power through him. As he's still 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.760 a smaller version of himself. He'll put on muscle, but 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:35.960 those are the only guys he's really struggling with there. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:37.920 But even then, like he can cause problems with his 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.880 length there, Like he had one where Nazried was trying 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:42.840 to bully him and he like pulled the chair and 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:44.240 then met him on the other side of the basket 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.560 and just blocked him off the glass or brandon Ingram 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.720 tried to like bury him on a post up towards 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.240 the short corner, and he just like overplayed the strong 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:52.960 hand and used his length to like knock the ball 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.400 away from him and get his steel. This is ultimately 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.400 what put Cooper into the top twenty five for me. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.960 I just think he has an extremely high floor. He's 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.000 a weapon in transition. He's a useful off ball player 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.040 because he can slash closeouts. He's a really good post 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.440 up player already. He's average and pick and roll right now, 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.240 but he's showing a lot of upside there that I 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.120 think he'll continue to figure out and their flaws that 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.960 I think are fixable for him. And he's a good 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:22.680 defensive player both on and off the ball. That's the 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.680 floor and the upside is crazy. Like I think he's 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.120 going to improve as a jump shooter. I think he's 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:29.440 gonna have a really good year as a pick and 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:33.400 roll player. His tools are outrageous. I think his post 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.640 up volume is going to get increased. I think we 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:40.120 can book Cooper for twenty three, seven and six this 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.240 year with high level defense, and I wouldn't be the 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:44.960 least bit shocked if he got up to twenty five 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:46.360 points per game. A lot of that just depends on 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.160 how healthy Kyrie Irving is and whether or not he 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:49.200 gets traded and how much. 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:49.880 Usage he gets. 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.000 But like, if he gets the ball anywhere near as 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:53.600 much as he got it last year, he's gonna get 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.400 to twenty five points a game. I'm a huge believer 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.200 in Cooper Flag. I think he's going to be several 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:02.000 spots higher than twenty five when we redo these rankings 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:05.119 a year from now. 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