{"id":699256,"date":"2026-04-05T07:40:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699256\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T07:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:40:45","slug":"stats-rundown-3-numbers-to-know-from-cooper-flaggs-51-point-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699256\/","title":{"rendered":"Stats Rundown: 3 numbers to know from Cooper Flagg\u2019s 51-point night"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Mavericks<\/a> played the Orlando Magic<\/a> on Friday night, losing 138-127<\/a>. Dallas kept things close for most of the first half, but fell behind big in the third quarter and couldn\u2019t recover from there despite a big game from Cooper Flagg.<\/p>\n

51: Cooper Flagg\u2019s point total<\/p>\n

Flagg was in peak form Friday night, making a push for Rookie of the Year while still playing within both himself and the team\u2019s flow. Flagg is aware there is precious little time left to make his case for ROY, and may have caught wind of ESPN\u2019s straw poll that currently has him as runner up<\/a>. He put on a highly efficient show against Orlando, going 19-for-30 from the floor including 6-for-9 from deep. He scored from everywhere \u2013 dunks that ended with him hanging from the rim like Spider-Man, a variety of midrange jumpers, and a few from beyond the arc including a nice step-back. According to Statsmuse, Flagg joins Michael Jordan as the only rookies with multiple 45-point games since the NBA-ABA merger. He is also the youngest player (and first teenager) to ever have a 50-point game!<\/p>\n

71: First half points given up by the Mavs<\/p>\n

Offense was not lacking for either team, but if you believed Dallas took a lead into halftime with their 58 points, no one would blame you. Instead, they trailed by 13 points. They allowed Orlando to shoot just north of 57% from both beyond the arc and overall in the first half. Things didn\u2019t improve much from there, as the Magic carried nearly those same absurdly inflated percentages throughout the rest of the game as well.<\/p>\n

14:The number of three-pointers made by each team<\/p>\n

The Mavericks are not the most prolific or effective three-point shooting team, so it was nice to see Klay Thompson and Max Christie get hot in the early going. Cooper Flagg joined them and the trio combined to make 13 from beyond the arc (Naji Marshall made one as well). Matching the other teams\u2019 makes from deep is an accomplishment for the Mavs, however it took Dallas 16 more attempts than Orlando to make those 14 treys.<\/p>\n

I invite you to follow me @_80MPH<\/a> on X, and check back often at Mavs Moneyball<\/a> for all the latest on the Dallas Mavericks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks played the Orlando Magic on Friday night, losing 138-127. Dallas kept things close for most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,48,39459,52332,6,47,76,3883],"class_list":{"0":"post-699256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-magic","10":"tag-mavericks-game-coverage","11":"tag-mavericks-scores","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-orlando","14":"tag-orlando-magic","15":"tag-orlandomagic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116350971683637846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}