{"id":700362,"date":"2026-04-05T22:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700362\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T22:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:53:14","slug":"cooper-flagg-gets-brutally-honest-on-learning-how-to-lose-with-dallas-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700362\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg Gets Brutally Honest on Learning ‘How to Lose’ With Dallas Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Mavericks<\/a> have had a horrific season. They’re currently 24-53 before a matchup against the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday night, and while the Lakers will be missing Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves, the Mavs have no intention of winning games. <\/p>\n

That’s despite Cooper Flagg being a superhuman rookie. He may not win Rookie of the Year, but it’s not for a lack of trying. He’s coming off a 51-point outing in a loss to the Orlando Magic on Friday night, the most points ever scored by a teenager in NBA history. <\/p>\n

But the losing has started to get to Flagg. Before that masterpiece of a game on Friday, he appeared on the “Young Man and the Three” podcast with Tommy Alter, along with Ryan Nembhard and Max Christie, where he got honest about how hard this year has been for him. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely tough, like there was times in the start of the year where it was taking a big toll on me, not personally, but mentally. I don\u2019t want to talk for anybody else, but it\u2019s definitely tough. Family\u2019s freaking out like my mom, especially, she hadn\u2019t been in or seen me lose that much before, so she\u2019s worried about me, and then it\u2019s just like you\u2019re trying to move on each night, but it\u2019s tough,” Flagg started. <\/p>\n

“You got to learn how to lose I think and learn how to take positives away and know that you might have another one tomorrow or you get one day and you got another one the next day so I think that was a big learning curve for me was just learning how to lose and how to bounce back a little bit quicker and kind of get over it quicker than previous. I mean, we lost four games last year in college, and every time we lost, we had four or five days in between to go through all the film, you know, you start working on drills from the game, like different things that you have to work on.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks have had a horrific season. They’re currently 24-53 before a matchup against the Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-700362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallasmavericks","12":"tag-mavericks","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116354561243559195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700362","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=700362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}