A lot of what you get from organizations and team executives is gamesmanship, as we have stated several times in the run-up to the NBA Draft. One player may be talked down to the media in the hopes that he would collapse and you will be able to capture him. As an alternative, you might try to recruit another athlete in the hopes that another gullible club would pick him up and you will be able to acquire the guy you truly desire.
When you are unable to directly alter your situation, you resort to manipulating the system and, well, psychological warfare.
Furthermore, you should pay attention to informed people when they share their thoughts about a player, even if you shouldn’t necessarily believe everything that club representatives and executives say or take anonymous sources seriously.
And while though NBA players have had radically differing views about Duke’s Cooper Flagg, you should definitely heed Chris Paul’s advice.
What is Paul’s opinion on Flagg, who Dallas is most likely to choose with the first overall choice later this month?
On the Pat McAfee program, this was said: “I’m a fan, just like everyone else. Like everyone else, I was watching the ping-pong balls at home in Los Angeles, and we were all going crazy when the Spurs broke into the top four. My teammates and I were asking ourselves, “What’s going to happen?” in the group chat. Cooper Flagg has been out there, and I’m in Los Angeles at the moment. He and I have gone to the gym together a few times, or whatever. He is just as genuine as he seems.
Paul, who played for the San Antonio Spurs the previous season, is a free agent, and Dallas has been floated as a potential destination. Even though Paul’s greatest years are obviously behind him, it’s incredible that he is still a viable NBA player at 40 and only 6-0.
For Dallas and Flagg, who is as much of a guard as a forward, he may be a great tutor.
In reality, he is a basketball player with nearly limitless skills on the floor. Paul’s NBA maturity might be greatly enhanced.
