The 2024/25 season Cooper Flagg promises to be challenging! Fortunately, the “little” prodigy from Duke has a well-made head and seems to resist media pressure rather well. Above all, he focuses primarily on basketball, far from the media projections which already place him number 1 in the 2025 Draft.
Even if he is the big favorite to succeed Zaccharie Risacher next year, Cooper Flagg is taking the steps one after the other before proclaiming himself number 1. Pretending that he will arrive in first place in the next Draft is not is obviously not the style of the house.
A “hype” to feed
“Absolutely not”, he replied to ESPN from the Duke campus where he continues his preparation for his first college season. “It’s a day-to-day job. I'm just focused on what needs to be done today with my team. For me, it's just about focusing on my team, this upcoming season and what we have to do. The Draft is not something that worries me or even that I think about at the moment.”
Words which necessarily please his Duke coach, Jon Scheyer, who can be delighted to see his prospect 100% concerned about his mission with the Blue Devils, at the age of 17.
“Of course he has to prove things first. I've seen guys who were projected number 1 in the Draft and who got there, and then others who were also supposed to be there but who didn't go, because they already imagined that it would work. arrive “he recalled. “That’s why I don’t assume anything. I know Cooper doesn't either. He will deserve his place, at the end of the road, based on what he has done. I think he has already shown things that make people talk about him. And I know he's eager to continue this momentum…At the end of the day, I believe in Cooper. But again, we have a long way to go before we start thinking about all that.”
