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Cooper Flagg is already forcing Mavericks to make a massive change

The Mavericks' Cooper Flagg point guard experiment may be more than that.

Dallas Mavericks, Cooper Flagg | Alex Goodlett/GettyImages

After the Dallas Mavericks drafted Cooper Flagg over the summer, Jason Kidd made it clear that he was going to play plenty of point guard as a rookie, as they wanted to make him "uncomfortable" and challenge him, and this has been his role over the last two games. Flagg was Dallas' starting point guard in the final two games of the preseason, with him most notably running the show in their last preseason game against the Los Angeles Lakers last night, which Kidd deemed as a "dress rehearsal.