I like Ace's game more as well, but I think the arguments you're making in this video are very flawed. You start off with explosive scorer, and then you proceed to list everyone who is or isn't an explosive scorer in the nba as an example. The issue is we're ranking prospects that haven't touched the nba floor. Obviously, players that can score explosively at the nba level are going to be seen as successful. You listed players like zion and markelle fultz as non-explosive scorers, but they were averaging more in college than players like cade cunningham and anthony edwards. Explosive scoring prospects have been unsuccessful in the nba. Using nba results to gauge nba prospects is just hindsight thinking. If Cooper Flagg ends up averaging more than Ace Bailey in the NBA, are you going to say Flagg was a more explosive scoring prospect? Then you use player comparisons as another factor in gauging prospects. Sure, I'd rather have kevin durant over andrei kirilenko. However, we have no idea how these players will live up to these comparisons. I'd take rich man's kirilenko over dollar store durant any day of the week. There are so many draft comparisons that age so poorly. Giannis had a draft comparison of Evan Turner, and Deandre Ayton had a draft comparison of David Robinson. Flagg could easily surpass Kirilenko, and Bailey could just as easily fall short of Paul George. There's a lot more nuance to evaluating prospects than just player archetypes. Finally, you made an argument using "Aura". This is actually just ridiculous. How are you even defining aura? How much players fear another player? Is it based of confidence? Personality? If it's fear, that can be earned just from scoring a bunch on other teams. If aura can be earned by nba success, then you are once again resorting to hindsight thinking to evaluate prospects. If it's confidence, I don't think either player lacks confidence. If it's personality, I would have to say there are plenty of players that have bland personalities that have found success (Jokic, Kawhi, Tim Duncan, etc.). Using aura before either player has played an NBA minute has to be a terrible metric in prospect evaluation. There are way too many players that can light it up in high school and fall short in the NBA. You should have went further into each player's strengths and weaknesses. You could have said something along the lines of "This move of Flagg will not work in the NBA for this reason, this weakness is a bigger issue, etc." Instead, you went into all this intangible talk, and you end up with 10 minutes of minimal substance.

i've watched Cooper a lot lately and he doesn't need to score 50 points to be an all nba player he does what he need to for his team to win

this is how you end up with jalen green on your team with the number 2 pick instead of evan mobley or scottie barnes

Yo why you stop? I'm at day 7 with my son. Hes 11 and is way better than anyone around. LFG. Need all 30 of these.

Better comparison for Cooper is LeBron. I call him LeBlond Flagg

😂😂😂😂😂😂 You are a Meme

Lebron, AD, Steph, KD, and Bam don't agree with you.

Yo what happened to the series

You said Zion (who’s arguably best and most explosive scorer out of number #1 picks) isn’t explosive so your criteria of who’s an explosive scorer who’s not is probably stupid. I love how you don’t talk about of how coop clears him in other aspects like passing, defense, and functioning without the ball, Bailey is nowhere near coop if we’re being real

Cooper gets the love because he’s the medias great white hope, but Ace is significantly better than Flagg

Cooper gets all the love because he’s the great white hope the media is praying for, but Ace is better, in every aspect.

This aged like already rotten milk .

Cooper Flag is better than Bailey

i bet yall regretting ya decision now cooper flagg is clearly better

cooper flagg is a generational talent and a lock for #1 pick praying my spurs get him and we have a dynasty

And yet they are not half as good as Luka was at 17 :)

Coop = taller luka Bailey = amare stoudemire modern

cooper like 22p 5a 9r - ace like 27p 3a 5r

You cookin

Really great analysis bro you bodied this just subbed I Agree I love cooper as a prospect but I agree ACE is better . The game is about a bucket and although he’s not as a good of defender as cooper he still has height length & athleticism on his side he could get better and be an effective defender. Cooper defensively versatility is insane tho and if he takes a leap offensively he still could out race ACE

So coop just owned the USA team but whatever

Flagg just dropped a nuclear bomb on this take with his scrimmage vs team USA

NBA is a business. Cooper Flag is good but gets more hype cause, like Larry Birds's quote, "we need more white star players. Bring in more business

1 of my coworkers haa been talking about Bailey for momths

Cooper just rocked USA basketball team in Vegas 😊

Zion what? I was rocking with you until you said that crazy stuff! Boo

Watch this 🤝🏾Ⓜ️

I love how some idiot saids Coop can’t drop 50 why because he’s not a ball hog I hate when people think they know how to grade players how many 50 point games did Jordan have before he made the NBA

People fear Edey and Ja and JJJ

coop clearly better but it's close

Coop reminds me of Andre Kirilenko.. versatile on both ends of the court and can shoot 3 (though Andre was more aggressive in my opinion). Very talented indeed but at this point, Coop still has to improve to show he can be a franchise player. If he really gets to be drafted #1, hopefully he has significantly developed by then as a more aggressive and strong leader.. he's seems to be a nice kid, we don't want him to be in those draft bust lists.

Ace been #1

Did Ace recently school some NBA legends ?

It doesn’t matter if he goes number 1 or not. You see his ceiling from his highlights. I’m sure an nba team will be just as happy to land Bailey if they don’t get Flagg.

Bailey has a smoother game than Flagg. But ultimately I think they’re both gonna give an nba team the same overall strengths.

you're drunk.. cooper is A+ .. bailey is a solid B.. get a clue.

My Man...great breakdown!!! you seem to be a ball junkie! Got my support

the era of the iso ball superstar is over in the NBA. we are in the “3&d era”. why? it’s too easy to score due to all the spacing. a good scorer with great spacing can do more than a great scorer with poor spacing. thus, you actually have to build a total team now. it’s not about one dude getting buckets. the celtics realized this and build a championship team without a superstar. you better be able to defend and rotate on defense.

Ngl fam, you missed with this one but it’s aight, just sit back and enjoy the show

Cooper is pro ready. He showed it when he was playing the ball of fame USA team. He was better than some of them and he is 17. Looking forward to seeing Ace play

Wembanana? Who the fuck that? Zach Edey my King.

Wrong, GOAT like performance.

He played great against team usa

This is cool and all but they draft from college stats and Cooper has shown he can do this stuff against anyone. He's just not a ballhog type of guy. Ace Bailey can get you 40 points but he also has games where he's completely useless not scoring and getting a bunch of turnovers. But either way you've made the argument for better and also talking about the seed. If you think Bailey gets the 1st seed over Flagg? Sure, no issue with that. But who's better? I think Bailey won't have a long promising career if he doesn't fix some huge issues. Flagg is currently NBA ready. He just won't be the main guy getting the buckets as of now. Cooper Flagg might become an AD type of player. He will probably get a little bit taller still, last I checked he's now the same height as Bam Adebayo and Bam is amazing right now. But Flagg his defense is actually amazing. Once he gains some muscles and is done growing I expect him to have a long successful career and him not getting 1st seed won't matter. Cause even though I think Flagg is for sure better, I can totally see him not score that much on this stacked Duke team while Bailey will ball hog and score a lot so yeah he could take that 1st seed.

Ain’t no way people compared Shawn Merion and AK-47 to Cooper Flagg…

Comparing Flagg to Gordon Haywood is insane. Who ever said that should lose their job.

Another prospect you gotta look at is vj edgecomb he’s gonna be a problem and he was cooking pro players at 18

The ceiling of Ace Bailey is higher becasue he can do all the KD/PG/TMAC offense at that ceiling. But if ends up being like a 37% three point shooter, his game impact drastically goes down. If Flagg is a 37% 3pt shooter I still think he is an allnba level player. In the nba truly there are only about 10 guys who are the top of the top of leading an offense. If your best on ball creator isnt in that top 10 your team isnt good. Everybody can use a Flagg type. Not everybody can use a Bailey type.

Dude spends the whole video talking about similarities with past big men that didn't pan out. Doesn't spend a second talking about the differences between Edey and them.