Lakers first-round decide Dalton Knecht is among the greatest steals of the season and he has spoken actually about slipping down the ranks, after being anticipated to go prime ten.
Shockingly, when draft day arrived, he was chosen by the Lakers because the seventeenth general decide and he’s utilizing it as gas.
“There’s simply extra motivation that these groups slipped and the Lakers had full perception in me. It doesn’t matter what, I’m going to place within the work. However it’s further motivation for me to even preserve placing in additional work. Similar to once I was a child in Southern Colorado making an attempt to make a D-1 group with all my guys on the market [at Prairie View High School]. Nothing actually adjustments. I’m staying who I’m. I’m getting pictures up within the fitness center. I attempt to care for my physique. I attempt to be the perfect general group participant that I may be,” Knecht instructed Sportskeeda’s Mike Media.
After one of many Lakers first video games, Charles Barkley ripped the league’s normal managers for letting him slip so low.
“Initially, these NBA Common Managers don’t have any concept what they’re doing,” Barkley mentioned on TNT’s Contained in the NBA. “Letting the Lakers get Dalton Knecht was one of many stupidest issues I’ve ever seen. That’s a nasty boy proper there. Dalton Knecht, keep in mind that identify y’all.”
The rookie has been spectacular to start out the season, averaging 7.7 factors, 0.7 rebounds and 1.7 assists on 50 % capturing from the sphere and 41.7 % capturing from three in simply 16.3 minutes.
“I’m simply going to exit and hoop,” Knecht mentioned. “I’ll be who I’m and do regardless of the group wants me to do. I’ll exit and compete. I’ll at all times have a chip on my shoulder, whether or not they drafted me or not. If I’m not their group, I’ll have a chip it doesn’t matter what. If I’m enjoying any group, I’m going to have a chip on my shoulder as a result of that’s who I’m.”
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