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Like when AR and Knecht are on the court together.
**LA LAKERS THREAD** Sitting on 17! 2023-2024 offseason begins
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Don't judge me, but I'm watching the SB Lakers game. 
Traore is nice.
Traore is nice.
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Fienin waiting for the actual Lakers watching a SB Lakers gameDon't judge me, but I'm watching the SB Lakers game.
Traore is nice.
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darthska
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C CP1708 ,
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, do you have pods like this?I'll subscribe!
If you don't, I mean, look, all the essays of basketball knowledge you guys type on here, get some money out of it!
"It's so simple. I keep telling you guys that the Lakers just need to do this and this, and this. Super simple."
Cool, get paid for what you’ve figured out!
MIKE LOWERY
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Don't judge me, but I'm watching the SB Lakers game.
Traore is nice.
Feel like he doesn't really have a position. Great energy guy and has a feel where to be on the court. But they got him listed as a 3, and he's basically a thinner Tarik Black.
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Tranasis
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phil getting an Ponderosa Pine (MT state tree) tree planted his honor
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I miss Phil. Yelling at Dantoni, his press conferences, punching Pau in the chest calling him a p***y with a Spanish lisp….fun times
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Maybe Cam returns tomorrow, Rui on Thursday?
This or his famous whistle.
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Ya gotta be the whistle pose or stand and point.
darthska
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My vote is him holding up the triangle pose with his fingers
darthska
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Omg, so iconic.
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I’d want to see a Darvin Ham statue. 1st coach to win the cup….only right
darthska
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I've heard that it's really hard to do hands accurately on a statue.
Welp, no problem there.
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The funny thing to me, everytime I think of the triangle pose with the fingers, I think of the Lebron at the Olympics makin fun of Kobe. Classic video.
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Rookie of the Week: Dalton Knecht, SG, Lakers
The 17th pick in the draft, Knecht was pressed into service as a starter in two games this weekend and scored 14 and 27 points in a pair of Laker wins. That came on the heels of his 5-of-5 performance from 3 in a close win over Memphis. For the week he scored 60 points in 91 minutes, making 12 of his 19 3-point attempts, and only had one turnover in the three contests. Additionally, his 27 in New Orleans on Saturday was likely the difference between a win and a miserable defeat, as the rest of the Lakers had no juice on a back-to-back against the injury-riddled Pelicans’ skeleton crew.
At 40.4 percent from 3 on the year, Knecht is showing that the shooting package he flashed at Tennessee seems very real. He has a quick, high release that allows him to get his shot away against relatively close contests. While he has a relatively low arc for an elite shooter, the longer distance of the NBA shot hasn’t seemed to affect him thus far.
In fact, it’s not the percentage that stands out as much as the volume (10.4 3-point attempts per 100 possessions). Knecht requires very little space to get his shot away. As a result, he can get away looks like this one in the clip below relatively easily (even if this one missed). If you aren’t right in his grille on the catch, he’s going up with it:
Of late, the Lakers seem to be pushing just how much they can get from his movement shooting. The play above was a pindown they ran for him on the first play of the game in New Orleans, and they ran an ATO for him to shoot a 3 off a screen early in the Memphis game. They’ve also leaned harder into lineups with Knecht even though his defense is … ummm … let’s just say it’s less advanced than his offense.
However, Knecht’s presence in the starting group evens out a Laker lineup that is short on shooting, especially with D’Angelo Russell coming off the bench. As long as Austin Reaves and LeBron James can split the point guard duties, the Lakers can get by without a true point guard in the starting group.
Knecht hasn’t done as much off the dribble yet, but there’s some promise there. He scored that way often at Tennessee and has the athletic pop to get his own shot — he already has six dunks this year (and will surely get a hanging-on-the-rim tech before the year is out), including this DHO rope-a-dope against New Orleans:
It’s easy to get carried away when a rookie has a big game, and surely Knecht will hit more peaks and valleys as the year goes on. But the Lakers desperately needed to hit on a depth piece, especially one on a controlled contract, and shooting was their most glaring need coming into the year. It seems Knecht might be able to check all those boxes.
The 17th pick in the draft, Knecht was pressed into service as a starter in two games this weekend and scored 14 and 27 points in a pair of Laker wins. That came on the heels of his 5-of-5 performance from 3 in a close win over Memphis. For the week he scored 60 points in 91 minutes, making 12 of his 19 3-point attempts, and only had one turnover in the three contests. Additionally, his 27 in New Orleans on Saturday was likely the difference between a win and a miserable defeat, as the rest of the Lakers had no juice on a back-to-back against the injury-riddled Pelicans’ skeleton crew.
At 40.4 percent from 3 on the year, Knecht is showing that the shooting package he flashed at Tennessee seems very real. He has a quick, high release that allows him to get his shot away against relatively close contests. While he has a relatively low arc for an elite shooter, the longer distance of the NBA shot hasn’t seemed to affect him thus far.
In fact, it’s not the percentage that stands out as much as the volume (10.4 3-point attempts per 100 possessions). Knecht requires very little space to get his shot away. As a result, he can get away looks like this one in the clip below relatively easily (even if this one missed). If you aren’t right in his grille on the catch, he’s going up with it:
Of late, the Lakers seem to be pushing just how much they can get from his movement shooting. The play above was a pindown they ran for him on the first play of the game in New Orleans, and they ran an ATO for him to shoot a 3 off a screen early in the Memphis game. They’ve also leaned harder into lineups with Knecht even though his defense is … ummm … let’s just say it’s less advanced than his offense.
However, Knecht’s presence in the starting group evens out a Laker lineup that is short on shooting, especially with D’Angelo Russell coming off the bench. As long as Austin Reaves and LeBron James can split the point guard duties, the Lakers can get by without a true point guard in the starting group.
Knecht hasn’t done as much off the dribble yet, but there’s some promise there. He scored that way often at Tennessee and has the athletic pop to get his own shot — he already has six dunks this year (and will surely get a hanging-on-the-rim tech before the year is out), including this DHO rope-a-dope against New Orleans:
It’s easy to get carried away when a rookie has a big game, and surely Knecht will hit more peaks and valleys as the year goes on. But the Lakers desperately needed to hit on a depth piece, especially one on a controlled contract, and shooting was their most glaring need coming into the year. It seems Knecht might be able to check all those boxes.
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Welp.
