Dalton Knecht Scores 37, Hits nine threes as Lakers Beat Jazz 124-118 for 6th Straight Win

[@jaymoney6233]

Dalton is gonna have some legendary games and I think that’s an understatement!This man is a ROOKIE and already has 2 games where he’s scored 20 CONSECUTIVE points 😂😂 he’s like 14 games into his career there are a lot of HOF players and NBA legends who don’t even have one game like that

[@stevesalinda5270]

An artist recognizes greatness in other artists. Everyone scoffed when JJ said Knecht is in the 1% of shooters but look at where we are now.

[@augustinekludze2811]

They swore it was coach speak 😂

[@PsychicThursday]

​@augustinekludze2811 to be fair, a lot of people did

[@curtiswhite2872]

I expected him to show out like this, but not so soon in his career. Let alone in his rookie season! He just became the third leg in the Lakers' big three.

[@WesR7009]

I expected this maybe next season, but I think JJ is the perfect coach to unlock him this early in his career. JJ is coaching like he has been doing it for 5-10 years.

[@Bkess22]

We finally got a Shooter…This guy is legit….Exciting times ahead 💯 🔥 🔥

[@JasonBrendan-td4qb]

I’ve been too negative this season. I did this in 2019-20. I need to learn to enjoy the good times. Go Lakers!!!

[@PsychicThursday]

Amen to that, bro

[@kennethgibbssr7836]

I'm impressed with this kid Dalton Knect he had a hot hand in preseason and I thought wonder if he can get hot in the regular season answer is He'll yeah !!!😮

[@Oberonz1]

Good times, now for the real, Next three games D4 will not be a surprise to the other team and those teams are playoff teams. Cam, Max and AD must be ready to defend on a higher level. If Lakers think defense first from here D4 etc will be better suited to succeed in his role too. Good Luck Lakers👍🏿

[@lengod2232]

You gotta think about it though with Knect starting who can you double or hell off on? And it works well with traces because he’s a great shooter as well

[@Oberonz1]

@ shooters are streaky, Duncan Robinson, Tyler Herro, Kevin Heurter, Ice Trey, Dame Lillard, Klay all have had down streaks, you need defense around them to weather those droughts. Bron and AD can carry anybody if they have defensive help on the perimeter. Max and Cam I hope can play together when needed.

[@trevorwinn5012]

Exactly , look how worn down Reaves was in the playoff series against GS lol , chasing Klay and Steph around , Hopefully Dalton can add that to this line up !

[@MaxieDog1359]

The past 2 years the Lakers have gotten off to such horrible starts that they played catch-up all year! Dalton is the player that could push the Lakers over the top. Great start Lakers!

[@gregpollard7158]

JJ has some Lineup & Rotation Choices to make with Knecht Ballin’!!! AR/LBJ/AD have loc(k)ed in Spots so, We need a Guard and a Wing and one of those players has to be Defensive Minded. My Suggestions: Start AR/Cam/Rui/LBJ/AD with Knecht being that 1st Sub for LBJ @ that 5/6min Mark. When Vando returns, AR/Knecht/Vando/LBJ/AD with Rui being that 1st Sub for LBJ.

[@BobbyLouxMusic]

I’d go as far back as Glenn Rice as the only legit shooter the lakers brought in who’s shot didn’t turn to poop! All the other “snipers” lakers signed all turned out to be crap once they became a laker!

[@stanjohnson7849]

Duh 🙄 …, Everyone knew Knecht was going to be like This 🤷🏽‍♂️. Everyone Except 16 other GM’s 😂😂😂😂👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@andremiller1566]

Giannis and Joker also went around 17. These GMs are flat out clueless unless it's a super obvious blue chipper. Even Jordan and Kobe got passed over.

[@RobTheWatcher]

Yeah, because players always pan out as projected. A great player in college will always be a great player in the NBA. Everyone knows that.

[@josephedrictiamson]

Special mention to the Pelicans

[@josephedrictiamson]

@@andremiller1566clarification about Jokic, he went 41st overall. Also MJ is expected to be a top 5 draft choice in his batch.

[@truckerstar24]

@@andremiller1566Jordan was 3 and he got hakkeem ahead of him. But kobe was 13 cause he declared to early for the draft. Kobe’s draft was stacked of talent.

[@phedcenter1392]

I guess Jokic is resting up as much as possible before the Lakers game in order to play his best for that game.

[@Skyfalcon5]

We finally got a top shooter. So this is how Warriors fans feel huh.

[@coreybanks2115]

Lakers 💜💛💪🏽

[@jondoe5116]

I bet Romo didn’t say nomo about Prime after this roasting 😂😂😂

[@azizmooshoolov2308]

Glen Rice. It only panned out for the first championship season, but he was specifically brought in to shoot.

[@ShaiBuckets2]

Westside Knecht Is The Truth !!!

[@duvalpaige9601]

Roadhouse!!!!!!!

[@cashoutkaynina7391]

9 of 12

[@Atmizi]

Thank god im watching YT this time and witness AK’s great meme work 😂

[@LockedOnLakers]

@@Atmizi Thanks! AK

[@t-rav3493]

I find it interesting, we have 3 guys already who are like the 3.5 best player on a team, Dalton scoring is good enough to slot him into the same space despite the bad defense (and honestly not bad all the time) is JJ coach of the year right now? Right now we’re bagging on the door to the #1 seed and this is the same roster that everyone said is a 10-11 seed, same roster from last season, and JJ just had a longer winning streak in his first 14 games than Ham did in 2 season with essentially the same roster

[@addwayb6]

Correction - most points as a rookie was Elgin Baylor, 55 points

[@gringoboy701]

This is what i foresee. Pelinka gets an actual 2 way guard this trade deadline. Lebron will be willing to play for peanuts his last year next year and they get a solid missing piece and lakers are legit title contenders next year.

[@PouonoHB]

Jazz were playing zone while Knecht was on his heater

[@andremiller1566]

Giannis and Joker also went around 17. These GMs are flat out clueless unless it's a super obvious blue chipper. Even Jordan and Kobe got passed over.

[@kaseemburr4825]

Jokic was a second rounder. And giannis went 15th

[@Tonylaces]

Joker was 56th pick or something like this

[@vimalmurthy3665]

Already the rookie version of Bogdan Bogdanovic...keep it up Dalton!!!!

[@lynnerose7891]

Giving up 74 POINTS IN A HALF IS NOT GOOD.

[@jean-louispiraux7327]

No Dalton mural yet in downtown LA?

[@terribleteacher]

Amazing!

[@Omezzy27]

37

[@TheRedDevil_NC]

Dalton Knechtamenetzky

[@johnnychatman4480]

Best looking rookie so far but the Big question for today is can we keep him??????????

[@doryenmctown4795]

Why not?

[@gringoboy701]

Bro he is under contract for 4 years lmao.

[@C15s]

Trading max christie, gabe Vincent, jaxson Hayes, Christian wood, and a first round pick for another solid big that can back up AD and maybe a wing to fill out the lineup is looking real nice rn. We’re maybe one trade away from being favorites for the championship. Us and Boston. Maybe Denver too

[@haunfrench7180]

Get to them out and get Oliveri in

[@michaelwalker112]

This is what a shooter looks like, when I said in preseason he should be starting, all I heard was AR’ lol AR is benefit from playing with LBJ and AD! DK been doing this. If you payed attention to college ball. He’s the truth! Gonna lay his own path! Where the fool who said I was crazy calling him bird 2.0! You guys gonna see. This dude is butter from outside. Got play making skills! We haven’t seen his best yet lol

[@magnusklar-dt2lc]

LA is going to have the no 1 offense in the NBA💪

[@rob3h]

I hope he improves his attack game as well, making him even more difficult to guard. Who do you think we should add to our starting lineup to make us a contender? Jerami Grant, Rui or Wendell Carter?

[@SeniorWunn1]

That shooter that was brought in to the Lakers and actually had success/statistical success was GLEN RICE!

[@rcmysm9123]

His comp is actually Drazen Petrovic.

[@bradaskew4900]

Who knew Jimmy Chitwood was waiting for the Lakers at #17...??

[@notorious_H.A.N]

Lebron finally got his klay Thompson 🥹

[@theelementslook]

I will never understand why people want LESS good players. 😂 lol! Can you guys please explain to people in the chat that DK panning out or having a heater doesn’t mean we need to trade all our other players? lol! The goal is to get a bunch of great guys… 🤷🏾‍♂️ Y’all think the Celtics want to trade Derrick White when Payton Pritchard goes off? Us Tennesseans knew this would happen. (And stop comping him to freaking Larry Bird because he’s white chat. We’re still doing that?) But the goal is to have a lot of awesome and situational guys. We want Rui AND DK y’all. (Oh… and he’s not “sneaky athletic” which is code for actual athletic white guy…. He’s always been an athlete..) Let’s enjoy the fact he’s going to be GREAT annnnd not use it to speculate how we’re going to get rid of everyone else. More than 3 people play in a game people… (p.s. Bron was overjoyed that a guy he was passing to was hitting shots. 😂)

[@juanwoodruff6202]

Well spoken. Exactly

[@elostatik]

Move Rui to the bench and now you got depth

[@dailyromznation615]

Just my observation, for the last 2 Knecht explosions, both happened when Lebron is not in the lineup. Wondering if Knecht should start or become the 6th man thoughts?

[@Ro6ns]

And some of them weren’t exactly open 😅

[@cdoug5747]

The reason they got alil sloppy is because them 2 or 3 year players came in and started going one on one like dk not about to outshine me 😅

[@allaninla]

You guys forgot to mention Vlade mania when Divac first arrived

[@Martillo81015]

Closest thing I’ve seen to Klay Thompson. Look out NBA.

[@leChandler24]

When u get 1 shooter and the lakers are almost unbeatable! Imagine if lakers management have given AD and LBJ 2 shooters in the last 2-3 years! Really shame!

[@craigosterberg5045]

Dalton reminds me of Klay when he gets hot

[@bonganimkhwanazi2081]

No serious championship team starts a rookie... Some of yall are from the Lonzo days & didnt wanna trade for AD. I can tell

[@theelementslook]

Bingo!

[@m.m.1508]

Rajon Rondo and Mario Chalmers We’re practically rookies during their championship runs with their respective teams .. & then there’s Magic Johnson of course 😂

[@jamiethorpe5431]

Ty

[@DawudBlackseedAllah]

Rondo started for the Celtics ....they won a championship

[@mrphillips9467]

Ummmm Magic Johnson…😂😂😂

[@jimmyjames24]

Sasha?

[@ajstarting5]

Beasley, Rice, Sessions

[@lucasanfilippo5370]

Hi guys.. we Better look for some team where to land Rui.. as soon as he comes back to the bench, he wiill start to play garbage.. I think Dalton in the Starting 5 is the clear Path for the team, due to his talent.. so we Better have on our bench, people Who are ok with that.. I dont know about Dlo, but Rui many times showed he plays bad when his minutes go down..

[@diegobromfield]

8:32 😂😂😂

[@fredsmith6305]

Glen Rice

[@bfns2353]

This upcoming 5 game stretch will let me know if this team is fr or not. Imo playing Orlando without their best player in our house should be an automatic W. Now even at home that Denver game will be tough, if the Lakers buckle down and play great ball they can win that game. Then its PHX without KD and Beal,that should be an automatic W. Then the Spurs, even with Wemby, should be an automatic W. And to end the 5 game stretch they play OKC without any big man so AD and Bron should feast in the paint and i have confidence in that being a W too. Imo Lakers should end the 5 game stretch 4-1 at least, ill only give them a possible loss against Denver. If they end this 5 game stretch with a 2-3 record or 1-4 I'd say the first 14 games have been a fluke and they aren't winning anymore in the Bron/AD era

[@TheIntellect-q4e]

It's too early in the season to make a fluke call about our first 14 games, we need to see where were at after 30 games, Proper trade adjustments can fix any issues that might occur

[@gregpollard7158]

“Westside Knecht” is a Baller!!! And, I don’t think His Performance was an Isolated/Rare Performance - He can be a 50/40/90 Shooter that Averages 15-20 this Year, 20+ Next Year and 25+ in 3-4 Years bcuz He can Score on All 3 Levels!!! Side Note - He is “Knecht 4” when He’s West of Crenshaw and “Westside Knecht” when He’s East of Crenshaw!!! 😂😂😂

[@AndreAndraos]

Add #Bluesky please

[@LockedOnLakers]

We’re on Bluesky. Kambrothers. AK

[@_WEsTWooD]

KNECHT SZN.

[@TonyMontanaMIYAYO]

LeBron still gonna be the in season MVP rookie and if you keep this up he gonna trade you for Zach LaVine 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@carravaggiomikelson870]

9/12

[@curtiswhite2872]

I hope you didn't just jinx them about losing.

[@buckbeezi6263]

lol Cam literally hasn’t had a bad game😂Tf is Andy tlkn abt? What does a bad game for Cam even look like? A missed shot or 2? Giving up easy buckets in one on one situations? I’m confused

[@stephenspann754]

Bonganimkhwanazi2081 you mentioned that no championship team starts a rookie Magig Johnson was a rookie and Lakers won the title you need to know what you are talking about before saying anything

[@Jonny0nline]

NEW MEMES! LFG!

[@NickHawaii]

Curry who? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@calvin232323]

go get KCP back and trade for a decent big and we cooking 🔥🔥🔥

[@bryangreene5795]

"Dolphin" Knecht cuz he's so wet!!!!

[@LockedOnLakers]

I laughed! AK

[@knowEgo]

NBA has turned into a 48 minute 3 point shooting contest- sad actually!!

[@headbussa5430]

Austin Reaves has not been shooting good especially not from 3

[@alexamerling79]

Steal of the draft!

[@Lakers243244]

Glen Rice