If Dalton Knecht was making his case for rotation minutes in moments and flashes this preseason, then Thursday was as loud a statement as he could make. Knecht had as memorable an outing as one can have in a preseason game, scoring 30 points in the second half and 20 straight points between the fourth quarter and overtime to lead the Lakers to a comeback win over the Suns in Phoenix.
It was an incredible performance. [TNT analyst] Reggie [Miller] and I were talking about it before the game and he was like, 'It was high praise to say he's in the 1% of shooters' and I'm like 'Nah, he's in the 1% of shooters.' The thing about him is just the mentality. It's been very obvious in pick-up before the season, in training camp, thus far in games. He's got no fear.
I did a project in my statistics class on the Hot Hand Theory and for a long time, the Hot Hand Theory was debunked and then it got redebunked. It's a very real thing. Every player's that been in the zone like that, in the flow state, knows 'Just give me the basketball.' It's not even that you make every shot, it just feels supernatural when you're in that state.
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