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Utah Jazz Coach had a heated one-liner about his players not guarding Dalton Knecht
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Utah Jazz Coach had a heated one-liner about his players not guarding Dalton Knecht

Dalton Knecht set the Utah Jazz on fire on Tuesday evening in Los Angeles. The Lakers rookie scored a career-high 37 points and made nine 3-pointers. The highlight of the highlights came in the third quarter when he scored 21 points, including a stretch where he made five 3-pointers in three minutes.

Jazz coach Will Hardy spoke to the media after the game and was brutally honest about the job his team did defending Knecht during that monstrous period. Needless to say, he wasn’t impressed with their situational recognition.

β€œIt seemed like everyone in the gym knew Dalton Knecht was going to shoot the next shot, except for a few people,” Hardy said. β€œThe problem was those few people were on our team.”

Between this and the fact that LeBron James bluntly explained that Knecht was there in plain sight for all the teams that passed on him in the draft, the rest of the league will be prepared for him to be able to shoot from here on out. The question is: will it matter?