Almost 11 months ago to the date, Dalton Knecht was in his worst slump of the season. The jump from the Big Sky Conference to the SEC had been going great, the points were pouring in, a faucet that couldn’t be stopped.
And then — trouble.
He went 2-for-7 against Georgia State, 1-for-7 against NC State and 2-for-7 again, this time against Tarleton State. Before he was the SEC’s Player of the Year, before he was the Lakers’ pick at No. 17 and before he was looking like the shooting answer the Lakers have never quite been able to put around LeBron James and Anthony Davis, Knecht was just a fifth-year senior in one hell of a slump.