With the way things have unfolded over the course of the last year, it's looking unlikely that Dalton Knecht will ultimately get the kind of larger role on this Los Angeles Lakers team he likely wants.
The reason for that is multi-faceted. It's about how Knecht's rookie year played out, but it also goes deeper than that. The Lakers are a team on a different timeline and headed in a different trajectory than they were at this time a year ago.
We know that Knecht's rookie season was a bit of a strange one. Toward the start of the year, he was looking like the favorite to take home the Rookie of the Year award with his spectacular play.