iSergio wrote:I'm very high on Toney Douglas. I actually think he's our best young player. Yes, better and more potential then both Danilo Gallinari and Wilson Chandler. I just love Douglas' defense and shooting. He's also fearless.
Not sure that he has more potential than those two, but his fearlessness/aggressiveness sets him apart from them at this point.
If you look at Gallo, Wilson, and TD, you see two guys- Douglas and Chandler, already at their physical peaks, IMO. TD just turned 24, by the way, and he is already a mature physical specimen. Wilson turns 23 in a couple of months, but he has been a mature athlete for a good time, now. Gallo is still growing and filling out at 21+. (I put Hill, by the way, a step above Gallo in physical maturation, but not at the levels of Chandler or Douglas.)
I think Gallinari has a lot of space (more than Douglas or Chandler)to grow both physically, and as a player, and he has also shown a lot of all around abilities that nobody thought he had, which leads me to think that he has only scratched the surface of his potential.
Chandler has the physical tools, and has had stretches where he has made me think that he is really coming to understand how to maximize his abilities on the court (much better shot selection and attention being given to his midrange game).
If we look at TD as a SG, he is already a near complete player. If we expect him to be a PG, he has a lot of work ahead of him. Whether he becomes better than Jennings depends on whether he can become a PG who comes to understand the "big picture" as a distributor (Bring out the old cliche' Can he make the players around him better?), and makes the right decisions as a shooter/scorer. I would love to see some more glimpses of him being a real PG before the season ends.
I think we lucked out with TD- I just hope that he can take that next step and become a guy who is able to orchestrate an offense and get about 8 APG with a minimum of turnovers.
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