CrushAlot wrote:Has Gallinari really had microfracture surgery? I knew the back injury was an issue prior to the draft but I did not know about microfracture surgery. If that is the case how do you draft Gallo and then not get Blair with the second 1st round pick in this past draft?

It said in his leg.. not knee.. I am not sure I ever heard of having microfracture in your leg...

I have pretty high expectations for Gallinari, and would be more critical of his game if the Gallinari we see now was the finished product, but I am not ignorant enough to think that his game will not evolve.

I don't understand anyone who is strongly dissatisfied with how he has performed this year. He has shown a pretty well-rounded game, especially on the defensive end, which makes me think that he will someday be an All-Star caliber player in the NBA.

With any young player you have to look at the good and bad aspects of their game, but give more weight to the positives when judging him during the early part of his career. As he gets older you look tend to look more closely at the negative aspects of his game and whether he has done anything to change. Lee is a good example of a guy who added to the positive list by erasing some of his early weaknesses as a player.

If a 26 yr. old Gallo plays the same way he is playing now, I would be critical of him for not making the necessary improvements and adjustments to his game, but I will not direct the same criticisms toward a 21 year old underdeveloped kid who had back surgery last year and had no real chance to get himself in shape.

This year has simply been a first step for him, and hopefully, he will be even better next year. You can make criticisms of his game- and many things said on this post are dead on-both the good and the bad, but you are wrong if you think that the game you see now is his game of 2013.

tkf wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

Nalod wrote:want the no.1 3 pt shooter in the league to start posting up? Don't you think if he starts playing in the paint they won't have sg's guard him? Don't you think its better he just shoot OVER them? ANd does it well?

There are not too many 6-10 guys can do what he does.

If he goes in the paint he is not big enough to take the pounding yet.

Why play to your weakness? Play to your strength!

Quentin Richardson lead the league in 3's under D'Antoni too. I'm not impressed.

Playing in the high post doesn't mean he will be banging with anyone either.

Well Q rich did so shooting 35%..

Gallo is doing so shooting 40%.. that is 5% points higher... Impressive..

So it's more of the system creating more shots for a long range specialist, meaning gallup will benefit from danphony's system
just like bad back Q Richardson did !

Matter of fact even stinky players career backups like duhon will generate great stats until he breaks down in this system.

Let me ask you this, has Shawn Marion made the same # of 3's away from the system NO ! Has Diaw and Barbosa put up similar numbers since playing rec league shoot'em up basketball under danphoney...NO

The system inflates # 's Period !

nixluva wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:Has Gallinari really had microfracture surgery? I knew the back injury was an issue prior to the draft but I did not know about microfracture surgery. If that is the case how do you draft Gallo and then not get Blair with the second 1st round pick in this past draft?

1. Gallo didn't have a back issue before the draft.
2. He didn't have microfracture surgery. He probably had a hairline fracture in his leg.
3. We already had Hill, why go after Blair?

Nalod wrote:want the no.1 3 pt shooter in the league to start posting up?

He's made the most 3s and he's taken the most 3s. He is not the "best 3 point shooter" by a long shot. As of this posting he is 22nd in the league behind the immortal outside shooter Jason Kidd!

http://www.nba.com/statistics/player/3PointS.jsp?league=00&season=22009&conf=OVERALL&position=0&splitType=9&splitScope=GAME&qualified=Y&yearsExp=-1&splitDD=

oohah

tkf wrote:

joec32033 wrote:

tkf wrote:

Andrew wrote:

But also I've see when pitted against an athletic SF like Caron Butler he can get shut down very easily.

Don't like 99% of NBA teams have athletic SFs? Why is he averaging 15 if its that easy to stop him.

exactly..but this is playa calling himself being "reasonable"... LOL.. And for the record he keeps using caron butler as a measuring stick and that wizards game as some sort of proof.. for the msot part, Mike miller was guarding gallo and caron was on him for that one play, the play in which he tried to knock the ball out of gallo's hand.. what playa in all of his lopsidedness doesn't mention is that gallo drove by butler, found lee , and lee got fouled...

Isn't Caron Butler perennially regarded as a tough, top of the line, versatile defender and generally one of the toughest most physical defenders out there?

sure, I am one of Butlers biggest fans... but what does that have to do with the issue at hand.. playa made it look like gallo could not do anything when guarded by butler and the truth is, butler guarded him like one time that game and when he did, gallo got by him.. so playa is really misrepresenting what really happened...

Soooooo delfino was his problem last night?

playa2 wrote:

tkf wrote:sure, I am one of Butlers biggest fans... but what does that have to do with the issue at hand.. playa made it look like gallo could not do anything when guarded by butler and the truth is, butler guarded him like one time that game and when he did, gallo got by him.. so playa is really misrepresenting what really happened...

Soooooo delfino was his problem last night?

Gallo is not a SF. So I expect him to get abused by them when he plays that far from the basket. Teams have figured him out. Get up in his chest and make him put the ball on the floor. If you do that he is effectively neutralized.

Another major issue is his foot speed is slow compared to other SF's. David Lee appears to be quicker on his feet than Gallo and seems to have better handle. The reason Lee looks quicker though is because he goes up against C's and PF's. Gallo needs to play closer to the rim where he wont have to take many dribbles to get to the rim.

D'Antoni is ruining Gallo. Walsh should have given Gallo a video of Dirk Nowitski.