tj23 wrote:Until he shows something more that's all he is. He isn't a 20+ ppg player. He shoots in the low 40's in fg percentage. When defenders play tight on him,(which they did after a month or so at the start of last season)he struggles. He drives to the basket into 2 defenders and throws up a wild shot instead of kicking out to the open man. He also gets baited into bad shots off the dribble. Not to mention he's an inconsistent defender who isn't big enough to guard the 4 but not always quick enough to guard 2's and 3's. Don't get me wrong he's a nice player with room to grow but damn everyone acts like he's going to be an all star or that he already is lol. He plays absolutely nothing like Dirk so don't even bring that comparison up. What other player can you compare to? Peja in his prime maybe? Chandler averaged more ppg(yes, barely) and shot a higher fg% last year but some fans talk about him like he's a scrub.

Did you see the game yesterday, did you see the style of play the Armani Jean play, these guys shot three's like a shooting drill, almost everyone on the team can knock down a open 3. When your 16, 17, 18 yrs old, a lot of what you learn stays with you forever.

If he's a dead on shooter, so be it. As much as we wanted Allan Houston to be more like spree, we learn to live with him settling for jump shots (even though he shot like 90% from the charity stripe) because he had one of the sweetest strokes in the history of the game.

He as been working on his post up game, and driving a little more frequent,but if his strength is from down town, then let him master that, let him be one of the best perimeter players in the game.
You would never ask reggie miller to take it to the hole more, cause he was so deadly from outside.

Guys like, melo, kobe, spree have the abilty to play the way they do cause they been playing that way from day one. I have learned that, if you start out your career takinging it to the hole, later on you will develope a jumper (jordan, LBJ, Spree, Kobe) but if you start out being a jump shooter, then thats who you are. There will be times that they will get agressive and post up, drive, pump fake, but they will always go back to what they are most successful at.

Just don't expect he'll change from being a premiere long range shooter, cuz that's his game, much like Reggie Miller or Rashard Lewis or Peja. The kid also had 1 blk, 3 stls, & 7 rebs. I like what he did overall. Being our 2nd leading scorer isn't a small thing no matter how he got his points. I'll take that stat line for a season.

fishmike wrote:how old is he? How many NBA games has he played?

DurzoBlint wrote:perfect, judge him based on their 1st preseason game.

tj23 wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:A pre-injury Peja was an All-Star and the go-to shooter on a really good WCF team. If that's Gallo's floor, I can live with it.

But not a carmelo type player. For example BRIGGS thinks he will be just as good if not better which is asking A LOT

Its not a contest--I would not trade Gallo for Melo. I dont care if Gallo is 20% better or 20% worse--he has the ability to score 22-24 points EVERY single night grab 5 rebounds and 3-4 assits. he simply does--he did it in the last 25 games last year--hes going to do it again consistently--yes he needs to diversify away from the 3 pt stripe but he knows this and he will.

I challenge anyone here to tell me Melo is better than Gallo Cahndler picks and cap space--I want to hear the stupid argument becasue thats what it is.

OjilEye wrote:He does have a tendency to linger around the 3-pt line which can make the offense go stagnant on his side, but let's give him some more pre-season games to show us if he's improved in that aspect.