Gallinari is what he is.

martin wrote:

iSergio wrote:Danilo Gallinari might be 6'10" but he doesn't have PF skills or strength. He's a SF. You'll make him worse if you ask him to play like Karl Malone and play inside or with his back to the basket. You wouldn't ask Paul Millsap to play on the perimeter would you?

Gallinari is what he is.

I agree with this. But Gallo does need to rebound more.

True. But hard to rebound when you're shooting from the outside a lot. Kinda like Bargnani. Is this the new mold for Italian big men? Not rebounding. Great outside shooting?

VDesai wrote:

martin wrote:

iSergio wrote:Danilo Gallinari might be 6'10" but he doesn't have PF skills or strength. He's a SF. You'll make him worse if you ask him to play like Karl Malone and play inside or with his back to the basket. You wouldn't ask Paul Millsap to play on the perimeter would you?

Gallinari is what he is.

I agree with this. But Gallo does need to rebound more.

That he should do. Its not his skill set to guard bigs

all I know is he consistently guards the SF on the other team.

His only superior asset is supposed to be the 3 ball. And he is not even that good at it anymore. Only other thign is getting to the line. Melo does that better.
The 3-pt shooting is not worth to break a trade for Melo. Just get it done already.

iSergio wrote:Danilo Gallinari might be 6'10" but he doesn't have PF skills or strength. He's a SF. You'll make him worse if you ask him to play like Karl Malone and play inside or with his back to the basket. You wouldn't ask Paul Millsap to play on the perimeter would you?

Gallinari is what he is.

as mike breen pointed out in game, we forget that gallo is a big dude.

we would not be surprised if ar guarded a pf (though we would be surprised to see ar finally get minutes.) gallo is much bigger than ar.

no reason why not to play gallo pf. how many bruising pf's are in this league? pls not if they want to get T'd up. we had amar'e guarding nene and that was a size miss match in favor of nene. hell even darko was a size miss match for amar'e. but both times it was ok cause amar'e size.

iSergio wrote:5 rpg is actually a lot for the role and distance from the hoop that Danilo Gallinari plays here.

True

Paladin55 wrote:

martin wrote:

iSergio wrote:Danilo Gallinari might be 6'10" but he doesn't have PF skills or strength. He's a SF. You'll make him worse if you ask him to play like Karl Malone and play inside or with his back to the basket. You wouldn't ask Paul Millsap to play on the perimeter would you?

Gallinari is what he is.

I agree with this. But Gallo does need to rebound more.

I think Gallo can defend at the 4, but he has no offensive game in the post. How many really good back to the basket players are there in the league, anyway.

I thought they should have tried him on KG.

He's quick enough to stay in front of PFs and draw a charge now and then, and has some shot blocking ability and length, although he can be moved around and backed in by certain folks
I actually don't think rebounding is an issue with him. When he is around the basket he does a pretty decent job of rebounding, and he knows how to box out for the most part- His problem is that he is far from the basket most of the time, both on the offensive and defensive end.

TMS wrote:i'm pretty satisfied w/the way Gallo has played this year... he's being a lot more aggressive driving to the hole instead of settling for 3's all the time, & he's tried to pick up his intensity on defense... i don't think he's ever going to be a great rebounder, his game is still pretty much perimeter based... the only thing i want to see out of Gallo is more consistency.

you mean you want him to play TWO halves of the same game??? that's just insane.

Bippity10 wrote:

TMS wrote:i'm pretty satisfied w/the way Gallo has played this year... he's being a lot more aggressive driving to the hole instead of settling for 3's all the time, & he's tried to pick up his intensity on defense... i don't think he's ever going to be a great rebounder, his game is still pretty much perimeter based... the only thing i want to see out of Gallo is more consistency.

Good post, and I agree. I see Gallo as a SF at least for a few years before he can develop some strength, and possibly for his entire career. I see 7.0 rebounds as his rebounding upside if we are lucky. I don't ahve too many complaints about him this year. He plays hard, does not make a lot of mistakes, fits perfectly in this offense and has been solid for a 22 year old. My biggest complaint about him is that although I do think he plays hard every night, I think he has a clear aggression problem(read killer instinct) He obviously has a 2nd gear that he saves for guys like Carmelo and Pierce and when someone is talking smack to him. On other nights his aggression level is considerably lower and he settles for jumpers. The hope is that this is a confidence issue(which is natural for a player at 22) and not simply a personality issue(which is difficult to near impossible to fix).

yeah he seems to get himself psyched up for the primetime matchups but can't get up for the lesser ones... i dunno why that is... if he could just figure out a way to stay aggressive in every game & be consistent, he'd be a star... but then, that is what usually separates the star players from the wannabe's... it's not easy to develop that kind of killer instinct & consistency... not sure if Gallo ever will... we've seen it in flashes but the same can be said for a lot of other players.