with that said i do think its a positive sign of encouragement

Carmelo Anthony was asked what makes him "excited" about the future of NYK. The question, of course, assumes a lot. Anthony cited the team's rookies in his answer. "Jerian (Grant) showed the last three weeks of the season what he's capable of, the type of player he can be. He has a lot of upside. Of course everybody's seen KP what he can do out there. He has some upside. So the young talent that we have on this team, the sky's the limit if they working like that."

crzymdups wrote:From ESPN—

Carmelo Anthony was asked what makes him "excited" about the future of NYK. The question, of course, assumes a lot. Anthony cited the team's rookies in his answer. "Jerian (Grant) showed the last three weeks of the season what he's capable of, the type of player he can be. He has a lot of upside. Of course everybody's seen KP what he can do out there. He has some upside. So the young talent that we have on this team, the sky's the limit if they working like that."

Great quote. Thanks for posting it. If Phil ends up with two starters and a rotation player from the last draft i think you have to consider it a huge success.

callmened wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

callmened wrote:i warned you guys, please beware of march and april stats where legends like tim frazier get near triple doubles

with that said i do think its a positive sign of encouragement

It's not like he was getting playing time before. I'm aware of April aberrations, but I don't think that's what this is.

im not sure what it is to be honest. i wish he wouldve played all season so that i could have a better reading

Chicken or the egg? One assumes he would have done this all year if given the minutes? He has looked awful at times this year.
Improvement comes sometimes from NOT playing.

If we had our pick I might have advocated that we give rookies minutes AND posture for a better pick at the same time. But not this year.

Caseloads wrote:Gallo is a has been. Please release him. We're not going anywhere with Gallo on the roster.

You don't expect role players to take you anywhere.

nixluva wrote:This is a good thing for Jerian going into the summer. We're gonna have a pretty good batch of young players in development this summer, with KP, Jerian, Gallo, Wroten, Willy, Early etc. getting together and hopefully supporting each other this summer.

I love that Grant is working on his floater which is something i've been saying all year that every point guard should have. A good floater can change his game for the better while he's working on getting better with his outside shot.

ChuckBuck wrote:Should've been Jerian Grant in October, November, December, January, February, March.

Let rooks be rooks if you're "rebuilding". No way Jose should've started as many games as he did.

I'm not here to shake my fists at the sky over what could've been. I'm just observing what is actually happening.

I tend to agree that Grant had to learn on the floor, in practice, and watching from the bench to get to this point.

His minutes were not great this season, but at least he's ending on a positive note.

newyorker4ever wrote:

nixluva wrote:

Caseloads wrote:Gallo is a has been. Please release him. We're not going anywhere with Gallo on the roster.

That's funny considering Gallo has the 2nd best Win Share 48 of all the guards on the team. Jose was at a WS/48 of .096, Gallo at .080 and Grant at .025. Not great but he's closer to being a solid NBA player than Grant had been all season. I think Gallo can get better and could become an average NBA guard off the bench. He's not far off of that right now. Grant has a higher upside and hopefully he'll surpass Gallo next year in terms of his season long production. If he does that would be a great development for the team.

Comparing Gallo's numbers to the other guards on our team is absolutely ridiculous and you know that Nix. I haven't seen much if anything that says Gallo will be a legit 2nd guard coming off the bench so i really don't care either way if we bring him back or not but if we do he needs to be a 3rd guard off the bench. He's lost all confidence in his shot and we know who can shoot when he has his confidence because we've seen it.

Gallo got better from the previous season! A WS/48 of .080 is closer to the NBA average WS/48 of .100. If he continues to improve he can easily become a solid player for this team. Dude was an undrafted player and he did in fact getting better from his rookie season.

For comparison with other free agent SG's! Just look at their WS/48's.

Rk Player            Pos Age Tm   G   MP    PER   TS%   3PAr  FTr   TRB% AST%  STL% BLK% TOV% USG%  WS   WS/48 ▾ OBPM  DBPM  BPM  VORP
01 DeMar DeRozan     SG  26  TOR  73  2640  21.5  .551	.102  .483  7.0  20.4  1.5  0.7  9.5  29.7  9.3  .169	 2.6   -1.2  1.4  2.3
02 Tyler Johnson     SG  23  MIA  36   863  13.8  .581  .289  .264  7.2  14.1  1.4  1.3  14.8 16.8  2.1  .114    0.4    0.1  0.5  0.5
03 Troy Daniels      SG  24  CHO  39   386  14.7  .613  .626  .058  6.8  7.2   1.0  0.6  10.2 20.7  0.8  .105	 1.1   -2.8 -1.7  0.0
04 Nicolas Batum     SG  27  CHO  65  2317  15.8  .549  .460  .226  9.7  26.5  1.3  1.5  17.7 21.3  4.9  .101    1.2    1.1  2.3  2.5	
05 Leandro Barbosa   SG  33  GSW  62   980  12.1  .545  .297  .182  5.6  11.4  2.1  0.7  11.3 18.2  0.9	 .099	-1.0   -0.9 -1.9  0.0	
06 Allen Crabbe      SG  23  POR  74  1925  12.2  .568  .416  .158  5.6  7.2   1.5  0.6  8.1  16.6  3.9  .098    0.3   -1.1 -0.8  0.6
07 Brandon Rush      SG  30  GSW  65   990  10.3  .556	.593  .114  9.1  7.3   1.0  1.5  10.1 12.5  1.9  .093	-1.1   -0.1 -1.2  0.2
08 Evan Turner       SG  27  BOS  74  2051  13.6  .507  .114  .237  9.4  24.0  1.7  0.9  16.7 18.5  3.7  .086	-2.0    1.3 -0.7  0.7
09 Courtney Lee	     SG	 30  TOT  71  2088  12.0  .566	.341  .195  4.9  8.9   1.8  1.0	 9.8  14.9  2.2	 .086	-0.2   -0.3 -0.5  0.8
Rk Player            Pos Age Tm   G   MP    PER   TS%   3PAr  FTr   TRB% AST%  STL% BLK% TOV% USG%  WS   WS/48 ▾ OBPM  DBPM  BPM  VORP
10 Ian Clark         SG  24  GSW  61   556  12.0  .549	.415  .170  6.5  15.6  1.4  1.6  16.3 19.9  0.9  .080	-1.5   -1.3 -2.9 -0.1
11 Bradley Beal      SG  22  WAS  50  1554  15.6  .547  .336  .219  6.2  15.5  1.5  0.5  11.1 25.4  2.5  .076    1.0   -1.7 -0.8  0.5
12 Jerryd Bayless    SG  27  MIL  52  1505  12.5  .568	.529  .206  5.3  16.2  1.6  0.6  13.3 16.5  2.4  .076	 1.1   -2.1 -1.0  0.4
13 E'Twaun Moore     SG  26  CHI  56  1182  11.5  .553  .263  .096  5.5  11.9  1.4  1.0  11.8 15.9  1.8  .074	-1.1   -0.6 -1.7  0.1
14 Eric Gordon       SG  27  NOP  45  1481  13.6  .565  .533  .226  3.7  12.8  1.4  0.8  10.7 20.3  2.2  .072    1.7   -2.0 -0.3  0.6
15 Gerald Henderson  SG  28  POR  66  1290  13.0  .527  .268  .272  8.3  7.8   1.3  1.2	 10.0 20.0  1.9  .071	-2.0   -1.3 -3.3 -0.4