C'mon Red, are you suggesting that Gallo's presence is responsible for Felton's recent shooting at a 29% clip?
In the Thunder game, Landry Fields hit a 3 point shot with 5:09 left. No one other than Felton or Amar'e took a shot after that, and the two of them were 2 or 3 for 11 in that span of time. i am not sure that any one other than Felton or Amar'e even touched the ball in the offensive half court in the last three or four minutes. Felton alone lost that game because he tried to be the hero and, at the end, neglected even Amar'e.
i can accept an argument that Gallo should not start or that his minutes should be limited, but you seem to think he belongs in street clothes next to Eddie Curry. He is valuable, perhaps not as valuable as some of us think, but he is certainly valuable.
Gallo is somewhat athletically challenged, but he is an effficient scorer because he gets his points without being a volume shooter and he does spread the floor. Although his recent driving to the hoop is at times impressive, some of his "finishes" verge on the comical. But Gallo does not interfere with anyone else's play. Indeed, D'Antoni's system seems to plant him in the corner, waiting like a statue for a kick-out which rarely comes. He neither demands the ball nor does he get it frequently.
No I'm not sugessting Gallo was directly responsible for Felton or anyones numbers, I was joking.
I do feel we as a team play better with him off the floor for many reasons, and he's better served coming off the bench. We agree.
Without him we focus more on d, move the ball bettr, have more efficient possessions and just play better together. It almost feels like everyone knows he's favoured, limited but really can't do anything but try and play with him.
I even stopped short of compiling actual game film and situations that illustrate my point but I chose not to.
I was tempted to post video from recent games, where we were behind and just ran up the court and let him chuck, multiple times. No ball movement, no hesitation, no cerebral ball, just run up and shoot. Bad shots, worse shot selection, poor fundamentals.
I look for logic, and the buck stops w MDA and Gallo who else is responsible for such boneheaded mistakes? And it happens time after time, game after game. So obvious that to me if I have to break out the game film and show this...
Then to me you don't know basketball. When you see Gallo play whether you're a fan or not, yu can LIKE him, but if you can't conclude this dude has no real basketball skill in terms of body movement, balance, how to use his body and take fundamental shots, then you aren't worthy of a real bb discussion.
If you know ball, you know what I mean.