Gallo sealed off our win over DEN with the beautiful foul that he drew. He did the exact same thing successfully last year, too.
He is ok at blocks/stls.
He draws fouls real well all-around. On offense and defense. Which shows he his game and has a quality bball IQ. Which, when we look at him as a flawed player needing to be able to mature his game, bodes well.
He can get to the line tremendously well and his driving game is elite. So if you're talking about his offense, that must be included, as well as his elite ft%'s.
His stats are very similar to what they were last year. But he had an absolutely wretched start to the season, and has heated up since over a pretty good margin of games now, and his numbers have risen.
I will bet that by the end of the season his numbers are better. (Despite while being on a team with additional dominant scorers and shooters (Amare and Felton), and an emerged trust and health in Chandler as a scorer.)
Last year Gallo was a 1dimensional, 1trick pony player who just had a good shot.
Now he is the worst shooter on the team. Yet his numbers are consistent despite his start, and his impact on games has never been greater.
Something isn't consistent. He's a very young player and talent; yet we called him out hard and early and were pessimistic bc he was just a 1trick pony type who couldn't evolve into more, so why waste our time acting like he has all-star skills and skill-set. When he just is a good shooter and who can catch n shoot.
Yet, ironically by his terrible start and just-decent shooting so far this year, he has proven unequivocally that that pidgeon holing of him absolutely incorrect. And that by either miscalculation, incomplete assessment of his game, and/or some player hate, he hasn't been accurately looked upon.
The same people by and large, are making the same arguments, with the same level of conviction this year against him.
It's like Gallo won't be fully trusted and accepted until he gets an all-star selection before the age of 24, averages 20+ ppg and has better peripheral stats to Chandler in every category, all while taking just the right number of 3's in every game that seem to us that he should be taking.
(Much like Mike D'ant won't get full cred for his game system and philosophy until we beat LA with a healthy Bynum starting and hold them to <100pt)
He is ok at blocks/stls.
He draws fouls real well all-around. On offense and defense. Which shows he his game and has a quality bball IQ. Which, when we look at him as a flawed player needing to be able to mature his game, bodes well.
He can get to the line tremendously well and his driving game is elite. So if you're talking about his offense, that must be included, as well as his elite ft%'s.
His stats are very similar to what they were last year. But he had an absolutely wretched start to the season, and has heated up since over a pretty good margin of games now, and his numbers have risen.
I will bet that by the end of the season his numbers are better. (Despite while being on a team with additional dominant scorers and shooters (Amare and Felton), and an emerged trust and health in Chandler as a scorer.)
Last year Gallo was a 1dimensional, 1trick pony player who just had a good shot.
Now he is the worst shooter on the team. Yet his numbers are consistent despite his start, and his impact on games has never been greater.
Something isn't consistent. He's a very young player and talent; yet we called him out hard and early and were pessimistic bc he was just a 1trick pony type who couldn't evolve into more, so why waste our time acting like he has all-star skills and skill-set. When he just is a good shooter and who can catch n shoot.
Yet, ironically by his terrible start and just-decent shooting so far this year, he has proven unequivocally that that pidgeon holing of him absolutely incorrect. And that by either miscalculation, incomplete assessment of his game, and/or some player hate, he hasn't been accurately looked upon.
The same people by and large, are making the same arguments, with the same level of conviction this year against him.
It's like Gallo won't be fully trusted and accepted until he gets an all-star selection before the age of 24, averages 20+ ppg and has better peripheral stats to Chandler in every category, all while taking just the right number of 3's in every game that seem to us that he should be taking.
(Much like Mike D'ant won't get full cred for his game system and philosophy until we beat LA with a healthy Bynum starting and hold them to <100pt)