The real issue in Denver win at Philly
by sgiustra on Jan 19, 2012 12:50 PM MST
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As we enjoyed the tremendous win in Philly with Miller in the starring role, beating 2 straight teams who hadnt lost at home, moving to 10 - 5, gaining ground on OKC who lost to the Wizards, I was left with an uneasy feeling. Should have been a great night, no? No.
I'll cut right to the chase.
If Gallo is hurt, he should not be playing but, if he's not seriously impaired the following applies.
I am a huge fan of Gallo but that performance was correctly described by RBM as "spineless." I ranted there. I'll elaborate here.
What I saw was frankly what I saw for a short period of time after Knicks went south in early 2009 or 2010. Gallo seemed disinterested, maybe tired, possibly confused. Most of us thought he'd hit a wall of some kind.
But yesterdays "effort" bordered on catatonic. It was that bad. That performance made no sense.
Three shots. Three. Why did he bother to even take one?
Gallo did not play badly. Gallo did not play, period.
Ironically the player that I frankly dislike, that now plays Gallos old position in NY, put up a stinker and probably lost the game for the Knicks but at least he played, he tried. That's what "he do."
My question, what do Gallo do?
Maybe this is a one time thing. How could we know?
One thing for sure, Nugs cannot be in any rush to extend Gallo before 1/25 deadline. And any post season resigning has to be carefully calculated.
For now, any more "efforts" even resembling the one in Philly should result in Gallos losing his starting position and curtailed minutes, not for failing but for not trying.
If for no other reason, how could we justify playing a guy who shows that non effort when Harrington and Brewer have been nothing but balls of energy, at Gallos spot, usually playing productive if not heroic minutes for us?
Karl and Denver bigwigs need to have a serious sit down with Gallo. Just show him a tape of the 6er game. If Gallo doesnt get it, it might be time to cut the cord as soon as possible.
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I think this is a slight overraction
Gallo also played pretty good defense on Iggy and had something like three steals. He does so many other things that I’m not too concerned.
If this continues, there’s a problem. However, a clearly in foul trouble Gallo still scored 14 points the night before in Milwaukee.
If you wanna talk about disinterested, re-sign Chandler
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agree with the chandler comment
think gallo still might be nursing a bum ankle. in which case, he should sit out tomorrow’s game against the wiz to try to get ready for his triumphant return to MSG
excellent response
I remember Gallo having the best 2pt game I’ve ever see in his 1st game as a Nugget. I was at that game and was a HUGE Gallo skeptic (don’t call me a hater). He proved me wrong in 1 game by doing all the little things and locking down Pierce on D. I still don’t know if he can be the guy the Nuggets obviously want him to be, but he is already a very good 2nd or 3rd option. IMO he’s more of a glue guy like AAA and is quickly becoming a solid all-around player.
thoughtful response
almost too thoughtful
by sgiustra on Jan 19, 2012 2:47 PM MST up reply actions 1 recs
This article is like a Fox news article
makes bold uninformed statements and perceives them as fact such as Gallo seemingly being “disinterested” then goes on as such to use these “Facts” as assumptions presumed to be correct.
If Gallo says he has had a nagging injury then he has a nagging injury, I’ll go by his words before anyones blogger. I could say that based on last nights performance Andre Miller wants to play for Denver until he is 44 and wants to be a coach when his career is over and coach along with George Karl, but I won’t because it is untrue and he never said it.
Perhaps the nagging foot injury and being guarded on the opposite side by the best perimeter defender in the NBA in Iggy has something to do with it, but I will just assume that he hates being with the Nuggets and he sucks and he won’t ever score 10+ points with the Nuggets again.
Gosh people, give me a break.
"I do not threaten, I merely state facts"
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I wasn't trying to be sneaky about it at all.
"I do not threaten, I merely state facts"
Denverstiffs- home of the most bipolar fan base on the internet
"Sneaky" and "Fox News"
should never apply in the same sentence.
by Missing Lynx on Jan 19, 2012 11:01 PM MST up reply actions
I will take Jeff's slight and raise it to massive
my god he had a bad offensive game, calm down. I guess we can expect Andre to become a 25ppg scorer because of yesterday. Oh the kneejerks need to be toned down a little, we are 10-5, enjoy. We just beat two previously undefeated teams at home, why do there need to be issues in everything?(no team ever plays perfectly)
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I am really pretty happy that responses have been negative as per my take
I want to be wrong on this one.
God knows I’ve had some other stuff wrong: Al’s value, Fernandez too, expectation of Moz’s impending progress, the immediate impacts of Kyrie Irving and Rubio (could go on and on)
My concern isnt really that Gallo wont have value but rather that he has a propensity to evacuate self from any starring role. Even that wouldnt be horrible unless we re-up Gallo as if he was a star.
We cannot afford to shell out near max money on merely competent players.
I’m glad we got AAA and Nene back but you have to admit we overpayed for both. Could we afford to overpay another merely competent player? IDK.
Still much as I may have overreacted, it must seem strange to have a shooter on the floor who attempts 3 shots, who seemed to give up the ball as if it was on fire.
If I overreacted, someone on Denver should’ve explained how and why Gallo looked like he did. Then I and a bunch of other hyper-emotionals would not be so quick to react.
PS Gallo has moved up in ESPNs player rating to 6th place! whatever that means and he continues to place very high on B-reference categories that arent crude simplifications
PS#2: ESPN-NY blurbs that Melo’s “heroics” fall just short.
PS#3: I am about to get my work out at my PC while keeping an eye on taped replay of Philly game just to overexcite myself all over again.
PS#4: JBnuggs, dont call me a knee jerk! No need to insert “knee”
Not sure if this post is serious.
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I'm just surprised because you are usually
much more level headed and less reactionary than to flip out over two bad games…What gives?
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TWO GAMES!
Holy shit, I thought it was only one game! Oh no, now I’m really going to erupt.
Thanks a lot Cat.
I would would rather have Gallo go 1-3, than 5-22
Especially if he can contribute on the defensive end.
I assume his ankle is bothering him.
I bet he sits against the Wiz and goes for 30 against the Knicks.
Also, off topic
I listened to the first half of the game on the radio (actually the second quarter). You could barely tell there were any Nuggets on the floor aside from Dre, Nene and sometimes Ty. the announcers simply didn’t mention any of the other guys.
yes, I get your point all too well Pusherman
Thats one thing that I forgot to note. While Gallo may not be in the mood to contribute, at least he wont f!@K up the game for you.
Whew, now I’m better.
Its a weird argument
I could contend the Gallo that played against San Antonio is the real Gallo while today is a fluke.
Or you could go the other way and say the SA game was a fluke.
But Gallo has been more SA Gallo than Philly Gallo, so I will stick to the DS way of looking at the glass vs. the RMC way of wanting to shatter said glass with all that pent up rage.
Gotta love the haterz. Keep that hate a comin'
Jeremy and Charlie seem to be mad at retooling
Vs rebuilding and their analysis seems blinded by that bias. DS has a positive bias, but RMC is far from objective.
Gotta love the haterz. Keep that hate a comin'
by JR15 on Jan 19, 2012 7:01 PM MST via mobile up reply actions
Not worried about Gallo.
I don’t know how much the ankle injury is bugging him. But while he didn’t help the team offensively, he sure didn’t hurt it — he moved the ball — and he helped on defense a ton. I’ve made that point about 5 times now, how awesome his D was on Iggy.
And so’s Jeff and probably everyone else.
Gallo is a stud. He had a bad game against the Lakers in LA, missed a layup that would have tied the game and the next day against the same team he has 20 points and like five steals.
So. Deep breaths, Siggy. Gallo’s gonna be OK. I’m more worried about you.
Is your love worth the nausea it could bring?
very funny
and who told you that my professional orientation was Freudian? Why a’lll moida da bum.
OK so you guys corraled me a bit, fine
but I want these kinds of games to be few and far between or I’ll be writing a separate post to and for each and every one of y’all.
And for you Cloudburst, 2 posts!
I watched the 76ers game on replay and knew the outcome
so I tried to disinterestedly watch little things (hard – it was a great game). It seemed to me that Gallo and Iggy each had the defensive assignment of taking the other out of the game, and they both did a good job. Iggy didn’t SCORE until the 3rd period. AAA had something to do with that also, but Gallo certainly looked engaged on D.
We’ll see what happens against the Wheezehards.
Yep Slader, I replayed game too
and, yeah, Gallo definitely expended a lot of energy. Still dont know how a shooter could eke out 3 shots in 33 minutes and look to get rid of the ball each instant he touched it. That’s still a bit puzzling.
But, yeah, I agree, Gallo did not have a bad game, just decided, for whatever reason, to not shoot. Everything else, Gallo did pretty well
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