Gallo: Hopefully I’ll be perfect in the next three months

by Tommy Dee on April 30th, 2009 at 8:25 pm

Nice pull by Marc Berman:

“…The good news is he can sleep through the night. Now can he play 82 games next season? “I feel better,” Gallinari said. “For example, I’m sleeping without pain. I didn’t sleep for a lot of months. So it’s a big improvement. Pain is not the same. I’m feeling a lot better. Hopefully I’ll be perfect in the next three months and be ready for training camp.”

Gallinari began rehab yesterday – stretching and massages. He doesn’t know when he’ll be able to run and will see how he feels in July before making a commitment for summer league. Odds are, he doesn’t play.

Gallinari still talked about “discomfort” in his leg, but claims it’s normal. “It’s not pain,” said Gallinari, who competed in 27 games. “It’s discomfort. It’s the normal discomfort because I was working on it for eighth months. It’s not going to go away in one week.

The Knicks hold the eighth seed in next month’s lottery and pray to move up to 1 or 2 in order to select Spanish PG Ricky Rubio, whose name was on the early entry list announced today…”

‘Here is the list.
  • bob knick slave

    THIS KID IS GONNA BE GREAT!IN 2 YEARS THEYRE GONNA BE CALLING HIM”GODINARI”…..I CANT WAIT…TO ALL OF YOU WHO SAID HE WAS A DRAFT BUST,YOU WILL SEE HE WAS A STEAL

  • Jeff Cykiert

    discomfort makes me feel uncomfortable.

  • Mucha

    Hopefully.

  • italian stallion

    I don’t like this “leg discomfort” thing. I also don’t like the fact that Duhon had the same surgery and was more or less fine playing fewer minutes as a bench player, but started to break down as a starter getting a lot of minutes.

  • JASONHAYES

    Yea I agree with you all. Im a bit concerned by the “It’s the normal discomfort because I was working on it for eighth months”. I hope he’s able to hit the weight room this summer and gain weight without injuring himself again! Hopefully he can get up 20 or 25 pounds!

  • Arputter

    Nothing sounds good from Gallinari…20 year olds are not supposed to be constantly hurt like this…

  • Jeff Cykiert

    Well, its not like he got hurt again just now… he had surgery we knew he would need rehab.

    I was looking at his stats: 44% from 3 pt (with over 1 make per game, so a pretty decent sample size) and like 95% from the line. Plus he has good court vision and playmaking abilities.

    That description in a 6-11 body is obsurdly awesome. I know this is out of no where but im just tryin to look at bright spots.

  • Bart

    Does anyone think that at the end of the day Bustinari will be better than AR-15 Anthony Randolph. Randolph would have been a beast in this system and we could have taken him at six hes 6′ 11” tough, plays defense has passing skills and can shoot. Hes not as good a shooter as Bustinari but he makes up for it in ways Bustinari can’t.

  • CircleLimit4

    Hindsight is always 20/20, Bart. 7 other teams passed up on Anthony Randolph after us, including the Bucks who chose Joe “Schmo” Alexander. A-Rand always had a high ceiling but no one thought he would adapt to the NBA game so fluidly. Scouting reports said he was a tweener, saying he didn’t have range to be a shooting PF and didn’t have the muscle for a post up or face-the-basket PF. He obviously has bulked up and worked on his shot but the Knicks weren’t the only team to deem him as a project and overlooked him.

    As for Galinari, he’s a “wait and see.” His ceiling is still a mile high, maybe higher than Randolph’s. Shooting isn’t all the Rooster has. He can slash to the hoop and has a good first step. Regardless, the sample size is too small at this point to bother speculating. I think “Bustinari” is a premature put-down and there’s a good chance you’ll be changing your tune next season, if he’s healthy.

  • Mucha

    The only Knick that I really like has a bad back… and he was picked one slot ahead of a future franchise player. Oh God.

  • Jeff Cykiert

    Eric gordon is an undersized, volume scorer who could eventually drop over 25 a game if you allowed him to control the ball on every possession. His outside shot is suspect, his defense is suspect, his court vision, playmaking, and unselfishness are suspect. It’s like an AI in the making or a weaker nate. I don’t know why you would be upset that we didn’t take him… It’s not the kind of player we are looking for. We need smart team players who can randomly put up 7 assists one night and not surprise us in doing so… Our guards have to be playmakers and know how to find the easiest shot for the right person at the right time.

    We need shooters, and people with defensive awareness.

    Barring the back injury, Galo was a FAR SUPERIOR pick for us then EG… EG is no where near becoming a ‘franchise player,’ he just puts up numbers on the clippers because they don’t care about anything.

    Remember that core of Marbury Crawford Randolph and Curry that we are trying to purge from our system? EG would fit right in.

    I’m going to start lobbying for Grant Hill on the MLE for 3 years (the final three of his career). He provides great leadership, great defense, and great play making, the three things we Lack and the three things that form a successful D’antoni system.

  • Mucha

    No, no, no, no. Suspect?

    His outside shot is not suspect, it is GREAT. He’s a GREAT shooter, no disrespect but I really don’t know what you’re talking about. His defense is underrated and he actually has a strong body and a great wingspan that’ll allow him to be a pretty good defender. His not selfish, he just knows how to score. He’d have been such a great fit in D’Antoni’s system. Have you ever seen him play???

    A weaker Nate, are you SERIOUS? He’s a better version of Ben Gordon! Better! I mean that is obvious! He’s a future franchise player, period.