I feel like this is going to be a Jason Terry / Michael Finley type signing. Hope and excited quickly squashed out by the realization that you are signing an old man whose wheels have fallen off.
He's not that old - 34 in August.
With a lot of injuries and lost quickness at 6-10.
He never was quick so not sure what he lost. He’s very stiff and not switchable on defense. Can see him more as small ball stretch 5 but more to give Al and Rob rest during regular season. Just don’t see his fit for us defensively. Ime must be rolling his eyes right now. But the guy can score. Great shooter, especially against Celtics!!
The guy that is good defensively and adds punch offensively doesn't exist for what we have to offer
This sorta reminds me of Bryan Colangelo in Toronto.
TOR's biggest need was 3pt shooting so they went out and signed Jason Kapono (one of the league's best 3pt shooters) only Kapono was a terrible defender & rebounder who contributed nothing outside of shooting 3s so he made the team worse despite improving the team's weakness.
Next summer TOR's biggest need was rebounding (in part due to Kapono's inability to rebound) so Colangelo went out and signed Reggie Evans. One of the league's finest rebounders. Only Reggie Evans was a terrible defensive player and god-awful offensive player who made the team worse despite fixing that rebounding problem.
Guys who fix one problem while creating new bigger problems for the team.
Focus on a singular issue (3pt shooting or rebounding, in our case bench scoring & shooting) while paying too little attention to the overall quality of the player and whether he makes the team better or not.
Marginal additions who cause new problems but we focus only on what good things they offer while ignoring the bad.
There's a really, really big difference in a guy like Gallinari vs. a guy like Kapono. Kapono was the 4th highest paid player on his team. Gallinari is currently slated to be the 8th-highest paid player, and his role will probably slot him somewhere between the 7th and 9th slots in the rotation. The Celtics were looking for a guy who filled a certain role. He certainly has warts, but most guys who are in the 7th-9th spots in the rotation do -- that's why they're on the bench a lot. If Gallo were taking the same amount of salary space as Kapono, he'd be getting $13 million this year, instead of $6.5 million, and then you might have a better argument. But Gallo is being paid like a reserve who can do some things, but not everything well, and that's the role the Celtics have for him.
It's not an amazing signing, and he wasn't my first choice. But as I've said repeatedly, the Celtics best chance to get an impact player has always been through the TPE, because impact guys are making $13-17 million (or more), and not $6.5 million.
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