But the biggest thing for me is that his +/- is the worst on the team at -42. Iggy was brought in to shore up our perimeter defense, but so far, that hasn’t happened.

My suggestion is maybe bring him off the bench and let him play with the 2nd unit of McGee and Dre. Heres a few reasons why:

-Iggy and Dre have played together before and seem to work together well
-Moving Iggy to the bench allows Ty and Gallo to become the top scoring options for the starting 5
-It reduces the need for a two PG lineup that GK loves
-Corey Brewer provides great energy, defense and has the best +/- on the team at +16, and is also our best three point shooter from the corner at 42%, he can focus on playing defense and not taking over 10 shots per game.

Iggy will still play starter liker mins, it just means hopefully with the switch, we get off to better starts and we have a great scorer coming off the bench.

The concerning thing for me is that Gallo took 25 FT attempts in his first 2 games, then just 11 over his next 7 games. Was that a mental lapse or was more going on? Gallo needs to become the go to guy of this team every night. Ty has taken a major step backwards, and Gallo needs to identify that and take charge.

When Gallo drives and is aggressive, good things happen. It kind of rubs off on the other guys, like last night vs Memphis, we shot 28 FTs to the Grizzlies 17. Faried, Brewer, McGee all got to the line multiple times because we became aggressive. I also noticed that when we grabbed a def rebound, there was more outlet passes and quicker movement, and thats how Denver score easy baskets.

I hope Gallo realises that he has the potential to do this every night and be the leader of this group. I hope that last night was not a one off, or one evry 10 games thing.

Also, this win vs Memphis means nothing if we lose to Minny tomorrow whilst they are missing Rubio, Love, Chase, Roy and Barea.

So, unless he’s getting to the line, hoisting 3pt’ers really are his best option.

His TS% is just average, his PER is average. As this team has no proven scorer, you need more from his position.

I am afraid his ceiling has been reached. I hope I am wrong.

I agree that other stats may have more value in some contexts. However, the only question I’m addressing here is, as the title suggests, “Can Gallo get his groove back?” In other words, can he return to the level of play we saw from him in 2011? More specifically, how optimistic or pessimistic should we be that he will recover from his horrible start to this season?

In comparing the first set of five games to the second, I’m attempting to zoom in on his trajectory *this* season. Neither career stats or adjusted +/- are good measurements for that purpose. Granted, TS% and eFG% are better measures of shooting efficiency when making player-to-player comparisons. But the raw FG, 3pt and FT percentages are appropriate here, in measuring a single player’s stats in one set of games versus another.

FWIW, his eFG% and TS% are .324 and .392 in the first five games and .474 and .518 in the next five games, respectively.

Also, I couldn’t agree more that he should drive more and take fewer threes. I had hoped the emphasis I put in the post on the importance of getting to the line would make that clear, but maybe I should have said it more explicitly. At any rate, 100% in agreement there.