I giocatori italiani di basket nella NBA: Andrea Bargnani, Marco Belinelli, Danilo Gallinari e Nicolò Melli...ma non solo
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più che deriderlo ammirano la sua determinazione e la sua voglia di mettersi alla prova e propongono un concetto come: se non c'è riuscito Jeffries come puoi sperarci tu! che è abbastanza una stronzata perché qualcuno in partita lo dovrà marcare...shaka ha scritto:http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_d ... nba,229640
il Gallo vuole marcare Anthony, gli americani lo deridono
Danilo Gallinari(notes), who is not a great defender. Or even a good defender. Excellent hair, though.
Danilo Gallinari messed with 'Melo -- and the New York Knicks emerged as the winners.
Gallinari scored 17 of his 28 points during a spirited duel with Carmelo Anthony in the third quarter and the Knicks beat the Denver Nuggets 109-104 on Tuesday night.
"He was taking the challenge. I took the challenge. We played a great game and he played a great game, and we won," Gallinari said.
The second-year forward from Italy matched shots -- and words -- with one of the NBA's biggest stars.
"Actually it was kind of fun for me to see him hold his ground and not back down," Anthony said. "He was kind of talking back to me out there, too, which I was kind of surprised."
Al Harrington added 23 points for the Knicks, who climbed out of an early 12-point hole and took control late in the third period. David Lee finished with 12 points and 16 rebounds.
Anthony scored 36 points and Chauncey Billups had 25 for the Nuggets, who lost their second straight and fell into a tie with the Dallas Mavericks for the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference playoffs. Their magic number for clinching a postseason spot remained at three.
The Nuggets had won the last four meetings -- Anthony scored a career-high 50 in the last matchup -- their longest winning streak ever against the Knicks. They seemed on their way to easily extending that run before the game changed after halftime.
Denver played its eighth game under Adrian Dantley since coach George Karl was diagnosed with throat cancer. Karl will not return until April, after the Nuggets have returned home from their five-game road trip. A source told ESPN.com's Chris Sheridan tt is unlikely Karl will return to coaching before the playoffs.
Anthony and Gallinari became involved in a sometimes testy back and forth midway through the third quarter, and the Knicks got the better of it. After Anthony's basket gave the Nuggets a two-point lead with 3:37 to go, Gallinari hit consecutive 3-pointers to ignite an 11-0 spurt to end the period. Harrington's 3 with 3.9 seconds left sent New York to the fourth with an 83-74 advantage.
Anthony wouldn't divulge what Gallinari said to him, but it was enough to get the officials to order the talking to stop.
"That's the challenge. That's basketball," Gallinari said. "Talking is a great part of basketball. If you don't talk in basketball, you cannot play basketball. You've got to talk."
Anthony scored 12 in the quarter, appearing he would get the better of Gallinari earlier in the period, when the Nuggets were going to their All-Star on every trip and he seemed amused and annoyed by the Italian's attempts to check him. He jawed at Gallinari after some of his baskets, but Gallinari gave as good as he got.
"You can see him clicking, taking the challenge," Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni said. "Now the challenge for him will be, he needs to be clicking every night and that's not who's in front of him. That's a little bit of, if he wants to go to that next level, then the game's got to be the challenge. It can't be, 'OK, I got Carmelo or Kobe or whoever.'"
Straquoto....mighty ha scritto:Danilo Gallinari messed with 'Melo -- and the New York Knicks emerged as the winners.
Gallinari scored 17 of his 28 points during a spirited duel with Carmelo Anthony in the third quarter and the Knicks beat the Denver Nuggets 109-104 on Tuesday night.
"He was taking the challenge. I took the challenge. We played a great game and he played a great game, and we won," Gallinari said.
The second-year forward from Italy matched shots -- and words -- with one of the NBA's biggest stars.
"Actually it was kind of fun for me to see him hold his ground and not back down," Anthony said. "He was kind of talking back to me out there, too, which I was kind of surprised."
Al Harrington added 23 points for the Knicks, who climbed out of an early 12-point hole and took control late in the third period. David Lee finished with 12 points and 16 rebounds.
Anthony scored 36 points and Chauncey Billups had 25 for the Nuggets, who lost their second straight and fell into a tie with the Dallas Mavericks for the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference playoffs. Their magic number for clinching a postseason spot remained at three.
The Nuggets had won the last four meetings -- Anthony scored a career-high 50 in the last matchup -- their longest winning streak ever against the Knicks. They seemed on their way to easily extending that run before the game changed after halftime.
Denver played its eighth game under Adrian Dantley since coach George Karl was diagnosed with throat cancer. Karl will not return until April, after the Nuggets have returned home from their five-game road trip. A source told ESPN.com's Chris Sheridan tt is unlikely Karl will return to coaching before the playoffs.
Anthony and Gallinari became involved in a sometimes testy back and forth midway through the third quarter, and the Knicks got the better of it. After Anthony's basket gave the Nuggets a two-point lead with 3:37 to go, Gallinari hit consecutive 3-pointers to ignite an 11-0 spurt to end the period. Harrington's 3 with 3.9 seconds left sent New York to the fourth with an 83-74 advantage.
Anthony wouldn't divulge what Gallinari said to him, but it was enough to get the officials to order the talking to stop.
"That's the challenge. That's basketball," Gallinari said. "Talking is a great part of basketball. If you don't talk in basketball, you cannot play basketball. You've got to talk."
Anthony scored 12 in the quarter, appearing he would get the better of Gallinari earlier in the period, when the Nuggets were going to their All-Star on every trip and he seemed amused and annoyed by the Italian's attempts to check him. He jawed at Gallinari after some of his baskets, but Gallinari gave as good as he got.
"You can see him clicking, taking the challenge," Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni said. "Now the challenge for him will be, he needs to be clicking every night and that's not who's in front of him. That's a little bit of, if he wants to go to that next level, then the game's got to be the challenge. It can't be, 'OK, I got Carmelo or Kobe or whoever.'"
G.O.D.O.
