Which trade could the Detroit Pistons benefit from the most?
“The Rooster”
Basketball Reference nicknames need to become a historical past time. Danilo Gallinari is player that fits the Pistons’ new regimes mold. He’s a durable wing that can stretch the floor, defend multiple positions on the floor and provides veteran leadership.
Plus a first round pick to okc. We will be in luxury tax and I don’t know if we will be good enough to justify it but we will be definitely a better team pic.twitter.com/GzyvABuciM
— matteo Mantelli (@matteo_Mantelli) August 21, 2019
This isn’t a terrible deal but I’m attracted to finding a way to keep Snell with Gallinari. That would likely require Jackson to be sent back to the Thunder. Life comes full circle, eh?
Someone else pondered whether the Thunder would require the Pistons, or another team, to take on Dennis Schroder with Gallinari. That wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world, as Schroder is a quality point guard with the ball in his hands, as he showed in Atlanta. He’s a scorer and will impact the offensive end but would be less of a factor defensively. If giving up Jackson, they could do worse than getting Schroder back in return.
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Back to Gallinari, he’s a 37.6 percent 3-point shooter for his career and hit 43.3 percent of his 3-point attempts. He’s such an offensive weapon that for his career teams have a 118 offensive rating, including the Clippers reaching 125 with him last season.
He’s coming off a career year, in which he scored 19.8 points per game and shot 43.3 percent from 3-point range, both are career high’s when playing a full season.
At 6-foot-10, he can play either wing position and power forward. He could conceivably play a small-ball center in an offensive lineup or late-game, 3-point lineup.
This is a favorable deal as the Thunder would be set up nicely with cap space for 2021.