Gallinari, new ankle problem

From Dallas comes good news and bad news. The good, which will cause discussion, came out of Mavericks owner Mark Cuban’s well-stocked hat in the pre-game press briefing. It may be that his team with 29 percent, is among the worst in 3-point shooting in the entire league, has been sucked with the latest results into the vortex of the utmost 3 playoff spots in the West was trying to shake it (but with the 0/10 at halftime the boomerang was coming back on his head…) he proposed to set back the 3-point shot by 15 centimeters to improve the game and the mid-range shot. “Because,” this was the summary of his thesis, “today we see creepy shots from the arc, and we need to make sure that kids have a more useful visual example to grow technically.

The bad news, on the other hand, for Denver fans, Gallinari and his team came instead with 1 minute left in the third quarter when Gallinari for a bad ankle sprain was carried out on his arms. It was one of the episodes that gave even more courage to the Mavericks not to consider closed the game that was flowing one way, with a 55-32 lead of the “Nuggets” in the second quarter considered unbridgeable. In truth Denver would have had a chance to win again in the finale when it went ahead by 9 points and again on the last play of regulation time when Nowitzki stepped up from the free line to the lunette to create a block for Raymond Felton. It may be that DJ Augustin defending on Felton has only been coming for a week and is not familiar with the automatics of the game, the fact is that in his first good game (20 points) the former Thundercity player stayed on the block and with a shot off the dribble Felton gave him a mere one and a half finding himself inside an area that looked like the parking lot of a “mall” on closing day. Raymond the panzer scored 8 golden points in the comeback and on the momentum 8 more in the overtime bringing home a very delicate contest and where a rift in his bench was also noticeable. No one really understood why Zaza Pachulia who started in the quintet played only 8 minutes (without any basket).

The fact is that with Gallinari on the court (at the time of his exit “author” of 12 points and 7 rebounds), Denver would never have lost: he is the glue of this team, the added director, he knows how to melina and how to make the opponent fall into a foul, not coincidentally he is the 4th in the NBA for the art of getting free throws .

His coach, however, did not want to speculate on the incident of his go-to player. “Although deprived of the Rooster, we were up by 9 points with two minutes left and had a bunch of chances to win the game and not go to overtime,” Mike Malone cut in.

The not-so-good news is made all the more bitter because of the correlation between two things: the defeat, the cause, and its effect and that is the extent of the injury in a season in which the team has been on a downturn with the absence of 5 games due to a similar injury of its best shooter (19.8 pe gara).

Denver playing on the road made no statement on the extent of the sprain, but a twitter launched by an ESPN contributor in real time has the effect of a frost, should it be confirmed on the remaining hopes of rejoining the train for 8th place , hopes blossomed with the win on the Clippers’ court. ” Leading Nuggets scorer Danilo Gallinari will have an MRI to determine severity but said he expects to miss significant time after spraining his ankle Friday night,” this is the text of the news story in which the Rooster reportedly hinted that he is not optimistic about a short recovery time, although only after the MRI will the doctors’ precise diagnosis be available.

Dallas won and proved with David Lee’s game (double-double with 14 rebounds including seven on offense, never had he grabbed so many in the past few months in Boston) that he had put a good deal at the discount. “We took it back by the hair, and once the guys warmed up their hands, they knew we could win,” said the former Warriors forward, who will end the season managing to save his 15-million contract, the last part of which will be paid for by Mark Cuban.

The hero of the comeback, however, was Raymond Felton, who kept his feet on the ground , even as there were alri 10 seconds after that basket and Denver spent them poorly with a Barton layup. “I had a duty not to lose this game because of how embarrassing our performance was,” he admitted.

Meanwhile, in the veryice between the top two in the East, the second,Toronto, beat Cleveland and we understand two things: why on earth Casey’s team came in so high and Lowry, disposed of by Houston, author of 43 points, is one of the best playmakers around and instead all the problems of the team this summer ultrafavorite in the betting bettings, problems that have not been resolved with the firing of David Blatt and the reliance on the highest paid assistant coach in the league (6 million d dollars). And among these prolems we must evidently also throw in that of Irving’s fleas, which to see his performance since the transformation in the Oklahoma City hotel continue to be a nightmare.

Close to triple-double John Wall (23p 8r 11a), LeBron (25p 8r 9a) and very close Chris Paul (40p 9r 13a) and DeMarcus Cousins (26p 15r 9a).

SKY SPORTS TV – Live between Oklahoma on a long Sunday begins at 2 a.m. with Oklahoma-Golden State (delayed 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.) at 9 p.m. Live at 9:30 p.m. Atlanta Hawks-Charlotte Hornets (delayed Monday 29 at 2 p.m. and 11:15 p.m. on SS 2 HD). Weekly programming continues at 1:30 p.m. between Tuesday and Wednesday, March 1-2 Heat-Bulls (deferred Wednesday 2 p.m. 2HD and 6 and 10:30 p.m. 3 HD). It continues with Clippers-Thunder at 4:30 a.m. between Wednesday, March 2 and Thursday, March 3 (deferred Thursday 2 p.m. 2HD and 6 and 10:30 p.m.n on SS 3 HD) and Cavaliers-Wizards at 2 a.m. ago Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5 with deferred Sunday at 4 p.m. on SS 2 HD)

RESULTS Friday, Feb. 26 – Indiana-CHARLOTTE 95-96 (32 P.George 6r 4a; 26 Mrw.Williams +13r); Philadelphia-WASHINGTON 94-103 (21 J.Okafor 6r; 23 J.Wall 8r 11a); NEW YORK-Orlando 108-95 (18 K.Porzingis; 17 A.Gordon 8r); TORONTO-Cleveland 99-97 (43 K.Lowry 5r 9a), 15 T.Ross 3/6 da3, 6 D.Derozan 1/11; 25 L.James 2/4 da3 8r 9a 6pe, 20 K.Love 5/15 9r 5a, 10 K.Irving 4/11 0/2 a3, T.Thompson +10r); ATLANTA-Chicago 103-88 (18 A.Horford , 16 P.Gasol +17r 3a); Sacramento-LA CLIPPERS 107-117 (26 D.Cousins + 15r 9a, 23 R.Gay, 2 M.Belinelli 1/4 0/1 da3 tl0/2 1r 1a 1pe 13′, R.Rondo absent; 40 C.Paul tl10/10 9r 13a, 21 J.Crawford 7/19 0/6 da3, 8 D.Jordan +11r tl2/5); LA Lakers-MEMPHIS 95-112 (22 D.Rusell 3r 3a, K.Bryant absent; 15 Z.Randolph +15r); DALLAS-Denver 122-116 dts (27 C.Parsons 4/10 da3 5r, 20 D.Nowitzki 10/21 0/3 da3 +13r; R.Felton; 14 D.Lee 14r 6/10, 0 Z.Pachulia;22 W.Barton 9/24 0/7 da3 9r 20 K.Faried +12r, 20 DJ Augustin 7/14 3/6 da3 tl3/4 3a, 12 D.Gallinari 4/11 1/3 da3 tl3/5 7r 3a 1st 1pe).

Edited by Enrico Campana