“I was pissed off every day, it was a very difficult battle“. As Danilo Gallinari a Afternoon, the Italbasket podcast hosted by Datome and Melli, on the last difficult NBA season. The former Knicks and Denver player changed three franchises during 2023/24, starting with Washington, moving to Detroit and finally landing in Milwaukee. Very little space for him: 12.9 minutes in 39 games, 9.1 minutes in the 17 of the regular season with the Bucks. Gallinari did not hide the fact that he suffered from this little use. “Little by little, towards the end of the season I metabolized it a little better. But at the beginning I was in a bit of difficulty”.
And he continues: “How did I vent my anger? Doing 1vs1 every day. I didn’t know what to do, I spent a lot of time in the gym. Usually you play a lot, you’re there a little less, but I was there from 9 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon. I spent a lot of time in the gym, I let off steam with 1vs1. Often not with teammates who didn’t want to do it but with assistant coaches, former players… At the beginning I tried to stay closer to the coaches, after a month I gave up. It’s not my stuff, I’ll never be a coach. Afterwards I tried to do the exercise bike in the tunnel during the match, but after that I got tired of doing that too. At the beginning of the season I started training after the match, but it’s better to go home. So I started doing it first. You arrive much earlier, there are the rookies and then you who train with them. So that when the game ends you go home to your family first.”
