Big props going out right now to Langston Galloway for being the least turnover-prone player in the whole league. Not just on the Pistons, not just in the Central division, not just in the Eastern conference, but in the whole league comprised of only the best basketball players in the world. He’s the one you want most on your team if the goal of the game was not “score the most points” but “turn the ball over the least”. He’d be the number one pick in the draft. His player archetype is often the type that snags that honor; the shoot-only guards/forwards who don’t assume any secondary ball-handling duties. The Tony Snells of the world, the Steve Novaks and the Daequan Cooks. And the Langston Galloways.
It seems like so long ago since he was unexpectedly putting up decent numbers on the Knicks as an undrafted rookie. Lots of Knicks fans back then would just not shut up about this dude, they were so hyped that even I got a little hyped also. The hype was contagious. I guess averaging 11 ppg on sub-40 percent shooting for the worst team in the league doesn’t bode well for having a good career, because it’s been downhill for him since then.
Pistons fans are decidedly NOT hyped for him. They wonder why he can’t make more threes when he’s one of the only players on their roster who can actually hit them and not just take them. I wonder the same, honestly, but I figure it’s because the Pistons have a system where open looks just aren’t generated. At least, not when Blake Griffin is in the game. Player movement dies when the ball hits his hands.