Coming into the season there were questions of whether or not they’d gel at all, or at least get a chance to. The multifaceted duo started just nine games together a year earlier, and despite Gallinari appearing better than ever physically during the preseason, it was still difficult to predict how things would look when the lights turned on last week.
Through four games, the Harris-Gallinari combination is wildly exceeding expectations. They have each topped 20 points in the past three games (two wins) and both neared 20 in the opening night loss to Denver. Let’s face it, things got weird in that game and the Clippers failed to make a field goal for more than five minutes, so anything slightly better than a subterranean fourth quarter would have them flush with 20-point games.