I don't like the guy (gallinari). It's like with some of you guys and the Isiah's seed concept: this is D'Antoni's seed. When D'Antoni is gone, and that umbilical cord is broken, I can then look at Gallo as being his own man, playing for a coach that won't play favorites with him.
Now to the comments people directed toward my previous post. I think he can be a good role player, when it comes to offense, insofar as shooting spot up threes, based on his physical abilities/limitations. I mean, he can barely run and his dribbling, to defenders, is like Christmas: the Knicks are going to cough the ball up, if it's in his hands. I don't see how you can imagine him doing more. There is no evidence that he can create his own shot, whether in the post, high or low, or off the dribble.
As for defense, I'd like to see him bulk up and try to play in the middle, maybe at the 4. If he can do that, and maybe learn to do a little something more offensively, within his limits, he can be good.
And being 21 doesn't mean jack. Most guys in this league are cooked by their early 30's. He doesn't have forever to show what he can do. It's now, or in a relatively short amount of time: next year, at the latest. In the NBA, a guy could be gone in a second.
Finally, Nowitzki's numbers don't prove anything about Gallo. They are two different people. Because Nowitzki played well as a sophomore, but not as a rookie shows that DIRK needed that extra year, it doesn't mean that every other rookie becomes legendary by getting an extra year to practice.
Anyway, I'm leaving Gallo alone, he didn't draft himself.... oh, wait, he did. Anyway, what's done is done: I'm just disgusted with Knicks management and coaching. No logic, no intelligence, no integrity, in the face of fan and flavor-of-the-week pressure, just raw reaction and politics.
