Immanuel Quickley (PG, NYK) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

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ANALYSIS: With Tom Thibodeau at the Knicks' helm, it will never happen, but there are growing voices calling for RJ Barrett's benching in favor of Immanuel Quickley. Of course, and again, that will never happen in New York as that'd mean sending the face of the franchise to the pine while starting a man that was put on the market just a few weeks ago. Folks might be right in calling for that change, though.

IQ had a brief stint of games in which he was named among the Knicks' starting lineup with Barrett out injured sandwiching the start of the calendar year. That's already a month ago, of course, but it's worth remembering that Quickley averaged a silly 38+ FPPG in that span, putting up a nightly 20-5-5-1 stat line.

Even though he's now just back to the pine, Quickley is the clear sixth man of the Knicks and in a team coached by Thibs is pretty much the same as being a starter anywhere else. IQ is playing 31 MPG off the bench since Barrett returned and averaging 25 FPPG.

Quickley has cut down his turnovers to below one per game in his last 10 games played while still dishing out a reasonable amount of dimes (2.9 APG compared to 3.3 before that span, including the stint as a starter).

IQ is one of only seven players with 1,450+ MP played through Friday (76 players have played that many minutes so far) while starting fewer than 50% of his team's games, and one of just three with less than 20% of those games in the starting five.

Even then, he's already racked up more FP than 16 of those 76 players through the season and is keeping up a league-average 0.90 FP/min, something only 53-of-76 of those men have been able to do throughout the year to date.

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