Immanuel Quickley (PG, NYK) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

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ANALYSIS: Just a few hours after Shams Charania dropped his latest report with bits of information about who's available in trade talks--one of those players being Immanuel Quickley--the Knicks faced Golden State away from home after having won back-to-back contests against Utah and Denver.

Obviously, the Knicks went on to lose for the first time with IQ putting up a dud and a 0-for-5 shooting night. That sucked, but IQ has been much better than that this season in which I've come to label a defensive-breakout year after that part of the game never really showed up in his first two years in the L.

Quickley has played more of late with Derrick Rose and Quentin Grimes removed from the rotation (entirely) by Tom Thibodeau recently, turning the Knicks into a nine-man squad of late. Quickley usually alternates good and bad outings, but overall he should be a viable play for GMs in deeper formats looking for some help at the one and two positions.

IQ does a little bit of everything nightly. In the last week (four games played) he's averaged 12 PPG, 3.5+ RPG, 3.5 APG, and 2.5 SPG. He's not going to hoist 17 or 10 FGA as he did against OKC last Sunday and Utah on Tuesday, but you can count on some 6+ FGA nightly dropping at a 36% clip (expected to positively regress at least a bit considering IQ has shot 39% from the floor and 36% from three-point range in his career).

Quickley is also leading the second unit in APG (3.2) only behind Jalen Brunson's 6.8 in the Knicks as a whole while only turning the ball over 1.4 times a pop (Brunson is averaging 1.8 TOPG).

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