Immanuel Quickley (PG/SG, NYK): Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

Immanuel Quickley is worth considering as a fantasy basketball waiver wire pickup heading into Week 8 of the NBA season.

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ANALYSIS:  The Knicks have finally taken the step and labeled Kemba Walker as a Certified Cooked-man. Cold world. It's now Alec Burks starting at the point, with both Immanuel Quickley and Derrick Rose manning the second unit as Coach Thibs prefer the vet and the youngin doing it off the pine. Not that we can complain looking at IQ's numbers this season, though, and looking forward to an uptick in playing time and usage rate.

In the three games the Knicks have played without featuring Kemba, IQ has logged 31, 38, and finally 39 minutes last Friday. Oh, by the way, Quickley started in that joint against Chicago on Dec. 2, just in case. The prior-high mark in minutes was sitting at 27 all the way back on Nov. 10, but you see how the absence of Walker has put the playing time above even the wildest of expectations. Obviously, the efficiency has cratered to below league-average levels with that massive amount of playing time, but that doesn't mean the higher volume of play isn't helping IQ.

We can confirm that Quickley has finally fixed his shooting percentages in every category (46.8 FG% and 92.6 FT% since Nov. 10) while he's kept up averages of 13 PPG, 2.3 3PG, 2.7 RPG, 2.8 APG, and 0.57 SPG in the past two weeks (seven games played for him). The freebies are falling, it's been 14 games in a row scoring 1+ treys (he actually has scored 2+ in 11 of those 14 matches), and the points are pretty much always on the double-digit count (he's failed to reach 10 points in only one of his last seven games getting back to Nov. 20).

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