Don’t Overcomplicate It, Houston. Immanuel Quickley Checks Every Box.
· Yahoo Sports
The Rockets are clearly lacking a couple of critical contender pieces: a playmaker and a shooter. Busy biting their nails and praying Giannis Antetokounmpo walks through the door, it seems Houston fans are letting practical solutions fly over their heads… considering Immanuel Quickley is both.
Quickley averaged 16.4 points and 5.9 assists this season, knocking down 37.5-percent of his threes on nearly seven attempts per game. For a team that finished 23rd in three-point attempts and regularly struggled to create offense outside of Kevin Durant, those numbers should be setting off alarms- the good kind.
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The catch-and-shoot numbers are what really should be turning heads on this one. Quickley buried 41.1-percent of those looks this season. Imagine that guy spending one trip spotting up next to Durant and the next running the offense himself.
The Rockets have a shortage of players who fit neatly alongside everybody else, not talent. The worst thing Houston can do this summer is trying to force a superstar square peg into a round hole when there’s already a player shaped exactly like the solution.
Quickley is one of the few guards available who doesn’t require an instruction manual. He’s almost 27 years-old, started all 70 games he appeared in this season, and is entering the prime of his career.
Houston doesn’t need to overcomplicate this. Quickley checks more boxes than most of the names being floated around, and somehow he’s barely part of the discussion. Maybe it’s that Toronto has no interest in moving him, or maybe the price is higher than Houston is willing to pay.
What I do know is this: if the Rockets are serious about finding another playmaker who can also shoot, Immanuel Quickley’s name should be coming up a lot more than it is.