Clippers are now 16 - 5. I?m prepared for the overreactions just like when we lost to the now 15 - 5 Utah Jazz. Some teams are just better than everyone else right now.
It’s gonna be hard to keep IQ out of the lineup as starting PG. The handwriting is written on the wall for Frank, DSjr, and and anyone else. The rook is taking over the PG position finally. And whomever was against RJ looks dumb now. We have a young nucleus to build around now finally.
The kid is generating a lot of buzz around the league with the most comments about the starting PG question between him and Payton. Just a matter of time before Thibs has to pull the trigger on starting the kid, you have to see how that future backcourt of RJ and IQ look together rather than EP and RJ.Ty Lue called Immanuel Quickley a ‘special talent’ after watching him on Sunday afternoon.
Certainly, Quickley’s 25 points off the bench against the Clippers got Lue’s attention. But something Quickley did before tipoff also impressed Lue.
“After he shot (during warmups), he sat down and watched Kawhi (Leonard) shoot and work out for like 15 minutes,” Lue said. “So he’s willing to learn, he wants to learn, he wants to be great. And that’s what you want from young players,” Lue said after the Clippers withstood a challenge from the Knicks and pulled away late for a 14-point win.
Lue’s team – one of the best in the NBA – had a lot of positive things to say about Quickley, the combo guard New York selected with the No. 25 overall pick.
“His float game was off the charts for a young guy,” Paul George said, adding that Quickley’s floater was a topic of discussion among the Clippers after the game.
Something else about Quickley stood out to George on Sunday afternoon.
“I think what I love the most and it’s a hard quality to find: I thought he was fearless,” George said. “He took some big shots.”
Here’s Quickley on why he decided to watch Leonard before the game:
“I’m intrigued on just watching the best players and what they do, their habits. I ask a lot of questions. I’m just a really curious person. So just watching what he does, wasn’t going to really bother him or nothing, ask him questions. But just seeing how he carries himself, what type of pro he is and just really that. I was just intrigued at seeing the best players at our game and what they do.”
Quickley also got a chance to play against Lou Williams, one of the players he’s referenced when talking about those he models his game after.
He shared a message with Williams during the game.
“I just told him he was one of my favorite players. His game, just as far as how smooth he is, his offensive ability, being able to get to his spots, his floater, drawing fouls. I’ve watched a lot of synergy and YouTube highlights of him. I was trying not to foul him tonight because I knew he was just going to try to do that sweep through when he was getting in the lane, so I tried as best as I could. But just being a rookie, being able to talk to somebody like that is really cool.”
The kid is generating a lot of buzz around the league with the most comments about the starting PG question between him and Payton. Just a matter of time before Thibs has to pull the trigger on starting the kid, you have to see how that future backcourt of RJ and IQ look together rather than EP and RJ.
RJ 10 20 pt scoring games in the Knicks 20 games so far, confirming my faith in him as perhaps a future AS. MRob improvement in staying on the floor without fouling another credit to our coaching staff, JR AS play this year and of course the decision to take Quick with the 25th pick. Now if Obi can show he was worth spending a lottery pick on and Kenny Payne can turnaround Kevin Knox game we may have that young nucleus Knicks fans have been clamoring for.