{"id":166682,"date":"2021-01-30T08:21:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T05:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/immanuel-quickley-makes-it-hard-to-deny-his-knicks-potential\/"},"modified":"2021-01-30T08:21:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T05:21:19","slug":"immanuel-quickley-makes-it-hard-to-deny-his-knicks-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/immanuel-quickley-makes-it-hard-to-deny-his-knicks-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"#Immanuel Quickley makes it hard to deny his Knicks potential"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Immanuel Quickley makes it hard to deny his Knicks potential<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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You knew this was going to be a stylish Garden evening for point guards when Walt Frazier walked out of the Friday night cold, into the arena in his full-length, white fur coat he bought during the 1973 championship season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it\u2019s zero degrees, I like to bring out the minks,\u2019\u2019 Frazier said. \u201cI wear it like Al Capone.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Hours later, the heat was brought again by the Knicks\u2019 splendid rookie point guard Immanuel Quickley as he looks to carry on Frazier\u2019s legacy where so many others have failed before.<\/p>\n

After RJ Barrett dominated the first half, Quickley delivered a flurry of knockout blows to the Cavaliers, swimming his way to 19 points in the game<\/a>\u2019s final 12:40 in the Knicks\u2019 feel-good 102-81 triumph.<\/p>\n

With Quickley pulling a Portland, when the Kentucky product scored 21 fourth-quarter points, it will again stir social media<\/a> to coax Tom Thibodeau to start him over Elfrid Payton (two points).<\/p>\n

The Knicks coach would have loved to talk more about holding Cleveland to 81 points and 34.5 percent shooting, but received yet another nagging query about starting Quickley, who finished with 25.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always a thought with everything,\u2019\u2019 Thibodeau said. \u201cBecause someone doesn\u2019t start it\u2019s not that important to me. It\u2019s having groups that play well together. And you can always finish with the guys who give you the best chance to win the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Frazier, he said he is impressed with a young charge whom college scouts didn\u2019t see as a point guard.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a bona fide point guard,\u2019\u2019 Frazier said later on the MSG Network telecast.<\/p>\n

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Immanuel Quickley is congratulated by his Knicks teammates.<\/figcaption>
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Frazier had an emotional moment before tip-off as his teammate of four seasons, Harthorne Wingo, who died last weekend at age 73, was honored in a mostly empty arena.<\/p>\n

The public address announcer, Mike Walczewski, asked for a moment of silence for Wingo, calling him the \u201cbeloved member of the \u201973 championship team and one of the most popular players in Knicks history. His unheralded crowd-pleasing actions and circus shots on the court endured him as a Garden fan favorite. His name, game and smile will forever be remembered.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

There should have been old \u201cWing-Go\u2019\u2019 chants to follow the moment of silence, but this is the 2020-21 pandemic season with no fans.<\/p>\n

Quickley has not yet played in front of a Garden crowd, but that will happ<\/a>en one day. The Garden would have erupted when Quickley, after being knocked to the floor on his stomach after burying a 3-pointer, did a swim move.<\/p>\n

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