Immanuel Quickley Year 2 IG post
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Quickley has more upside than Hagans. Quickley is a better shooter and distributor. Hagans is a better defender and slasher.
Tremendous news! IQ was never halfway out the door like Quade, so not a fair comparison. We are absolutely loaded at guard for next year
Lots of people feared he'd transfer. I'm very happy to be able to celebrate with other real Kentucky fans getting a 5-star guard who showed nice flashes of talent back for a second year. It's great he posted that to give us a moment to be thankful to have him back.
Not bad to have a Mcdonald's All American and three point champ potentially be your 3rd string PG. I'd say we will have a top 5 backcourt!
At one point, we were speculating about Maxey reclassifying and having Hagans, Quickley, and Maxey all together last year. Who could have predicted we'd have all three of them a year older and more experienced?
They both have nothing on Adidas...... best distributor out there... amirite?
Ha. wild stuff. Our backcourt should be a consistent top5 all season. Maybe at times it's the best, maybe someone else pushes up to the top.. but they be an elite crew all year.
If Hagans gets his defensive mojoback.. watch out. I still have NO IDEA where that went..
Quickley has a much different swagger about him than green did though. His freshman year, Green had so many “me first” moments where he needed to be in the spotlight, while quickley has taken his backseat roll extremely well and hasn’t shown a single sign of the me first mentality
He and EJ are the two guys I really see making a big leap forward
Anxiously waiting for confirmation that EJ (I'm like 95% sure) and Nick (maybe 65%?) will be returning.
We might have two sophomore guards, a redshirt sophomore guard, a sophomore forward, junior center, and grad transfer forward/center.
If you think about it we were pretty much "set" at every spot this year. You need everyone to improve and learn to play as a team over the course of the season imo, experience adversity and overcome it together, so they can have the skills and confidence in each other to peak at the right time.
I think it's transfer or nothing for Richards and EJ. They aren't on any mock drafts, something even Hagans was on sporadically.
I would be dumbfounded if they did anything but return, with the minutes they will have at the 4 and 5.
But Dante and the small possibility of Hurt/McDaniels could change things.
That's why I say 95% for EJ. But for no real reason except that he played 12 mpg as a sophomore, probably won't be a starter next year, and that we have about 1 transfer a year, I'm concerned we could lose Nick.
100%. Also if you are going to be small, better be quick/fast and have ability to defend and at least set up teammates. Things were so bad with him, he couldn't even pass the ball at the end of his time at UK. Going to UW is giving up. He'll play zone, and never get challenged to improve-like all Syracuse small guards. Know it's UW, but Hopkins is Cuse through and through.
Nick is in serious relationship with UK Volleyball player, she will be a SR next yr, her Soph yr think she was poy
Out of those, I could see any of them getting there, most likely would be IQ and Brooks. The reason I say Brooks is because he is high energy and with our focus on rebounding, he will get a lot of cleanup points. Not necessarily because he is polished offensively as much as I believe he will get dirty work points.
Very intrigued two PGs are returning to Kentucky for a sophomore season to go along a stud like Tyrese Maxey.
Let’s wait a bit before anointing Maxey. Every year people do this and almost every year the player doesn’t live up to it early or not at all in year one (Harrison, Teague, Hagans, Quickly, Briscoe, ). The ones that do hit the ground running are always elite at something or just elite (Wall, Fox, Murray ). Maxey like all the other guards, will have a adjustment period. I think he eventually hits his stride but will hit some bumps and hopefully the same people who put up high expectations for him don’t do their usual over reaction when he doesn’t meet them right away
Every player has an adjustment period, it doesn't mean that the player shouldn't be lauded as a great player coming in. Maxey can just flat out score the ball, that's where the excitement is coming from and there is nothing wrong with expressing that, he'll more than likely be the leading scorer on next year's team.
You never know but I don't really get the Baker transfer thing other than he is from California. I don't see sitting out another year.
Considering he missed the preseason and some games too after not playing at all, no practice, no playground essentially a whole year before that I think he contributed admirably and had as much of a role as the situation allowed.
Yes, it is a very big deal.
Guards with some seasoning and ability is pretty big jumping off point material to go in with.
Sophomore and Junior returning bigs.
Add a grad transfer up front that can hit from outside.
Infuse with some freshman talent and something might be simmering up more than some want to accept the possibility of.
Of course having KJ and/or Herro back as well would be phenomenal but even without either we are in many ways better off than usual by a good amount. We could even make an at least plausibly functional non freshman line up including a 6th man.
Richards/Sestina
Montgomery/Sestina
Baker
Quickley
Hagans
I might be in the minority here, but I actually like IM’s game. I think he’s really solid in a lot of areas. I also think he’s going to keep improving.
I’m thrilled he’s not transferring.
Quickley can play point guard at the high D1 level, plays defense, and isn't a turnover waiting to happen.
There is very little comparison at all.
So glad Quickley is returning.
Hagans, Maxey, and Quickley will be one of the best backcourt rotations in college next year.
I just wonder where the minutes will come from for Baker? I really hope he comes back, but it's going to be tough to get minutes for him.
Hagans, Maxey, and Quickley will be one of the best backcourt rotations in college next year.
I just wonder where the minutes will come from for Baker? I really hope he comes back, but it's going to be tough to get minutes for him.
Terrible news. It is so much more difficult to win a national title with experienced guards who can defend and shoot.
Sarcasm off. Thanks, IQ for coming back too!
If Quickley continues to improve, we might see a lot of three guard action with Hagans, Quickley, and Maxey on the floor together.