Immanuel Quickley will fit right in

Samson Folk goes in-depth on how Immanuel Quickley will fit with the Raptors upon his return.

Immanuel Quickley shot 73 percent on three-pointers off the screen last season as a Raptor. He also shot 34% on guarded C&S three-pointers (pretty good) and 47% on unguarded C&S three-pointers (elite) last season. This aspect of his game helps speed up the plays he’s involved in as a shooter and adds a lot of spacing to a Raptors offense that desperately needed it. Many of the Raptors’ classic plays – Spain Leak, Fred VanVleet’s flex screen into the pin-down, 77 Shallow – utilize Quickley as the finesse shooter who provides the necessary level of threat.

With the ball, Quickley struggled a bit last year, as he put up pick-and-roll numbers in the middle of the road (55th percentile) as a ball handler and struggled mightily to score inside the arc, where he was at 2-pointers -Attempts achieved a hit rate of 34 percent. He also had enormous problems getting by without handoffs. A small antidote to Quickley’s driving style is that he extends his dribbling deeper into the paint and is slightly more resistant to impacts from the wing.

Quickley’s estimated return is Dec. 19, according to ESPN. He has been out of the Raptors’ lineup since November 10th with a partial UCL tear. He has only played one full game this entire season — on Nov. 9 against the Los Angeles Clippers — and even then he was placed on a minutes restriction. It’s certainly been an unlucky season so far.

On 914 possessions last season, BBQ’s 3-man lineup was +3.8 per 100 possessions. If you change that and include Jakob Poeltl, the 4-man lineup is +11.5 points per 100 possessions – good for a 95th percentile ranking. Your biggest strengths on offense? They get to the rim often and hit a very high percentage of the threes they make.

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