Immanuel Quickley Questionable for Wednesday as Raptors Play the Injury Management Game
Underdog NBA reported: 'Immanuel Quickley (injury management) listed questionable for Wednesday.'
The NBA’s favorite vague phrase has struck again. According to Underdog NBA, guard is listed as questionable for Wednesday night with "injury management."
If you are holding a ticket on a game or staring at a Quickley points prop, you are now officially in the waiting room. "Questionable" in the modern NBA is basically a coin flip weighted by how the training staff feels after their morning coffee.
The frustrating part is how good Quickley looks when he actually laces them up. He is putting up 17.4 points and 5.8 assists across nearly 32 minutes a night this season. The guy produces. The problem is keeping him out of the trainer's room.
Quickley has been battling a stubborn hamstring issue that has haunted him since the playoffs last spring. Calling it injury management is just a polite way of saying the team is terrified of pushing him too hard and watching that hamstring flare up again.
Toronto desperately needs him on the floor. The backcourt looks entirely different when he is running the show versus when he is stuck in street clothes. You cannot build any real momentum when your starting point guard is constantly on a maintenance plan.
Keep an eye on the shootaround reports Wednesday morning. If Quickley sits, expect the betting lines to shift and the to lean heavily on the rest of a battered rotation just to keep the offense breathing.