Immanuel Quickley suffered an injury-riddled 2024-2025 season at a pivotal moment after signing a lucrative extension and expected to take a career leap. The contract sparked league-wide criticism about roster cost and championship intent, intensifying scrutiny on Quickley's performance. Scottie Barnes remains the franchise focal point and must continue evolving for team success, while Brandon Ingram's arrival shifted Quickley down the pecking order and will alter his role. Quickley must perform at a level consistent with starting point guard compensation. Quickley's three-point shooting, especially pull-up range, provides the Raptors with a scarce and valuable offensive skill.
Immanuel Quickley's injury-riddled 2024-2025 season came at an unfortunate time. After getting his payday, Quickley was supposed to take a leap in his career. The Raptors held a press conference in the summer of 2024, announcing the extensions of Quickley and Scottie Barnes to the slogan "The Future Is Now," but both players fell short of those lofty expectations the following year.
The conversation league-wide has been that Quickley's contract was hefty, the Raptors are expensive without any real intention to contend, and as a result, the consensus is to be pessimistic about the Raptors' future. Barnes plays a big part in that. The Raptors will go as far as he takes them. As the focal point of everything they're building, he has to continue to evolve in order for the team to follow suit.
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