After an underwhelming freshman season, Immanuel Quickley exploded as a sophomore at Kentucky and was voted the 2019-20 SEC Player of the Year. His college coach, John Calipari, compared him to former Kentucky standouts like Jamal Murray, Tyler Herro, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
Calipari said this about the future NBA player:
“[Quickley] absolutely works his tail off. He takes his conditioning seriously, has unbelievable discipline, unwavering faith, confidence and spent just about all of his extra time in that gym.”
That’s high praise from one of the great college basketball coaches of our time.