Rookie wall? More like a rookie fence. Immanuel Quickley just needed time to scale it.

The first-round pick out of Kentucky has begun to again resemble the impactful reserve guard who was so pivotal to the Knicks’ success before hitting a roadblock.

Taking advantage of increased minutes due to Alec Burks (COVID-19 health and safety protocols list) missing the past seven games, Quickley has scored in double figures in four of the Knicks’ past five games.

“I always try to go in and play free,” he said. “Having fun is probably the biggest thing I emphasize every time I’m on the floor.”

His latest quality performance came in the team’s 113-94 victory over the Bulls on Wednesday night, a significant bounce-back win after its nine-game winning streak was snapped by the Suns on Monday. After the Knicks’ 18-point lead was erased, the 6-foot-3 Quickley came up big in the fourth quarter, scoring 12 points as Tom Thibodeau’s team ran away from Chicago in the final stanza.

“He’s big time, especially in the fourth,” RJ Barrett said. “He really gave us a good push there, got us a good lead kind of on his own. He got going, we were looking for him and he just continued to deliver.”

It was just the latest such example. Quickley scored 17 points in a narrow win over the Hornets on April 20 and 20 points, along with four assists, in an overtime victory over the Hawks a day later. In his past five games, Quickley is averaging 13.4 points on 52.3 percent shooting in 21.6 minutes per game, after failing to reach double figures in seven of his previous eight games.

During that stretch, Quickley said he was working on making adjustments, that teams were trying to take away his patented floater, and he was spending extra time watching film to see how teams were defending him differently. It didn’t feel like he hit a rookie wall. If he did, Quickley has knocked it down.“As a rookie, I’m blessed to be in a situation where I have great vets, great teammates, great coaches around me,” Quickley said.