On what could have been an embarrassing night for the Knicks, Quentin Grimes did what his team’s front office could not: He locked down Donovan Mitchell.
For the first time since the New York native was dealt to the Cavaliers and not the Knicks, Mitchell returned to the Garden on Sunday. He had a chance to demonstrate to the franchise and its fans that he is the type of star worthy of emptying all the assets in a team’s trade vault, which Cleveland essentially did.
Mitchell scored 23 points but on 8-for-22 shooting and went 2 of 11 from 3-point range, blanketed by the physical Grimes everywhere he went.“I knew that was going to be a big matchup with everything that happened this summer,” Grimes said after his Knicks held an opponent under 100 points for the first time this season“That’s one of the best players in the NBA. Had to stay locked in, and I feel like I did a good job on him.
“Quentin has great feet. He has strength, anticipation, and you’re going to have to work,” head coach Tom Thibodeau said after the Knicks improved to 11-13 Sunday. “Those [elite] guys, you can guard them great, and their greatness is they’ve got the ability to make [shots]. But if you make them work, then over the course of the game — you make them work for those points, maybe that takes its toll.
The emergence of the 2021 first-round pick has come with dominoes. Cam Reddish and Derrick Rose rode the bench Sunday as healthy DNPs for the first time this season, though Thibodeau cited the back-to-back in giving Rose some rest. Reddish had been exploited defensively against the Mavericks and may be falling out of the rotation.
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