While it’s certainly not the same as being without a star scorer for a key playoff game, Tom Thibodeau’s reality late Sunday morning—that he was going to be without injured Knicks wing stopper Quentin Grimes—was a tough one. Despite Grimes’s youth, he was the guy Thibodeau planned to have take on the assignment of guarding superstar scorer Donovan Mitchell.
So without Grimes, Thibodeau turned to Josh Hart—a skilled wing himself, but also a player who’s been on four teams in six years and has only been with New York since early February.
But here’s the takeaway: Hart, true to form, was the jack of all trades he almost always is.
