- Grimes defended the work ethic of teammate Julius Randle, who battled ankle issues throughout the playoffs, Begley adds. Randle continued to play after aggravating a late-season injury to his left ankle in the series against Cleveland. “It just really shows you that nobody should ever be questioning his toughness, how much he wants it, how much he cares about the team, how much he cares about winning,” Grimes said. “… He cares a lot about this team. He does everything he can possibly (do) to make sure his body is right, to make sure he’s in the best shape possible to make sure he can give it all.”
- Grimes told Ethan Sears of The New York Post that he’s excited to have Donte DiVincenzo on the team, even though the free agent addition might cut into his playing time. Sears suggests they might have a training camp battle for a starting wing role. “I think everything you do is competition,” Grimes said. “You wanna have the best players out there every day to make us better. Competing against him, Josh (Hart), Jalen (Brunson), (Immanuel Quickley) is gonna make everybody better, really.”
- In addition to giving the Knicks more shooting, Brunson believes DiVincenzo will bring an “edge” to the team in whatever role he plays (Twitter link from Knicks Videos).
Playing for the Select Team is only part of Quentin Grimes‘ summer schedule as he prepares for his third NBA season, writes Ian Begley of SNY.tv. Once he’s done competing against Team USA in Las Vegas, the Knicks guard will head to Memphis to work out with former NBA All-Star and current Tigers coach Penny Hardaway. He also reached out to ex-NBA guard J.J. Redick and spent two days learning the game from him in the Hamptons.
“Got in a real good workout with him, picking his brain about how he comes off pick and rolls, down screens, pin-downs, floppy action,” Grimes said. “Really just try to take as much as I can from him and incorporate it into … this upcoming season.”
After getting uneven playing time as a rookie, Grimes became a regular member of Tom Thibodeau’s rotation last season, starting 66 of the 71 games he played and averaging 11.3 PPG while shooting 38.6% from three-point range. He’s working to improve at making plays off the dribble and wants to upgrade his defense as well.
“To be effective on the offensive end and guard the best player defensively, you’ve got to be in supreme shape,” Grimes said. “That’s one of the big things I learned from JJ. The way he was coming off screens. You’ve got to be one of the top (conditioned) guys in the league. So I’m definitely trying to make sure I’m in the best shape possible coming into training camp.”
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He was a top ten recruit coming out of HS. And was Kansas top recruit that yr. But things didn’t pan out. So he transferred to Houston. Found his game and is still getting better. He has progressed every year since.
Seems he has embraced that work ethic. Cause I can tell you last yr. He came in
much leaner. After having a great SL outing. He reminds me of Murray a lot. His handle is not there yet. So I still see more improvement coming. An excellent 2way talent. I would just like to see him be more aggressive. Working out with Team USA. Should help him and his confidence. For the Knicks to take another step up. Grimes needs to solidify his standing as the starting SG.
Grimes is a player that should be a Knick for a long time. Grimes best SG since Houston IMO. I still wished Knicks signed Seth Curry or Danny Green to get more outside shooters. I also think Knicks will regret trading OB1 instead of Randle. OB1 wanted to be a Knick. Knicks continue to have trouble getting players to come and OB1 needed to stay.
OB1 cursed out his coach. If he wanted to stay, he didn’t think that one through.
Disrespectful to AH.
Donte, Hart, are guys who will push RJ and Grimes. With Quickley and McBride. Makes our guards and wings solid and deep.
To me for this team to become legit in the East. RJ, Grimes, Mitch have to take a step up. Their game has to improve and be more consistent.
They all need to be consistent and the team needs another big guy to replace Obi. An injury to any of the bigs and they’re going to have issues. Not sure Sims is strong enough to play even OB1 minutes.
Sims is a center. Still developing. They do need a backup to Randle. Roby has the size and opportunity to claim it. But I think they will address it in a trade.