Quentin Grimes watched from the bench when Pascal Siakam torched the New York Knicks with 52 points last month.
On Friday night, he tried to be a difference-maker, helping the Knicks hold the Raptors’ go-to-guy to 18 points on 4 of 14 shooting to snap an 11-game losing skid in Toronto.
But it wasn’t just Grimes who did the dirty work of slowing down the 6-foot-8 Raptors forward.
Siakam missed his lone field goal attempt against Grimes as his primary defender in two and a half minutes, according to NBA’s matchup tracking data.