Quentin Grimes smothered Jimmy Butler in Game 5, but the Heat star got his revenge in Game 6.
The Knicks guard had held the white-hot Butler to just 19 points in Game 5, by far his lowest output of the playoffs.
And in 94 possessions against Butler coming into Friday, Grimes had held him to just 16 points on 29.4 percent shooting and 0-for-3 from 3-point range. But Butler erupted in Game 6, and Grimes — playing through a minor knee injury — was invisible on the offensive end as well.Quentin Grimes defends Jimmy Butler during the first half of the Knicks’ 96-92 season-ending Game 6 loss to the Heat.“He was really aggressive,” Grimes told The Post. “I knew he came out and he was going to be really aggressive.
Butler has been as dominant as any player in this postseason. He came into Game 5 in the Garden averaging 33.5 points — the second-most in the playoffs — on 56.1 percent shooting with 6.4 rebounds and 5.1 assists. Grimes slowed him on Wednesday, but wasn’t even a speed bump two nights later.
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