Quentin Grimes reveals mindset behind career-best performance vs. Warriors
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PHILADELPHIA — Quentin Grimes did nearly everything in his power to earn his first win as a member of the Philadelphia 76ers. In their 126-119 victory over the Golden State Warriors, he led all players in scoring and got his team into the win column.
Grimes dropped 44 points on 18-24 shooting from the field, including 6-9 from deep. Had he done a better job from the foul line, where he went 2-8, he could have notched his first 50-piece. Instead, he settled for his first 40-piece and helped the Sixers snap a nine-game losing streak.
"Exactlywhat we told him to do before the game," Nick Nurse joked.
Grimes said he really started to feel his heater coming in the third quarter. Continuing his hot shooting after a 20-point half was the clear indicator that this game was different for him. It took just three quarters for Grimes to clear his previous career-high of 36.
"I feel like lasttime, the last game in New York, [I] didn’tcome out asaggressive as I should have and we letup the gasat the end," he said, referring to the Sixers’ 110-105 loss to the New York Knicks from this past Wednesday. "Butmostimportantly,just coming out here being aggressive,trying to help my team get a win."
Quentin Grimes sets new career high in 76ers’ win over Warriors
The 76ers improved to just 17 games below .500 with this win. They still have their sights set on a playoff berth and can use a win like this, which came against a red-hot Stephen Curry and Warriors team that regained momentum in the fourth quarter, to springboard themselves forward.
"It’s a bigconfidence boost," Grimes said. "It was a lot ofgames that wewereclose and that weshouldhavewon, so I feel like with this game, it was a game that we had to cometogethercollectively within the lasttwo,threeminutes of the game…We could have lost thatgameeasily but westucktogether,stayedtoughand that feelslike a game that we can buildon."
The 76ers certainly earned this win through proper execution in crunch time but the massive disparity in three-point percentage — they shot 57.6 percent from deep while Golden State shot just 28.6 percent — suggests they got pretty lucky. Tyrese Maxey shot 2-14 as a finger injury dogged him for a second straight game. Philly has a lot to figure out as it heads into the final full month of the NBA regular season. But it can also breathe for a second and enjoy its victory against a good (yet shorthanded) Dubs team.
Quentin Grimes has played in plenty of tough-minded situations throughout his basketball career. The 76ers’ treacherous quest to earn a postseason bid will require the team to dig deep and play its best basketball. Through one of the newcomers, the Sixers just got an excellent example to build off of.
"Hewas on onetonight," Nurse said. "It’s pretty cool to see."
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