Unexpectedly, I really didn’t expect that the Miami Heat, which was the eighth in the East and reached the playoffs after the play-off, unexpectedly eliminated the Milwaukee Bucks, the first in the league, with a total score of 4-1, and created the miracle of “black eight! Of course, all players and coach teams have contributed, but the most important person is undoubtedly Jimmy Butler.
Black Eight, Jimmy broke out
Jimmy Butler, is it a superstar? Before the playoffs this year, you may have such questions, and many people may give negative answers.
The reason is simple: this is a traditional and old-fashioned player, which does not conform to the trend of modern basketball. He is not good at tossing, and his ability to organize and respond is flat. It is not a big core playing method at all. It seems that he is more suitable to be a two-head player in the rich. As for traffic, it cannot be compared with top stars such as James, Curry and Durant.
However, after the first round of the playoffs, Butler became “contemporary Jordan”! The reason is also very simple, because he almost led the hot fire “black eight” Stag by himself-the popular title of winning the championship led by brother alphabet.
Is “contemporary Jordan” a blow? Absolutely not! In this round of series, Butler played for 37.2 minutes and scored 37.6 points, surpassing Booker to become the first, with 6.0 rebounds 4.8 assists 1.8 steals 0.4 cap, and the three hit rates are 59.7/44.4/70.8% respectively!
35 points for G1, just appetizers. The 30 points of G3 can only be regarded as basic operations; G4, Butler played 41 minutes in the game, 28 shots of 19, 18 penalty baskets of 15, 3 shots of 8 three-point balls, amazing 56 points! What about G5? Play for 46 minutes, 17 in 33, 3 in 10 in 3, 5 in 9 in free throws, record 42points 8 rebounds 4 assists 2 steals 1 cap!
Butler’s Heat career has cut 40+8 times in the playoffs, surpassing Wade (7 times) and enjoying the first place in Young Pioneer Team history! In the last two playoff games, he scored 98 points in total, which was the seventh player in NBA history who scored at least 95 points in two consecutive playoff games. The top six were Jordan, Jerry West, elgin Baylor, Rick Barry, Durant, Chamberlain, second person in active service!
And the more critical it is, the harder Butler plays, the more trustworthy he is. In this round of series, he scored 10.5 points in the key moment (the score difference of the last five minutes is less than 5 points), with a hit rate of 50%, 40% by three points, and a free throw of, plus or minus +9.5.
Tough guy prequel: miserable childhood
Hard is always the label of Butler’s foothold in NBA. He is also considered to be the hardest man in the league, and this character comes from his unhappy childhood.
On September 14, 1989, Butler was born in a community called tonbar in Houston, Texas, USA. However, when he was less than one year old, he was mercilessly abandoned by his biological father and had to live with his mother. When he was 13 years old, Butler was rejected by his mother and was ugly, and he was directly kicked out!
Fortunately, homeless Jimmy met his little friend Leslie. Although Leslie’s parents had seven children, his mother made the decision to take Butler in and became the foster mother of the latter.
After growing up gradually, Butler’s academic performance was not good, and his basketball talent was not recognized. No D1 University was willing to invite him, but went to community University. Fortunately, Butler scored 18.1 points, 7.7 rebounds and 3.1 assists in the freshman season at Taylor Junior College, and finally won the favor of Marquette University in sophomore year, and hit the main force all the way from the substitute.
In 2011, the 22-year-old Butler took part in the talent show, which was a young and new show, so he was very nervous and anxious. His foster mother accompanied him until he learned that he was selected by the Bulls on the 30th in the first round, and the two people hugged each other tightly.
After signing the contract with bull for 4 years and 5.41 million dollars, Butler gave her first salary to her foster mother to repay her kindness, and later bought them a mansion and a car, he visited every holiday, and Leslie became one of Butler’s team members.
Contemporary Jordan, the hardest man
The suffering of the same year shaped Butler’s tough character. On the court, he was very difficult to get on. He was fearless and never gave up. For more than ten years, although he was not always able to succeed, he never spoke of failure. For example, the classic war in December 2015, jimmy led the bull to fight the hot fire. When he fought four Canadian battles, he finally lost 3 points and got 43 points.
Butler will also express his dissatisfaction bluntly to his teammates who lie flat and do not want to make progress. After he went to Timberwolves, he had a famous saying: “Who is the most talented player in the team? It’s Downs. Who is the player most favored by God? It’s Wikins. But who is the hardest player? It’s me! I worked very hard and gave all my training every day!”
After a brief walk of 76 people, Butler joined the Heat with a four-year top salary of 0.142 billion dollars in 2019. As a result, the team won the Eastern Championship in the first season and entered the finals! Unfortunately, although the G3 and G4 successively cut 40 + three pairs and 35 + three pairs, it became the second player in history who scored at least 150 points, 50 rebounds and 50 assists in a single finals, butler still lost to James and heavy eyebrows and missed the championship with a total score of 2-4.
Now Butler is making a comeback, and in the form of black eight. We don’t know if he can lead the Heat out of the East again, but back to the question at the beginning of the article: Is Jimmy Butler a superstar? Contemporary Jordan, how could it not be?
