Jimmy Butler waved goodbye to the stag home fans, showing a relaxed smile. At this moment, he has reached 1/4 of his playoff goal this year.
Before the play-off between the Eagles and the Heat started, Barkley said he was willing to bet 1 billion dollars on the heat to beat the Eagles at home. ESPN’s 17 experts are all optimistic that the Heat team will win easily.
Although the performance of the regular season was not good, the Heat team was the first in the East last season. In the face of a change of handsome at the end of the season, the Eagle who was eliminated by the heat in the first round of last season has no reason not to win, right?
As a result, the Heat made every fan drop by glasses. They once fell behind the eagle by 20 points in the first half. In the second half, they caught up and couldn’t fill in the 20-point pit. They were forced to play the second game with the bull, strive for an eighth seat in the east. In the last 4 minutes of the play-off match with the bull, the bull still led 90-87. If it wasn’t Butler’s sudden efforts, he led the team to a 15-1 climax, and the Heat almost capsized in the gutter again at home.
Although I got the last playoff ticket, the team played like this. How can hot fans expect the playoffs? The bad performance of the regular season has already played preventive injection for the fans. From the hope of winning the sixth direct play in the east to losing basketable nets at home, they have fallen into the play area step by step. Every Heat fan knows where the team’s problems are today.
Last season, the Heat team was the team with the first three-point shooting rate in the league, and the third-point shooting rate of the Heat this season was the fourth lowest in the league. Butler and Adebayor are not good at projection stars. After the team’s collective projection ability degrades, the team’s space becomes worse and worse. The Attack of the Heat team is like a blunt knife, which does not hurt the enemy at all.
Among the top 19 teams in the league this season, only the Heat team goal difference points per hundred rounds, and other teams are positive. In the critical moment of 5 points difference in the last 5 minutes defined by NBA official website, the Heat team played 54 games, the second in the league. The record at the critical moment of 32 wins and 22 losses seems to be good, and it is not a matter to be reliable to Butler for many times when the savior is at the critical moment. How could a really strong team be dragged into the critical moment so many times, right?
The overall size of the Heat squad is insufficient, the backboard suffers losses, the three points are poor, and the pair can grab the backboard, big deer? ESPN organized 18 experts to vote before the game, and no one was optimistic about the promotion of the heat.
The heat seems to have only Butler’s advantage. But in the Eastern first round series two years ago, the Heat team was swept 4-0 Bucks team. Butler averaged 14.5 points in that round of the series, field goal percentage 29.7%, three-point hit rate 26.7%, plus or minus value-21.5. It can be said to be Butler’s most popular series in his career.
Butler is good at attacking frames? The stag has the league’s best framers Lopes and brother alphabet. The regular season stag lowered the shooting rate of the opponent’s basket by 2.9% compared with the expected shooting rate, which is second only to the grizzly bear in the whole league.
Force Butler to shoot more shots to solve the team attack? Butler hit 35% in three points in the regular season, with only 1.6 shots per game; In the middle distance, he only shot 2.65 times per game. If Butler, who has held the basket and shot less than five times outside the field-average penalty area, how can he beat the stag?
In addition to the Heat team, even the most optimistic Heat fans dare not expect to create miracles before this round of Series starts. As long as they can win one or two games, they will be satisfied.
In the first three games, the Heat team gained a outscore advantage of 2-1. But everyone knows that this has a great relationship with brother Alphabet’s injury in the first quarter of the first battle. At the same time, the three points of the Heat are the same as those of the opening, with the hit rate as high as 50%. The effective shooting percentage is 14.6 percent higher than expected. The basketable nets with the highest hit rate in the regular season is only 5.45%.
The team with the best three points among the 16 teams in the playoffs became Miami warriors in three games? Duncan Robinson, who hit 32.8 percent in the regular season three points, was in danger after his palm was broken in the first battle of Croal. He threw three points out of 13 shots and 10 shots in three matches? Is this reasonable? Is this science? Bucks team felt evil and dared not neglect any more. Finally, he decided to let brother alphabet return in the fourth scene.
Although brother Alphabet fell to his back in the first scene, he did not have structural damage after X-ray examination. That is to say, the injury is not that serious. Perhaps in the eyes of the Bucks, the heat is not an opponent worthy of their special attention. In the regular season, the only time the letter elder brother was healthy, and there was no rotation break. The Letter elder brother cut 35 points, 15 boards and 11 aids in the 13th vote, leading the Bucks to easily beat the heat.
Similar to the letter brother, Butler also fell into the ass in the third quarter of the third game, and did not play in the fourth quarter. But different from the letter brother, the stag had the capital to let the letter brother raise two games, while the Heat team could only rely on Butler. In the fourth game, Butler went into battle as usual.
However, there is a big gap between the strength of the two teams. Bucks team has a huge internal advantage. Lopes, who scored only 6 points in the last game, also rebounded strongly, cutting 36 points and 11 rebounds in the whole game; Brother alphabet lightly got three pairs at the beginning of the fourth quarter, he also broke the stag’s young pioneer team history playoff assists record by the way. There are still 6 minutes before the end of the game. The Bucks are 12 points ahead, and the game has already shown a one-sided situation.
Miracle happened at that moment. Who would have thought that Butler with bruising on his ass could become harder after the first three sessions were 30+6 plus the three-point goal of 9 Middle 6? He made 2+1 on Middleton, then Lowry snatched holerdi, and the Heat scored fast attack. In a few minutes, the Bucks kept making mistakes, while the Heat hit a climax of 13-0 to reverse the score. The silent stadium suddenly boiled and noisy, and the moment of Butler came.
After dunk got his 53rd point, Butler shouted excitedly at the Heat fans: This is my shit! Butler played at 8 minutes 11 seconds from the end of the fourth quarter, when the heat was 11 points behind. Then Butler scored 21 points alone, and the stag team only scored 16 points during this period. I will support the building on my own, but this is the case.
119-114, the Heat won at home and changed the total score to 3-1. Butler scored double in the first and last quarter, and scored double in the NBA playoff history. With 56 points and 9 rebounds in 19 out of 28 single shots, the highest score in a single playoff game in the history of the Heat team is also the fourth highest score in a single game in NBA history playoff. Butler scored 47 percent of the heat in the game, with a hit rate of 68 percent and 33 percent of the other main players.
The well-informed Miller sighed in his commentary: “This is the greatest performance of the Heat players in the playoffs.” The fans who watched this game, who can’t shout a word “hard?
Before going to Milwaukee to play G5, Butler said: “Our goal is still to win the championship. I don’t care what others think of our team or what they say. Many people don’t think we can win the championship, I just want to prove it to them. I don’t care what the start looks like. Everything talks with results. I like the high-intensity competition like the playoffs. This is the stage for all the best players to show their abilities. I am not saying that I am one of the best players. I just want others to see me like this.”
Butler is not a player with too many words, and he will not market for himself. He doesn’t like all-star weekends with full show, nor does he like fancy and flashy actions. In his basketball dictionary, there are only two big characters for win. He once said in an interview at the end of the regular season: “Of course I can also get high scores, but this is not my mode of play.”
In order to win, Butler can do all the small things that blue-collar players will do. Drop the ground to save the ball, destroy the pass, actively card, and defend the opposite core player. In order to save physical strength and neglect defense for your own attack? Butler would never do this. When the team needs him to do something, Butler will give everything he has, put what you think he is not good at on the court, and let everyone startle his chin.
The only person who can surpass Butler’s performance of 56 points and 9 rebounds is himself. He may not have the personal honor of superstars such as Jordan, magician, Russell and Duncan, but he has the same competition temperament as these top superstars in history. What is competition temperament? The more exciting the big stage is, the more critical the competition is, the more critical the performance is, and the stronger the spiritual will is when it is strong.
Strong deer? The first time in the alliance is not to recharge. Brother alphabet is the second consecutive MVP, one of the three candidates for this year’s MVP; Lopes is the second highest player in the best defensive player; Hollerdi is this year’s All-Star and the most underestimated player in the players’ vote; substitute riportis is one of the three candidates for the best sixth man, and Claude was the main force of the league’s first sun last season. Such a lineup, from talent to strength, is rolling the heat.
Maybe the more such a team is, the more it can tease Butler’s fighting spirit. From childhood to adulthood, he had never been looked upon by anyone. Even his mother had abandoned himself and forced him to stay at the high school coach’s home. From Marquette University to entering NBA, every team positioned him as a blue-collar rather than a star at the beginning. Even if he broke the question again and again, he was repeatedly neglected.
Butler may have asked himself countless times, why can’t it be me? Why do Timberwolves think Downs is the core of the team? 76 people in Philadelphia thought Ben Simmons was stronger. These young masters have been favored since they were born, and what about me? How can I prove myself? I want to go to a team that belongs to me. This team does not need many talented players. They only need to work hard and accept my leadership as I do.
I want to tell the world: you can underestimate us at the beginning, but I promise you, you will regret it.
The fifth match with the stag was almost a replica of the fourth match. The first three bucks led 102-86, firmly controlling the advantage of the game, and even once had 34-14 free throws (28 more free throws than the heat). Is the series going back to Miami? Butler didn’t agree, nor did other players in the heat. Under the leadership of a lion, every player will become the most heroic soldier, even if seven of them are off the draft.
Loafers, the veteran who was abandoned by the Knight, made five of the three-point 11 shots today, which became the key to the team’s outside breakthrough; The show Vincent made up to 23 shots in the game, second only to Butler, no team will give such a player who plays a substitute most of the time so much football rights, right? But it was he who invested the last and most critical three points.
In the overtime match, facing the situation where the three were sent off, Zeller, who had no interest in this season, ate the bread fed by Butler; Adebayor, who was sprayed and was about to retire, in fact, he had been fighting with his hamstring injury all the time. In the fourth quarter of the game, he defended the letter brother like Harrell, blocking the impact of the letter brother again and again.
Of course, Butler had to do the most important thing himself. In the last 2.1 seconds of the regular time of the match, Butler finished the empty connection kill on the court, dragging the match into the plus time. The Bucks in overtime lost their momentum completely. They couldn’t believe everything in front of them. The opponent opposite was not strong! How can a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people fall behind by more than 15 points in the fourth quarter of two consecutive games with such high morale?
The series is not only a competition of football skills, but also a competition of psychology and willpower. You don’t think the squad of the heat is as good as the stag, but under Butler’s leadership, the Heat team is more brave in the Vietnam War and all the people are soldiers. The team with the third-point hit rate in the league in the regular season made the first third-point hit rate (45%) for 16 teams in the playoffs.
As for Butler himself, the last 56 points 9 boards, Today 42 points 8 boards 4 help. This series of games averaged 37.6 points, 6 rebounds and 4.8 assists, with a hit rate of% and a three-point hit rate of%.
Before today’s kill ball, Butler and Sibo said that hollerdi would be blocked and could not catch up with himself. Then he could finish a kill. However, the Heat fans will only feel that today’s killing is very familiar, because the heat in the regular season also uses similar tactics to kill rockets.
The strongest tough, the most cunning Stadium sense of smell and the most calm brain were combined by him without being greasy, so that Butler, who can do everything on the court today, was born.
This is a series where you can’t find the right adjectives, and this is Butler who makes you blow to the poor words.
The Heat team has completed a miracle in NBA history, but under Butler’s leadership, who said they could not go further?
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