“We know how Jimmy is in these moments, and the world has seen what Jimmy Butler is capable of and he just played tremendous for us. “I wasn’t surprised,” said Miami rookie Tyler Herro, who chipped in 17 points in Sunday’s Game 3 win. Just put his imprint on every important part of the game.” “This was a very urgent game, and he was doing it on both ends of the court. “How else do you say it other than Jimmy effing Butler,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. According to game score, a statistic which accounts for everything a player does, it was the second-best NBA finals game by any player in the nearly four decades since complete box scores have been available. He also became the first player ever to finish with more points, rebounds and assists than LeBron in a finals game. But we’re not going to lay down, we’re going to fight back in this thing, even it up 2-2.”īutler scored or assisted on 73 of Miami’s 115 points, one off the NBA finals single-game record. I respect the guy for it, but this is a different time now, a different group of guys that I have around me, and we are here to win, we are here to compete. “I think LeBron has got the best of me way too many times. “That’s competition at its finest,” the 31-year-old Butler said.
Jimmy Butler straight up told LeBron "You're in trouble" /daBI9bV5OI- gifdsports October 5, 2020Īt the post-game Zoom press conference, Butler told reporters that James had said the same thing to him in the first quarter and that his parrying it back to the four-time MVP was a declaration of intent: that Miami are not just there to forestall the Laker coronation but to take a flamethrower to it.
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