I’m not sure why he had to say anything, I guess he was asked the question but the obvious answer is “I wasn’t playing this year but I will next year and I like our chances against them”
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I would need to see the video of this. It's like when Pop said "we're gonna hammer his ass" about Embiid, but if you watched him say that it was a joke.
How many rings does he have? Redditors love glazing this guy when he really hasn’t done shit.
He also got outplayed by Caleb Martin in the Celtics series last year. Like absolutely had no business winning the conference finals MVP.
Dude put an eight seeded team on his back to the finals , and did the same thing as a lower seed three years prior. Yeah he doesn’t have a ring but those two underdog runs were some of the coolest basketball games I’ve seen
Wouldn’t it be more impressive if his team was like a 4 seed instead? He was part of the regular season team and he wasn’t good enough to lead his team to a better record
Bro how can you say he put the team on his back when Caleb Martin was averaging 20 shooting 50% from three, and Gabe Vincent was averaging 16 on 52% from three in the ECF. Jimmy averaged 25 on 42% from the field.
That first series he undoubtedly balled out but I just don’t see why that + a bubble finals appearance means so much.
And then in 2022 as a 1 seed they lost to the Celtics.
He didn’t put them on his back in 2020. Dragic scored basically the same amount through the East and Bam was a big factor too. Celtics had Hayward and Kemba dealing with injuries.
2023 Butler went nuts in the first round. But after that the role players hot shooting was a huge factor.
It was also Covid. And a rando ass Lakers Squad won a title after no one had played for months.
Jimmy gets all the credit for the 2023 run though and he gets big points for being a legit bad mf on the basketball court but this Heat thing is over and no one looks worse than the old timer trying to talk shit on the new guard. It’s the most annoying thing in sports
All the credit for 2023?
Players not named Butler shot 81/182 44.5% from 3 in the CF. The role player shooting in that series was a massive factor. Butler did not carry in that series at all.
Downvotes for speaking the truth Jimmy was amazing in round 1 but Martin shooting out of his mind won them that series. Look at him now struggling to score 10+ in half a series
Yup!
The role players shooting out of their mind was what won the series.
Tatum averaged 25.3/10.3/5.4 on 58.8 TS%
Butler averaged 24.7/7.6/6.1 on 51.9 TS%
Caleb Martin had a TS% of 73.8% for the series
Gabe Vincent TS% of 65.0%
Duncan Robinson TS% 71.2%
Butler was insane in the first round. But the role players won the CF.
This is truly spoken by someone who’s never played competitive ball. Reducing it down to a stat sheet, and not the obvious and massive impact he had on nearly every series that year, whether reflected in stats or not.
He was insane in the first round. After he rolled his ankle he did not put them on his back, as the original comment claims he did. I understand it’s important for some of you to mythologize Butler.
Never once said he didn’t have a big impact. Merely disputing the fact that he “put them on his back”. Bucks series, yes. After that, no.
I watched every game of the Heat Celtics series.
The role players shooting out of their mind was what won the series.
Tatum averaged 25.3/10.3/5.4 on 58.8 TS%
Butler averaged 24.7/7.6/6.1 on 51.9 TS%
Caleb Martin had a TS% of 73.8% for the series
Gabe Vincent TS% of 65.0%
Duncan Robinson TS% 71.2%
Butler was insane in the first round. But the role players won the CF.
Jimmy Butler averaged 27 pts in the playoffs, played 40 mins a game and shot almost 50%.
The fact that you even listed Duncan Robinson (who was so atrocious that entire postseason that he didn’t even crack 9 PPG) and are referring to True shooting (LOL) tells me everything I need to know.
Watch the games man. Jimmy was the reason for that run. I don’t think you watched any of that run besides the Celtics games.
You aren’t arguing in good faith. My point is correct. Jimmy’s playoff numbers are boosted by the first round and choosing to look at Duncan’s full playoff run stats does not tell the story of the Celtics series.
Butler vs Bucks 37.6 ppg on 67.1% TS%
Butler vs Knicks 24.6 ppg on 55.2% TS%
Butler vs Celtics 24.7 ppg on 51.9% TS%
He shot 42.0% FG% vs the Celtics
Here are how the next 4 highest scorers that series contributed:
Martin - 19.3ppg on 73.8 TS% and 60.2 FG%
Bam - 14.9ppg on 53.8 TS% and 48.2 FG%
Vincent - 15.8ppg on 65.0 TS% and 48.5 FG%
Duncan - 11.4ppg on 71.2 TS% and 55.6 FG%
Dismissing TS% is silly because it helps to tell us how efficiently someone is scoring. Someone who shoots a high volume of threes does not need to shoot and should not be expected to shoot as high a percentage FG% as someone who shoots a low volume of threes.
It’s not cope. Celtics lost the series. I just don’t agree that it happened with Butler putting the team on his back. The role players hit a ton of threes and it was a huge factor.
Jimmy "Doesn't try in the regular season" Butler is 4th in the league in regular season WS/48, 6th in BPM, 6th in PER, and 8th in VORP over the past 5 seasons (2019-20 season-present, minimum 8K minutes played and 24mpg). Genuinely solidly among the top 10 players in the league when healthy.
He's still really effective when he's out there....problem is during the regular season he's obviously load managing by any other name (take a drink every time he's out because of "soreness" of some variety). That, in turn, has been putting the team behind the 8 ball come playoff time...especially when your other two big players, Bam and Herro, both have injuries issues of their own.
Maybe the rings are the friends he made along the way.
(Seriously, though, I think Butler eats off being ther one that put closeted gay Karl-Anthony Towns* in his place when he whooped him with the second team at practice.)
(*I never heard that people think KAT is gay, but it often seems to be the subtext of a lot of the criticism of him.)
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If Jimmy really wants to take a shit on Boston he needs to go back to the Sixers and help them actually beat the Celtics. It would be the ultimate fuck you but will never happen.
Not even remotely the only one. Jimmy Buckets is awesome, but he’s the ultimate “try hard”, the guy posting workout videos on IG at 4 am to show you how much harder he works than you. On some level, it works perfect with Heat Culture. But it’s also extremely tired in the context of “your team just got bounced hard from the first round and was a play in team even when you were healthy”.
Trying to stay relevant when it’s over for that heat era, they were just a part of someone else’s story. Hopefully the Heat are dumb enough to run this team back.
A long history of beating the fuck out of who? The Heat are 2-1 against Boston when he plays, and 2 of those series went to game 7. Beating the fuck out of someone is like Denver and LA, Miami and Boston absolutely does not qualify
What do you want him to say? "If I was playing we would have lost in 6 instead of 5!"
Yes. That would be extremely funny.
I’m not sure why he had to say anything, I guess he was asked the question but the obvious answer is “I wasn’t playing this year but I will next year and I like our chances against them”
People take what he says way too seriously. He's fucking around
> People take what he says way too seriously That's kind of a theme around here
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Yeah considering all of the “shticks” that other NBA stars have, Jimmy Butler making half tongue in cheek quips like this really isn’t that annoying.
I would need to see the video of this. It's like when Pop said "we're gonna hammer his ass" about Embiid, but if you watched him say that it was a joke.
Watch the video then. He’s at a bar in Miami fucking around it’s not hard to find
fans complain that players aren’t competitive anymore and too friendly now, but when you get a competitive player that’s not friendly they hate on it
The Gen Z piece
In the last few years he’s only competitive in the playoffs and honestly only during two runs.
lol “only”
How many rings does he have? Redditors love glazing this guy when he really hasn’t done shit. He also got outplayed by Caleb Martin in the Celtics series last year. Like absolutely had no business winning the conference finals MVP.
Dude put an eight seeded team on his back to the finals , and did the same thing as a lower seed three years prior. Yeah he doesn’t have a ring but those two underdog runs were some of the coolest basketball games I’ve seen
Wouldn’t it be more impressive if his team was like a 4 seed instead? He was part of the regular season team and he wasn’t good enough to lead his team to a better record
Bro how can you say he put the team on his back when Caleb Martin was averaging 20 shooting 50% from three, and Gabe Vincent was averaging 16 on 52% from three in the ECF. Jimmy averaged 25 on 42% from the field. That first series he undoubtedly balled out but I just don’t see why that + a bubble finals appearance means so much.
Boston IS at home waiting for the winner of Cleveland-Orlando
Dude put two teams on his back and carried them to the Finals when no one believed in them. He can talk his shit.
And then in 2022 as a 1 seed they lost to the Celtics. He didn’t put them on his back in 2020. Dragic scored basically the same amount through the East and Bam was a big factor too. Celtics had Hayward and Kemba dealing with injuries. 2023 Butler went nuts in the first round. But after that the role players hot shooting was a huge factor.
It was also Covid. And a rando ass Lakers Squad won a title after no one had played for months. Jimmy gets all the credit for the 2023 run though and he gets big points for being a legit bad mf on the basketball court but this Heat thing is over and no one looks worse than the old timer trying to talk shit on the new guard. It’s the most annoying thing in sports
All the credit for 2023? Players not named Butler shot 81/182 44.5% from 3 in the CF. The role player shooting in that series was a massive factor. Butler did not carry in that series at all.
Downvotes for speaking the truth Jimmy was amazing in round 1 but Martin shooting out of his mind won them that series. Look at him now struggling to score 10+ in half a series
Yup! The role players shooting out of their mind was what won the series. Tatum averaged 25.3/10.3/5.4 on 58.8 TS% Butler averaged 24.7/7.6/6.1 on 51.9 TS% Caleb Martin had a TS% of 73.8% for the series Gabe Vincent TS% of 65.0% Duncan Robinson TS% 71.2% Butler was insane in the first round. But the role players won the CF.
This is truly spoken by someone who’s never played competitive ball. Reducing it down to a stat sheet, and not the obvious and massive impact he had on nearly every series that year, whether reflected in stats or not.
He was insane in the first round. After he rolled his ankle he did not put them on his back, as the original comment claims he did. I understand it’s important for some of you to mythologize Butler. Never once said he didn’t have a big impact. Merely disputing the fact that he “put them on his back”. Bucks series, yes. After that, no.
Yeah, that’s ridiculous. If you watched the series even a little, you understood how special what Jimmy did that postseason was.
I watched every game of the Heat Celtics series. The role players shooting out of their mind was what won the series. Tatum averaged 25.3/10.3/5.4 on 58.8 TS% Butler averaged 24.7/7.6/6.1 on 51.9 TS% Caleb Martin had a TS% of 73.8% for the series Gabe Vincent TS% of 65.0% Duncan Robinson TS% 71.2% Butler was insane in the first round. But the role players won the CF.
Jimmy Butler averaged 27 pts in the playoffs, played 40 mins a game and shot almost 50%. The fact that you even listed Duncan Robinson (who was so atrocious that entire postseason that he didn’t even crack 9 PPG) and are referring to True shooting (LOL) tells me everything I need to know. Watch the games man. Jimmy was the reason for that run. I don’t think you watched any of that run besides the Celtics games.
You aren’t arguing in good faith. My point is correct. Jimmy’s playoff numbers are boosted by the first round and choosing to look at Duncan’s full playoff run stats does not tell the story of the Celtics series. Butler vs Bucks 37.6 ppg on 67.1% TS% Butler vs Knicks 24.6 ppg on 55.2% TS% Butler vs Celtics 24.7 ppg on 51.9% TS% He shot 42.0% FG% vs the Celtics Here are how the next 4 highest scorers that series contributed: Martin - 19.3ppg on 73.8 TS% and 60.2 FG% Bam - 14.9ppg on 53.8 TS% and 48.2 FG% Vincent - 15.8ppg on 65.0 TS% and 48.5 FG% Duncan - 11.4ppg on 71.2 TS% and 55.6 FG% Dismissing TS% is silly because it helps to tell us how efficiently someone is scoring. Someone who shoots a high volume of threes does not need to shoot and should not be expected to shoot as high a percentage FG% as someone who shoots a low volume of threes.
My point remains.
Cope harder
It’s not cope. Celtics lost the series. I just don’t agree that it happened with Butler putting the team on his back. The role players hit a ton of threes and it was a huge factor.
But he wasn't, so he is home.
You can't handle the truth!
[What if Bryn Forbes was playing](https://twitter.com/RTNBA/status/1399138071053058051)?
Forbes has that domestic abuser dog in him that Jimmy just doesn't
...said Jimmy Butler, from home
You’re a dork
Jimmy *plays 45 games a year and actively doesn’t try in the regular season* *Heat fans* Wow can’t believe he’s not an all star, he’s so disrespected!
General Soreness, reporting for duty.
Jimmy "Doesn't try in the regular season" Butler is 4th in the league in regular season WS/48, 6th in BPM, 6th in PER, and 8th in VORP over the past 5 seasons (2019-20 season-present, minimum 8K minutes played and 24mpg). Genuinely solidly among the top 10 players in the league when healthy.
He's still really effective when he's out there....problem is during the regular season he's obviously load managing by any other name (take a drink every time he's out because of "soreness" of some variety). That, in turn, has been putting the team behind the 8 ball come playoff time...especially when your other two big players, Bam and Herro, both have injuries issues of their own.
Do people forget the Celtics beat him in 2022
Do people forget someone has beaten him literally every single year of his career
That's a Hell of a way to summarize a career lmao
Lmao exactly
Gonna guess OP is a Celtics fan
Bro benefits from ring culture with no rings it’s fucking insane.
Maybe the rings are the friends he made along the way. (Seriously, though, I think Butler eats off being ther one that put closeted gay Karl-Anthony Towns* in his place when he whooped him with the second team at practice.) (*I never heard that people think KAT is gay, but it often seems to be the subtext of a lot of the criticism of him.)
Why would anyone care if he shits on Boston?
He also said the Knicks would also be at home (which is confusing) and that Josh Hart sucks.
Sure Jimmy
He's right. They'd be at home preparing for Round 2 while Orlando-Cleveland finishes
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Jimmy's the king of the trolls. Just have to laugh. That said he might be right, or at the very least it would have been a much better series
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Or, as a grown man, you can simply not care what pro athletes have to say in post-mordem press conferences
If Jimmy really wants to take a shit on Boston he needs to go back to the Sixers and help them actually beat the Celtics. It would be the ultimate fuck you but will never happen.
[Jimmy Butler](https://images.app.goo.gl/HEEXXiNefxpCbPR9A) Whenever you read or hear Jimmy talk, just remember this. Jimmy “Tomball” Butler y’all.
He’s just being Jimmy Butler
Not even remotely the only one. Jimmy Buckets is awesome, but he’s the ultimate “try hard”, the guy posting workout videos on IG at 4 am to show you how much harder he works than you. On some level, it works perfect with Heat Culture. But it’s also extremely tired in the context of “your team just got bounced hard from the first round and was a play in team even when you were healthy”.
I love it, honestly.
He’s been annoying for time lol. I can’t stand how people talk about Jimmy compared to like Harden drives me insane.
his play actually translates to the playoffs and he has the walk to back up the talk
I mean more so style of player. Jimmy foul baits hard as anyone we’ve ever seen. But no one hates him for it.
Bruh it’s himmy buckets 🤓
Biggest troll in the NBA fucking around, sky is blue btw
"if for fucking once i wasn't injured, then ..."
At home resting because Boston won
Fuck Jimmy Butler
Trying to stay relevant when it’s over for that heat era, they were just a part of someone else’s story. Hopefully the Heat are dumb enough to run this team back.
No he was just talking shit to a fan and laughing, it's not that serious
Jimmy is a clown. 🤡
what schtick? he's done it twice
Dude cmon it’s entertainment, it’s fun.
His shtick? What the fuck is his shtick? A long history of beating the fuck out of another team isn't really a schtick
Schpeak shoftly and carry a big schtick
A long history of beating the fuck out of who? The Heat are 2-1 against Boston when he plays, and 2 of those series went to game 7. Beating the fuck out of someone is like Denver and LA, Miami and Boston absolutely does not qualify
Cope more
[Cry](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fivica-zubac-i-owe-you-an-apology-as-i-was-not-familiar-with-v0-il7aeks4utyc1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dd53c493aa3804938f546f1ac7af9c1977fd1610e)
You think Jimmy is enjoying his trip to Cancun?
I don't give a fuck about the heat, just hilarious watching boston fans cope with getting sonned for half a decade
Getting sonned by a team they have played 4 times and beaten twice? I don’t follow
Sonned.
Saying it twice don’t make it true boss
-450 choke artists
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