May 31, 2022 • 18 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon break down the Jimmy Butler shot in the Eastern Conference Finals and what the Mavericks need to do moving forward to help Luka!
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forward to hearing from him, because you know, we found
this weekend Tommy Fam quit the league that he was
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you know, manipulating the I R Spot and fantasy and
that's got him upset and that's why he's lapped him
before a game. Oh yeah, he's a big time player
in Vegas. High stakes guy. We could do it, you know,
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telling all about his prowess, uh, in his martial arts training,
all of those things. I think it's one of those
great stories and it sinks up beautifully with the end
of all the preliminaries in the depth and heard case
because uh, Tommy fam could start in the sequel or
remake of cry Baby Shut the hell up with that
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being what we found out this weekend. Locking for has
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coming up in a bit that's just outstanding. Uh so again,
so we have that coming up in a bit. Plus
you know he's got more in Aaron Donald too. And
uh but as we get set for this week in
the NBA, Game one of the NBA Finals is two
weeks from Thursday, so there's gonna be some time off.
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It feels like, I know right. Game one is Thursday.
Game two is the following Sunday. It's insane how this
is how they dragged this out? Um but uh coming
off of last night's game the Celtics and the heat.
The big question actually two questions, but the biggest one
is should Jimmy Butler have taken that three with less
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than twenty seconds left to go the heat part of
a furious comeback, get the ball, and Jimmy Butler has
a chance to maybe go to the hoop to maybe
get something and tie the game. And instead Jimmy Butler
picked this seconds go m the three off the front
of the rim. It gets knocked away. They got a
fell Smart and they do Heat Radio Network on the call,
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Marcus Smart and the Celtics made their free throws. They
win Game seven. He tried to give that game away
down the stretch. Yeah, well they didn't look listen like
like I'm smart taking a lot of ill advised shots,
a lot of time on shot clocks. Look at they're going.
I tweeted something. I was like, which team are you
referring to? Like that's the beauty of the tweet. You
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could be pissed at any one of these possessions. Hey,
like I said last week, this this this series is
proceeding without logic. None of it makes sense. Right. But
the Celtics win and they go to the NBA Finals
and Jimmy Butler was asked about taking a three. Was
that the right call? And after the game he defended
his shot selection. Okay, uh, there's been there wasn't a
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lot of posturing there just uh, and there's been debate.
Was it the right call? Was it not? And I
understand everybody for what they're saying why they thought it
was the right call. It's Jimmy Butler. Yes, he's the
guy you want to take the shot. Yes, he had
the ball on the open floor, Yes he had a
good look. Yes, all of these things are true. All
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of these things are true. Despite that, that was the
wrong choice, right. And and this is the Celtics. I'm
sure we're doing backflips when they saw him pull up
to take that three. You know why, because Jimmy Butler
does doesn't make threes. He doesn't shoot threes. That's not
who he is. That's not his game. And for the
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average NBA fan that doesn't, you know, see things all
the way through, they probably think, Okay, well here's Jimmy Butler,
and he and he and he takes a three. Yeah
he's their best player. Yeah, I see it. Jimmy Butler doesn't.
That's not part of his game, all right. Jimmy Butler
takes a makes about one three a game for his career.
Jimmy Butler makes less than one three pointer a game.
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The last three years, he has averaged half a three
pointer a game and he's taking about three per game.
That's Jimmy Butler. Okay, he's not someone that's gonna light
it up from the outside. He's not Tyler Hero, he's
not Steph Curry. He's not someone that takes threes. It's
just not a part of his game. And he's about
twenty five cent from three point range in the last
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three years. So think about all that for a second,
of Jimmy Butler and all the things he could have done.
He could have tried to to the hoop, which he
might have been able to getting around Al Horford. He
might barely get there and get contact and hit free throws,
right because because he's a pretty good free throw shooter.
He's seven for his career, right, that's pretty bleep and good. Uh,
he could try to get to the hoop, draw double team,
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find somebody for an easy basket. They have plenty of time, right,
there was eighteen seconds left. There was no need for that.
If he makes the three, they still got to come
back and play defense and d it up because the
Celtics can still hit a shot and win the game
if he makes it, too they still have to come
back and play defense because the Celtics can win the game.
So it didn't change what they did defensively at all.
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You decided to take the lowest percentage shot in your arsenal.
That's what Jimmy Butler did. The thing that was his,
that thing that he is the worst at offensively, he
decided to do. So how is how is that the
right call? Because he just gets caught up in hero ball? Right?
And that's what and that's something that every single head
coach in the NBA says, what can you do? Because
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everybody loves hero ball? Right, everybody loves to able to
make the jumper so they can see the video after
so they can make the jumper and they can turn
and they can make a face at their teammates. The
teammates can come hug them, the fans can go crazy,
and what a great, unbelievable moment. I don't get that
unbelievable moment. If I drive to the basket for a
layup that ties the game, right, I don't get that. Right.
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Lebron James is the king at this right, he could
get to the hoops so many times and make shots
to draw contact at the end of games. But instead, no, no,
I want to make the right basketball play, or I
want to hit a three instead of trying to get
to the hoop when on one on one, I'm just
gonna want to take that shot so I can back
up down court with my hand in the air. And
then it goes and I turn and I flex and
I mean mug at the camera. So many players get
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caught up in hero ball, and Jimmy Butler, it's just
what happened to him because he took the lowest the
play with the lowest percentage chance of completion, and that's
what he chose to try to do it when he
didn't have to if there were ten seconds left or
five seconds left, and hey, Jimmy Butler's got a choice.
I can win the game with a dagger when and
and the Celtics really have no chance a couple of
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seconds left, they need to make a shot to win,
or or I have to because I need a three
because we need a three to tie. Yeah, then I
get it in those situations. But he decided to go
down to play hero a ball, and that's what it is,
and that's why the heat went home, because he could
have gotten to the hoop, probably would have tied the game.
Maybe they go on to play in overtime. But that's
why that was the wrong call for him to take
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that three, because it's not what he does. Well, right,
I would you want Russell Westbrook coming down and taking
that shot? No? Right, And Russell Westbrook is actually a
little bit better three point wise than Jimmy Butler in
his career. You don't want Russell Westbrook doing that. Why
would you want you Butler doing it? You don't want
a guy that that's not what he does. Take in
that shot. If it was Damian Lillard, yes, it's what
he does. If it was Steph or Clay, yes, it's
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what they do. If it's Luca, yes, take that big step,
big step, back drop off, make that three. Yes. If
it's part of what you do, it's it's in your
arsenal do it. But it's not. The Celtics. When I
saw him pull up, probably said, oh, thank goodness, he's
taken to three. He's gonna cling this. Let's get the rebound.
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at ten pm Eastern seven pm Pacific, A long rebound
comes off. But in terms of percentages, I mean I
haven't built the algorithm. I haven't gone through the defensive
efficiencies of Al Horford and Jalen Brown, who had already
slipped into the lane away from his the man he
was defending towards the three point arc in the event
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that Butler was gonna drive. So I haven't been able
to compute exactly where the percentages relative to Butler's three
point proficiency. So my apologies for the UH the extra
math class that I need to go take UH and
review before I can come to that. But to that point,
he did was faced up one on one with Al Horford,
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who's playing well for them defensively, offensively, disappeared at times,
and then Jalen Brown in in the lane, as you said,
could have gotten a foul, might not have had an
open look, just did to take it. He's willed them
to a couple of wins. Did he play well the
entire series? No, But a guy that made big shots
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for them time and again and in this case had
an open look, decided to take the shot just front
ironed it. So I I can't fault him for it,
because I I'd be you know, getting people on board
my Jimmy Butler bandwagon and and working to sell them
big face coffee if if he'd hit it and they'd
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won the game, which they still wouldn't need a defensive
stop anyway. So that's a whole other thing there. There's
more to an NBA game in those final eighteen seventeen
seconds that that shot wasn't solving everything necessarily in that moment.
But I get your point right based on his history,
uh and not being the most prolific three point shooter
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of our time or any time. But I certainly I'll
defend him for his decision making in the moment because
it's easy to dismiss it after it clanks long. Like
I said, it's it's it's more for it, but it's
first guessing. It's not even first guessing. He's got the
first got a guy that he's got to drive past
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and then drive into another guy, and then trust one
of his other players is gonna make a shot. Well
maybe not. Maybe he's able to get to the rim,
and he gets to but you've just now added a
bunch of maybes. I got it open. I got I
got Jimmy Butler one on one with Al Horford. I'll
take Jimmy Butler going to the because that's how he
gets the majority of his baskets. I'll take Jimmy Butler
one on one against against Al Horford rather than standing
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up and trying to take a big guy. But you
know who decided they didn't like Jimmy Butler against Al Horford.
In the moment, Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Butler wanted to be
the hero. I he didn't see Al Horford and said, oh,
I can't go buy Al Horford. He said, oh, I
can hit the three and be the hero's hero. The
guy look hero was that he he got an open,
open shot. I mean here picking ahead like he was
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putting together a whole social media campaign and his he
was driving up to take. Why would you take a
shot that you don't take? What that you normally don't take?
You take about two or three threes per game, baby,
at sometimes you don't. So I'm gonna take it at
at the at the most clutch time possible. I'm gonna
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I'm the most clutch guy going. I'm Jimmy Bucket. It
doesn't matter, no matter what Jimmy Buckets has done, he's
not made threes. All the good clutch stuff he's done
throughout as great doesn't make threes. So now is my
time to do it. I got caught up in the moment.
I'm a hero. We're at home, it's game seven. I'm
gonna take a three one. I don't have to Oh yeah, okay,
I didn't go if he was better. He just hate
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Jimmy Bucket. Jimmy Bucket, Yes, exactly. I hate the shot
he took. When he took it, that's one of those
no no, no, no, no no no. An if it
goes in, you go, oh, what a great shot. Yes,
if any shot goes in, it goes from a bad
shot to being a great shot. But that's the first guess. Hey,
why did he do it? Yeah, I I I don't
know why when there were other so many other options available.
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I'm gonna choose the lowest scentage one and it's something
I don't do. That's something I don't do very often.
If he did it very often, then he and if
he was thirty from three point range, but he was
like you know, every game, he's like three for nine
or four for eleven. Okay, so only he makes a couple.
He takes a lot of them, Okay, but he doesn't.
He just doesn't take him. You know, he had the
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one outlier game. Two games go to his four out
of eight, It's like, whoa, and that's it. Every other
game has been what he's one out of four? One
out of four, that's the shot that's gonna do it? Uh,
that could have been something better. It could have been
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is shut as we get set for the NBA Finals,
which begin sometime the third week of August. We just
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watched two teams go home in the past few days,
the Mavericks and the Heat go home yesterday after losing
to the Celtics. So if I had to say to you,
would you rather be the Heat or the Mavericks trying
to get back to where they can get to the finals?
Since these were two of the final four team standing.
I know a lot of people would initially say, well,
you want to be the Mavericks because you have Luca, right,
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lucas phenomenal player, and the and the Heat don't have
a player quite like Luca. But I'm not going to
give you the Mavericks. Uh. And you know this is
not about Heat culture and Erik Spoelstra, although you have
to look, you've been able to do right. It should
be a big part of it though. But but this
is more of with the Mavericks, right, what has the
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biggest thing been the past few days. You gotta get
Luca help, right, Lucas gotta get help. Yeah, he does.
Like we said, Look, the roster is not very good
when you're relying on Jalen Brunson who could leave and
Spencer didn't. Wittie, these guys are not superstars right there not,
This is a bad roster. The fact that Luca carried
it as far as he did is a testament to him.
But you give said you gotta get help, gotta get
himlp got him help. But just like the Knicks have
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found out the last year, saying and knowing you gotta
get help and getting guys to sign in the dotted
line are two different things. Because are you gonna get
stars too want to come play with Luca? And the
answer is no, because Lucas like Kobe in which I
am a ball dominant. I take all the shots guy,
and I need enough people around me that can play
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in in their different roles. Right, No stars are gonna
come to play with Luca. Right. The closest they had
was was Kristops Porzingis, who came was gonna be the
one to Lucas one they were gonna dominate because Porzingis
was the big man, and what happened? They couldn't get along?
See see Chris stops good luck? Good luck in Washington?
Wait wait, wait what what? Yeah? Sorry didn't work out? Um,
who's gonna want to come play there? No star is
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gonna want to come play with Luca and say, yeah,
I want a team up there where I had to
sit here and be the second guy in the Luca
Dontet show. They're just not gonna do it right. You know,
there's too many options where I can go and have
a basketball life where I'm not just at the whim
of Luca Dontech, which is the genius of him because
he can do everything himself. But that's also the drawback
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to it is that that's kind of what he does.
Who is Dallas going to get other than role play years?
And when that's your case, you're just trying to find
the right chemistry or maybe one year you can make
a run to the finals. And if Luca gets to
one finals in his career, that's a big accomplishment because
you're not gonna build with star players around him. Is
DeAndre Ayton gonna want to go there? He's not happy
in Phoenix he's gonna be happy being a guy that
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doesn't even get the ball in Dallas. That's not gonna happen.
So how are they gonna get better? It's easy to say,
let's go get a guy, you go get help, But
who's gonna want to come play there with Luca? That's
the rub and that's why I would take the heat. Yeah,
I mean, I've even seen the specificity of Hayes. Zach
Levin wants out of Chicago allegedly, uh so why not
go get him? And then it's like, all right, so
what do you give up? What assets do you have?
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All Right, it's like any trade scenarios anybody wants to
do for the Lakers. All right, riddle me this, batman.
What are they sending away that's gonna make this work?
The report today Russell Westbrook's opted in on his Yeah,
opting in on his forty seven million dollar contract for
this year and nix act. You know, all all signs
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are that the team is on board with him coming back. Okay,
that's fine. Maybe at some point they'll they'll make a
trade and they'll get some bad contracts. But for Dallas
saying okay, yeah, we'll go get Zach Lavine, Fine, who's
the deal for? Oh, and you also have to decide
whether you want to resign Jalen Brunson for a mini
King's ransom while other teams are looking saying, hey, maybe
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he's a guy that in his own space can elevate
his game to be the guy that we saw sometimes
in the playoffs on a nightly basis. Maybe maybe not.
Maybe he's far more than a sixteen a night score.
But when we look at the squads, I mean, I
don't dismiss the the culture and glue factor. When we
look at pat Riley and Eric Spoelstra, is it enough
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to get over I don't know. I like Kyle Lowry
today saying it was a wasted year because they didn't
get to the finals. Good for him, Yeah, I completely
you know, I'll get a T shirt that has his
picture on there now. He got it out and he
was ineffective at times, and your question where what percentage
he's playing at? But once he's on the court, that's
the way it goes. But I like that answer. To
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the end of the season. It's not, Hey, we made
a run to the conference finals and lost. No, it's
a wasted year. But Dallas, Yeah, you got Luca a
lot of questions in your cash strap. The heat, they
seem to find guys that want to come in and work.
And as long as I've got a culture like that,
I got a puncher's chance to bring in the smaller
assets and build them into something bigger. Twitter at how
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which I mean debacle for them, but great for us because,
oh my god, has a story been insane. Uh. He's
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got some new info on that coming up, So looking
forward to hearing from him, because you know, we found
this weekend Tommy Fam quit the league that he was
in with Jack Peterson because he was upset that Peterson was,
you know, manipulating the I R Spot and fantasy and
that's got him upset and that's why he's lapped him
before a game. Oh yeah, he's a big time player
in Vegas. High stakes guy. We could do it, you know,
(01:07):
telling all about his prowess, uh, in his martial arts training,
all of those things. I think it's one of those
great stories and it sinks up beautifully with the end
of all the preliminaries in the depth and heard case
because uh, Tommy fam could start in the sequel or
remake of cry Baby Shut the hell up with that
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being what we found out this weekend. Locking for has
got some new stuff on this We're gonna get to
coming up in a bit that's just outstanding. Uh so again,
so we have that coming up in a bit. Plus
you know he's got more in Aaron Donald too. And
uh but as we get set for this week in
the NBA, Game one of the NBA Finals is two
weeks from Thursday, so there's gonna be some time off.
(01:54):
It feels like, I know right. Game one is Thursday.
Game two is the following Sunday. It's insane how this
is how they dragged this out? Um but uh coming
off of last night's game the Celtics and the heat.
The big question actually two questions, but the biggest one
is should Jimmy Butler have taken that three with less
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than twenty seconds left to go the heat part of
a furious comeback, get the ball, and Jimmy Butler has
a chance to maybe go to the hoop to maybe
get something and tie the game. And instead Jimmy Butler
picked this seconds go m the three off the front
of the rim. It gets knocked away. They got a
fell Smart and they do Heat Radio Network on the call,
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Marcus Smart and the Celtics made their free throws. They
win Game seven. He tried to give that game away
down the stretch. Yeah, well they didn't look listen like
like I'm smart taking a lot of ill advised shots,
a lot of time on shot clocks. Look at they're going.
I tweeted something. I was like, which team are you
referring to? Like that's the beauty of the tweet. You
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could be pissed at any one of these possessions. Hey,
like I said last week, this this this series is
proceeding without logic. None of it makes sense. Right. But
the Celtics win and they go to the NBA Finals
and Jimmy Butler was asked about taking a three. Was
that the right call? And after the game he defended
his shot selection. Okay, uh, there's been there wasn't a
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lot of posturing there just uh, and there's been debate.
Was it the right call? Was it not? And I
understand everybody for what they're saying why they thought it
was the right call. It's Jimmy Butler. Yes, he's the
guy you want to take the shot. Yes, he had
the ball on the open floor, Yes he had a
good look. Yes, all of these things are true. All
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of these things are true. Despite that, that was the
wrong choice, right. And and this is the Celtics. I'm
sure we're doing backflips when they saw him pull up
to take that three. You know why, because Jimmy Butler
does doesn't make threes. He doesn't shoot threes. That's not
who he is. That's not his game. And for the
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average NBA fan that doesn't, you know, see things all
the way through, they probably think, Okay, well here's Jimmy Butler,
and he and he and he takes a three. Yeah
he's their best player. Yeah, I see it. Jimmy Butler doesn't.
That's not part of his game, all right. Jimmy Butler
takes a makes about one three a game for his career.
Jimmy Butler makes less than one three pointer a game.
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The last three years, he has averaged half a three
pointer a game and he's taking about three per game.
That's Jimmy Butler. Okay, he's not someone that's gonna light
it up from the outside. He's not Tyler Hero, he's
not Steph Curry. He's not someone that takes threes. It's
just not a part of his game. And he's about
twenty five cent from three point range in the last
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three years. So think about all that for a second,
of Jimmy Butler and all the things he could have done.
He could have tried to to the hoop, which he
might have been able to getting around Al Horford. He
might barely get there and get contact and hit free throws,
right because because he's a pretty good free throw shooter.
He's seven for his career, right, that's pretty bleep and good. Uh,
he could try to get to the hoop, draw double team,
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find somebody for an easy basket. They have plenty of time, right,
there was eighteen seconds left. There was no need for that.
If he makes the three, they still got to come
back and play defense and d it up because the
Celtics can still hit a shot and win the game
if he makes it, too they still have to come
back and play defense because the Celtics can win the game.
So it didn't change what they did defensively at all.
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You decided to take the lowest percentage shot in your arsenal.
That's what Jimmy Butler did. The thing that was his,
that thing that he is the worst at offensively, he
decided to do. So how is how is that the
right call? Because he just gets caught up in hero ball? Right?
And that's what and that's something that every single head
coach in the NBA says, what can you do? Because
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everybody loves hero ball? Right, everybody loves to able to
make the jumper so they can see the video after
so they can make the jumper and they can turn
and they can make a face at their teammates. The
teammates can come hug them, the fans can go crazy,
and what a great, unbelievable moment. I don't get that
unbelievable moment. If I drive to the basket for a
layup that ties the game, right, I don't get that. Right.
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Lebron James is the king at this right, he could
get to the hoops so many times and make shots
to draw contact at the end of games. But instead, no, no,
I want to make the right basketball play, or I
want to hit a three instead of trying to get
to the hoop when on one on one, I'm just
gonna want to take that shot so I can back
up down court with my hand in the air. And
then it goes and I turn and I flex and
I mean mug at the camera. So many players get
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caught up in hero ball, and Jimmy Butler, it's just
what happened to him because he took the lowest the
play with the lowest percentage chance of completion, and that's
what he chose to try to do it when he
didn't have to if there were ten seconds left or
five seconds left, and hey, Jimmy Butler's got a choice.
I can win the game with a dagger when and
and the Celtics really have no chance a couple of
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seconds left, they need to make a shot to win,
or or I have to because I need a three
because we need a three to tie. Yeah, then I
get it in those situations. But he decided to go
down to play hero a ball, and that's what it is,
and that's why the heat went home, because he could
have gotten to the hoop, probably would have tied the game.
Maybe they go on to play in overtime. But that's
why that was the wrong call for him to take
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that three, because it's not what he does. Well, right,
I would you want Russell Westbrook coming down and taking
that shot? No? Right, And Russell Westbrook is actually a
little bit better three point wise than Jimmy Butler in
his career. You don't want Russell Westbrook doing that. Why
would you want you Butler doing it? You don't want
a guy that that's not what he does. Take in
that shot. If it was Damian Lillard, yes, it's what
he does. If it was Steph or Clay, yes, it's
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what they do. If it's Luca, yes, take that big step,
big step, back drop off, make that three. Yes. If
it's part of what you do, it's it's in your
arsenal do it. But it's not. The Celtics. When I
saw him pull up, probably said, oh, thank goodness, he's
taken to three. He's gonna cling this. Let's get the rebound.
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at ten pm Eastern seven pm Pacific, A long rebound
comes off. But in terms of percentages, I mean I
haven't built the algorithm. I haven't gone through the defensive
efficiencies of Al Horford and Jalen Brown, who had already
slipped into the lane away from his the man he
was defending towards the three point arc in the event
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that Butler was gonna drive. So I haven't been able
to compute exactly where the percentages relative to Butler's three
point proficiency. So my apologies for the UH the extra
math class that I need to go take UH and
review before I can come to that. But to that point,
he did was faced up one on one with Al Horford,
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who's playing well for them defensively, offensively, disappeared at times,
and then Jalen Brown in in the lane, as you said,
could have gotten a foul, might not have had an
open look, just did to take it. He's willed them
to a couple of wins. Did he play well the
entire series? No, But a guy that made big shots
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for them time and again and in this case had
an open look, decided to take the shot just front
ironed it. So I I can't fault him for it,
because I I'd be you know, getting people on board
my Jimmy Butler bandwagon and and working to sell them
big face coffee if if he'd hit it and they'd
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won the game, which they still wouldn't need a defensive
stop anyway. So that's a whole other thing there. There's
more to an NBA game in those final eighteen seventeen
seconds that that shot wasn't solving everything necessarily in that moment.
But I get your point right based on his history,
uh and not being the most prolific three point shooter
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of our time or any time. But I certainly I'll
defend him for his decision making in the moment because
it's easy to dismiss it after it clanks long. Like
I said, it's it's it's more for it, but it's
first guessing. It's not even first guessing. He's got the
first got a guy that he's got to drive past
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and then drive into another guy, and then trust one
of his other players is gonna make a shot. Well
maybe not. Maybe he's able to get to the rim,
and he gets to but you've just now added a
bunch of maybes. I got it open. I got I
got Jimmy Butler one on one with Al Horford. I'll
take Jimmy Butler going to the because that's how he
gets the majority of his baskets. I'll take Jimmy Butler
one on one against against Al Horford rather than standing
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up and trying to take a big guy. But you
know who decided they didn't like Jimmy Butler against Al Horford.
In the moment, Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Butler wanted to be
the hero. I he didn't see Al Horford and said, oh,
I can't go buy Al Horford. He said, oh, I
can hit the three and be the hero's hero. The
guy look hero was that he he got an open,
open shot. I mean here picking ahead like he was
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putting together a whole social media campaign and his he
was driving up to take. Why would you take a
shot that you don't take? What that you normally don't take?
You take about two or three threes per game, baby,
at sometimes you don't. So I'm gonna take it at
at the at the most clutch time possible. I'm gonna
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I'm the most clutch guy going. I'm Jimmy Bucket. It
doesn't matter, no matter what Jimmy Buckets has done, he's
not made threes. All the good clutch stuff he's done
throughout as great doesn't make threes. So now is my
time to do it. I got caught up in the moment.
I'm a hero. We're at home, it's game seven. I'm
gonna take a three one. I don't have to Oh yeah, okay,
I didn't go if he was better. He just hate
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Jimmy Bucket. Jimmy Bucket, Yes, exactly. I hate the shot
he took. When he took it, that's one of those
no no, no, no, no no no. An if it
goes in, you go, oh, what a great shot. Yes,
if any shot goes in, it goes from a bad
shot to being a great shot. But that's the first guess. Hey,
why did he do it? Yeah, I I I don't
know why when there were other so many other options available.
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I'm gonna choose the lowest scentage one and it's something
I don't do. That's something I don't do very often.
If he did it very often, then he and if
he was thirty from three point range, but he was
like you know, every game, he's like three for nine
or four for eleven. Okay, so only he makes a couple.
He takes a lot of them, Okay, but he doesn't.
He just doesn't take him. You know, he had the
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one outlier game. Two games go to his four out
of eight, It's like, whoa, and that's it. Every other
game has been what he's one out of four? One
out of four, that's the shot that's gonna do it? Uh,
that could have been something better. It could have been
something better, but he siding moment, trying to hit the
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which begin sometime the third week of August. We just
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watched two teams go home in the past few days,
the Mavericks and the Heat go home yesterday after losing
to the Celtics. So if I had to say to you,
would you rather be the Heat or the Mavericks trying
to get back to where they can get to the finals?
Since these were two of the final four team standing.
I know a lot of people would initially say, well,
you want to be the Mavericks because you have Luca, right,
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lucas phenomenal player, and the and the Heat don't have
a player quite like Luca. But I'm not going to
give you the Mavericks. Uh. And you know this is
not about Heat culture and Erik Spoelstra, although you have
to look, you've been able to do right. It should
be a big part of it though. But but this
is more of with the Mavericks, right, what has the
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biggest thing been the past few days. You gotta get
Luca help, right, Lucas gotta get help. Yeah, he does.
Like we said, Look, the roster is not very good
when you're relying on Jalen Brunson who could leave and
Spencer didn't. Wittie, these guys are not superstars right there not,
This is a bad roster. The fact that Luca carried
it as far as he did is a testament to him.
But you give said you gotta get help, gotta get
himlp got him help. But just like the Knicks have
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found out the last year, saying and knowing you gotta
get help and getting guys to sign in the dotted
line are two different things. Because are you gonna get
stars too want to come play with Luca? And the
answer is no, because Lucas like Kobe in which I
am a ball dominant. I take all the shots guy,
and I need enough people around me that can play
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in in their different roles. Right, No stars are gonna
come to play with Luca. Right. The closest they had
was was Kristops Porzingis, who came was gonna be the
one to Lucas one they were gonna dominate because Porzingis
was the big man, and what happened? They couldn't get along?
See see Chris stops good luck? Good luck in Washington?
Wait wait, wait what what? Yeah? Sorry didn't work out? Um,
who's gonna want to come play there? No star is
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gonna want to come play with Luca and say, yeah,
I want a team up there where I had to
sit here and be the second guy in the Luca
Dontet show. They're just not gonna do it right. You know,
there's too many options where I can go and have
a basketball life where I'm not just at the whim
of Luca Dontech, which is the genius of him because
he can do everything himself. But that's also the drawback
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to it is that that's kind of what he does.
Who is Dallas going to get other than role play years?
And when that's your case, you're just trying to find
the right chemistry or maybe one year you can make
a run to the finals. And if Luca gets to
one finals in his career, that's a big accomplishment because
you're not gonna build with star players around him. Is
DeAndre Ayton gonna want to go there? He's not happy
in Phoenix he's gonna be happy being a guy that
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doesn't even get the ball in Dallas. That's not gonna happen.
So how are they gonna get better? It's easy to say,
let's go get a guy, you go get help, But
who's gonna want to come play there with Luca? That's
the rub and that's why I would take the heat. Yeah,
I mean, I've even seen the specificity of Hayes. Zach
Levin wants out of Chicago allegedly, uh so why not
go get him? And then it's like, all right, so
what do you give up? What assets do you have?
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All Right, it's like any trade scenarios anybody wants to
do for the Lakers. All right, riddle me this, batman.
What are they sending away that's gonna make this work?
The report today Russell Westbrook's opted in on his Yeah,
opting in on his forty seven million dollar contract for
this year and nix act. You know, all all signs
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are that the team is on board with him coming back. Okay,
that's fine. Maybe at some point they'll they'll make a
trade and they'll get some bad contracts. But for Dallas
saying okay, yeah, we'll go get Zach Lavine, Fine, who's
the deal for? Oh, and you also have to decide
whether you want to resign Jalen Brunson for a mini
King's ransom while other teams are looking saying, hey, maybe
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he's a guy that in his own space can elevate
his game to be the guy that we saw sometimes
in the playoffs on a nightly basis. Maybe maybe not.
Maybe he's far more than a sixteen a night score.
But when we look at the squads, I mean, I
don't dismiss the the culture and glue factor. When we
look at pat Riley and Eric Spoelstra, is it enough
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to get over I don't know. I like Kyle Lowry
today saying it was a wasted year because they didn't
get to the finals. Good for him, Yeah, I completely
you know, I'll get a T shirt that has his
picture on there now. He got it out and he
was ineffective at times, and your question where what percentage
he's playing at? But once he's on the court, that's
the way it goes. But I like that answer. To
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the end of the season. It's not, Hey, we made
a run to the conference finals and lost. No, it's
a wasted year. But Dallas, Yeah, you got Luca a
lot of questions in your cash strap. The heat, they
seem to find guys that want to come in and work.
And as long as I've got a culture like that,
I got a puncher's chance to bring in the smaller
assets and build them into something bigger. Twitter at how
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