FIRST TAKE | Nobody want to see Miami Heat in the playoffs – Stephen A. all in on Jimmy Butler

FIRST TAKE | Nobody want to see Miami Heat in the playoffs – Stephen A. all in on Jimmy Butler

Jimmy buckets was recently spotted horsing around literally I know you like that the heat guard D cowboy hat rode a horse through the streets of Miami reasons so far are unknown Miami H Jo LM and butlers yeah Cowboy Carter former team the 76ers tonight Philly just one

And a half games back of Miami for the six seed in the standings okay first of all I want to be Jimmy Butler when I grow up honestly I want to live in Miami and I also I really want to learn to ride horses I don’t particularly enjoy

Horseback riding I would like like when you go like abroad I I have never been on a camel I haven’t I haven’t been but I would like to horseback ride why you looking at me like that I have nothing to say I mean I probably need some land

And need to change some other things in my life but like I want I feel like it would be very therapeutic for me to be in nature the animals like in the beach in the ocean maybe but otherwise pass they stink so do you think do you want

To say anything about jimmmy on the horse or you just want to tell me is he the most feared player in the playoffs Jimmy’s hilarious Jimmy’s hilarious no doubt about living his best life down there in South Beach iin mad at him uh eight and four in playoff series two

Trips to the NBA finals the championship has still escaped playoff Jimmy who averages 21 a game during the regular season but goes up to 27 come playoff time we know that when it matters most he’s going to show up the question is is it going to be enough to get them over

The hump finally it has hasn’t been the case yet so just to double down on that cuz I had some my team we looked this up the other day the last three seasons right Miami Easter Conference Finals run they uh made the finals and then of

Course this season in the month of April before we even get to the playoffs the Jimmy Butler rev up he UPS his productivity to almost 31 points per game and shooting close to 60% from the field in the last three seasons that’s jumping from around like 22 23 just in

The month of April so the rev up is real in terms of the playoffs it’s tough to isolate this question from star and team but it’s just a combination of Jimmy culture guys getting healthy um and the way that they just find Diamonds in the Rough I love the pickup of Terry roier

I’ve always been a fan of Terry roier and I loved him when he was in Boston obviously I didn’t I I discount this time in Charlotte because that can contaminate anybody uh but now that he’s in Miami it’s a beautiful beautiful thing so Props to him and we’ll see what

They ready and Tyler him and Tyler her if they ready for the playoffs it’d be a good where’ you ride a camel um Dubai and I did it in Jordan too but real quick if you have a chance to go to Petra and Jordan ever one the wonders of the world

Dubai and Jord the terer told me when right after the trade we had a game in Miami and he said he was so excited about the opportunity to compete for a team that competes for championships like he just savored that and he’s making the most of appreciate you

Getting us back to basketball instead of being distracted by her plans and all her her fantasies and all of that stuff yeah yeah yeah oh what whatever which team is more likely to make a return to the Conference Finals the Lakers or the Miami Heat I’m very

Curious on your answer Stephen A but since it’s International women’s day I know I’m going to go first because I know you like to manifest Miami in the finals so you can hear eston and get to go to South Beach when it comes to June but the answer is truly Miami because JJ

Is absolutely correct it feels like ever since that seven game losing streak they have turned the corner but honestly it’s based off of the Western Conference because if you’re going to stack them up against the Lakers path the Lakers have the path of most resistance if the playoffs started SL playin started today

The Lakers would go up against the Golden State Warriors in the playin then they’d have to look up and play either the Dallas Mavericks with Luca donic who is leading the league and scoring and also has so many clutch moments in the postseason and the Sacramento Kings just

To make the playoffs and by the way the Nuggets they’re only one game back of the Timberwolves we could see a situation where coming in at eight the Nuggets finished number one and then you’ve got joic then you’ve got the Squad that we just saw dismantle the

Celtics down the stretch so yeah as much as the Lakers have been there the the Heat have a better path to make it moving forward go ahead Wendy yeah this is a good question with an easy answer it’s unquestionably the heat when you look at the heat they’re

In tied for six right now with Philadelphia and they have missed the most games due to player injuries of any team in the league they are not a six Place team they are holding a six Place record because of injuries they are not a six Place team they also have the

Third easiest schedule coming in by opponent winning percentage they are primed to move up and finish in that top six they’ve got two games left against Philadelphia who they’re tied with where they can do the separation on their own not even needing any help also the teams

In the East that they’re going to have to compete with all of them are really banged up and you know I can’t predict injury Futures but Miami is getting healthier all those teams are getting more injured and you look at the Lakers I don’t see them getting into the play

Or getting out of the playin I don’t see them getting into the top six so the path for the heat is going to be easier they’re a better team than their record shows the Lakers are more accurate to the record that they’ve had because they’ve generally been healthy with

Their star players I think it’s a no-brainer that the heat um I think it would be hard they have to pull some upsets but I think the Heat have the better shot well far well far be it for me to be the contrarian amongst you both but I’m going to say although I

Sincerely wish that you are right because you are absolutely telling the truth when every everybody in their mou knows where I want to become June May and June it’s Miami ain’t no doubt about it however I would say to y’all that even though the path is easier it still

Doesn’t mean that I’m going to say that it’s more likely for the heat to get to the Conference Finals than the Los Angeles Lakers because let’s hyp let’s let’s engage in the hypothetical here because we’re allowed to because the S the standings are not finite it’s a

Situation right now where if you’re the Los Angeles Lakers and you get to avoid playing Denver until the Conference Final per se who in the west can’t be had who else has stood out when they’ve gone against when the Lakers have gone against OKC we’ve seen what they’ve been

Able to do with them they’ve got the size to some degree to match up with Minnesota and now call Anthony towns is Out Sacramento can score in bunches on anybody as they show us time and time again but they can’t defend the way that we would like them to oh Golden State

Keeps going through one thing after another every time we believe in Dallas something happens even when LCA donic is dropping triple doubles they can still manage to lose to a Philadelphia 76ers Team without Joel andb on a Sunday afternoon so we got to take those things into consideration as well I would tell

You we don’t mention New Orleans enough I will because they’ve got size they’ve got depth they’ve got athleticism and they’ve been playing well they’re coming I’m not going to ignore them but when I look at the Los Angeles Lakers since February first 10 and five offensive

Rating third best in the NBA behind the Celtics and the thunder field goal percent 51.4% tie for the best in the NBA three-point shooting 40.1% third best in the NBA assist per game fifth best in the NBA and turnovers per game 10.4 second fewest now they

Can’t stop a cold in terms of their back court defensively with D’Angelo Russell and Austin Reeves that’s problematic and I get that and Anthony Davis has to step up because LeBron James has been doing everything but gift wrapped in him being the damn number one option in the face

Of the franchise and the best guy on the team and he doesn’t seem to want to take it in big games the way we would like him to but in the end when you look at the Western Conference I just say to myself other than Denver who could you

Look at the Lakers and say the Lakers can’t take when I look at Miami and I look at Jimmy Butler bamat bio Tyler hero they’ve only been on the court with one another 21 of 62 games this year there’s some cohesiveness they would have to work out they ranked 22nd in the

League in offensive efficiency and 25th in rebounds per game looking at all of those things for Miami could they make a run sure but they did it last year you’re willing to bet on that this year I don’t know about that y’all go ahead Jan well I think you can make that exact

Argument that you made like hey the matchups the favorability you can make that exact argument for the Miami Heat because in one postseason we saw last year they took down the bucks now mind you I know Giannis was coming off of an injury situation and if there’s one

Person that I think the Celtic lose sleepover it is absolutely playoff Jimmy it is this Miami Heat Squad and they seem like a team similar I’m not saying in talents or like best team right but similar to the Nuggets early when the season started the the uh Denver Nuggets

They lost a couple of early Road games it just seemed like their complete focus wasn’t there and I think that’s because they made it to the Pinnacle they made it to the NBA finals they won they won a championship and now they’re like okay our focus is showing up in the big games

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FIRST TAKE | Nobody want to see Miami Heat in the playoffs – Stephen A. all in on Jimmy Butler