What a season this has been for our team.we have been all over the place with scoring especially our 3point attempts.Logic would dictate that we were number1 last year so with essentially the same crew minus Pj.how bad could we be.well as we all know our team regressed to a bottom 3 in 3 pt.percentage.Before the playoffs Jimmy Butler stayed stated that our team will prevail from this point on.I stupidly thought that he was blowing smoke up my azz.We were ok in the playins but had to face the number 2 seed.Well we killed them making a huge percentage of our 3,pointers.Also playoff Jimmy reared his outstanding head and we are some venison for that series.Now on to Madison square garden to take on the hated Knicks and their leader Mr big gangster Tom Thibs.I love our chances in this one
I guess everyone has seen Jovic’s look. That’s me! That’s most of us Heat fans! Bummer I wasn’t able to watch game 5 (I know what a letdown as a diehard Heat fan) and was just glancing at the play-by-play in my phone as my wife kept glancing at me also. Well, more like staring intensely lol. And finally when I got the time to watch the recap…Jovic’s face all over again! I watched 4 videos of the game and maybe a couple more of Jimmy’s shot that got it to OT. After a game 4 masterpiece by the master himself, Mr. Butler, coming back from being down 14, did we really thought they could do it again? I said to myself am I really betting against this dude who just dropped 56 two days ago?! But this is enemy ground and the opponent is desperate. Very desperate. Well, the hell with those “complications” and LETS GO HEAT! That was entering the final quarter which would eventually turn out its the Bucks last of the season. So here we are enjoying the Heat’s first round victory in unbelievable fashion. Again, thank you Mr. Butler sir! Hoping we get pass the next rd with JB's growing legend and of course more help from the rest of the crew. Go Heat!
#1) you want your role guys and rotation players to know what they're doing. If Jimmy is ball-dominant the whole season, then nobody else is getting in their reps and when post-season time comes I don't think you get plays like Gabe Vincent's 3 to bring the score to 116-117. I think for the first half of the season, Jimmy is deliberately in "teacher" mode, or something similar, to make sure the rest of the team is clicking. Then once they are, he can start taking over with the confidence that when the other guys *need* to step up, they're capable of it.
#2) If the other team has to prep for you, and all of their tape says that Jimmy's going to score around 20 a game, then it's harder to game-plan for what to do when Jimmy starts scoring 40 and 50. It's almost a metaphor for surrounding him and Bam with shooters: even if the ball is going to Jimmy every play, the opposing defense still has to pay respect to the shooters outside the arc or else you leave one of them open and Jimmy fires off a pass. Opposing team's gotta prep for a situation where Max or Kyle or Caleb or Duncan or whoever goes off, because each of them has demonstrated that they *can* be dangerous. This misdirect enables Jimmy's dominance by taking the focus off of him.
Or all that might just be me philosophizing over nothing. Who knows.
What a season this has been for our team.we have been all over the place with scoring especially our 3point attempts.Logic would dictate that we were number1 last year so with essentially the same crew minus Pj.how bad could we be.well as we all know our team regressed to a bottom 3 in 3 pt.percentage.Before the playoffs Jimmy Butler stayed stated that our team will prevail from this point on.I stupidly thought that he was blowing smoke up my azz.We were ok in the playins but had to face the number 2 seed.Well we killed them making a huge percentage of our 3,pointers.Also playoff Jimmy reared his outstanding head and we are some venison for that series.Now on to Madison square garden to take on the hated Knicks and their leader Mr big gangster Tom Thibs.I love our chances in this one
I guess everyone has seen Jovic’s look. That’s me! That’s most of us Heat fans! Bummer I wasn’t able to watch game 5 (I know what a letdown as a diehard Heat fan) and was just glancing at the play-by-play in my phone as my wife kept glancing at me also. Well, more like staring intensely lol. And finally when I got the time to watch the recap…Jovic’s face all over again! I watched 4 videos of the game and maybe a couple more of Jimmy’s shot that got it to OT. After a game 4 masterpiece by the master himself, Mr. Butler, coming back from being down 14, did we really thought they could do it again? I said to myself am I really betting against this dude who just dropped 56 two days ago?! But this is enemy ground and the opponent is desperate. Very desperate. Well, the hell with those “complications” and LETS GO HEAT! That was entering the final quarter which would eventually turn out its the Bucks last of the season. So here we are enjoying the Heat’s first round victory in unbelievable fashion. Again, thank you Mr. Butler sir! Hoping we get pass the next rd with JB's growing legend and of course more help from the rest of the crew. Go Heat!
Here's my thinking:
#1) you want your role guys and rotation players to know what they're doing. If Jimmy is ball-dominant the whole season, then nobody else is getting in their reps and when post-season time comes I don't think you get plays like Gabe Vincent's 3 to bring the score to 116-117. I think for the first half of the season, Jimmy is deliberately in "teacher" mode, or something similar, to make sure the rest of the team is clicking. Then once they are, he can start taking over with the confidence that when the other guys *need* to step up, they're capable of it.
#2) If the other team has to prep for you, and all of their tape says that Jimmy's going to score around 20 a game, then it's harder to game-plan for what to do when Jimmy starts scoring 40 and 50. It's almost a metaphor for surrounding him and Bam with shooters: even if the ball is going to Jimmy every play, the opposing defense still has to pay respect to the shooters outside the arc or else you leave one of them open and Jimmy fires off a pass. Opposing team's gotta prep for a situation where Max or Kyle or Caleb or Duncan or whoever goes off, because each of them has demonstrated that they *can* be dangerous. This misdirect enables Jimmy's dominance by taking the focus off of him.
Or all that might just be me philosophizing over nothing. Who knows.