Well, we have a series at least for one night with Jimmy Butler, one of the great games in NBA finals history pushing the heat to a

115-104 win over the LA Lakers and

Butler

Handily outplayed LeBron James and Anthony Davis as well and I guess we just need to talk in greater detail

About this incredible Butler performance before we hit on anything else

Absolutely and the basic numbers 40 points on 14 of 20 from the field all twos no threes

12 of 14 from the free-throw line

13 assists 11 rebound some of those huge rebounds did at five turnovers

But when you have that kind of usage totally fine and it really was a tactical decision

There have been a lot of intriguing and important tactical decisions that have happened in this series from these two coaches

And really what it came down to was the combination of the Lakers not wanting to leave Miami shooters and giving up some

Low-resistant switches and so the basic the way to distill the Lakers game plan was

Defensively let's see if Jimmy Butler could beat us and in game three the answer was yes

Yeah, and we talked about it in the first half of the NBA cast that as it turned out

There really are only two people on the Miami Heat who apparently can guard Jimmy Butler and ISO and that's LeBron James and

Anthony Davis now

Let's keep in mind here that guarding Jimmy Butler and in ISO is

Under the conditions that the Miami Heat are providing and for large swaths of this game

Particularly down the end when the heat pulled away and Butler was the big hero the Miami Heat had

Kalealynic Tyler hero and Duncan Robinson all on the floor together

So three guys that you just absolutely cannot leave

Including Anthony Davis having to guard one of those players and then Jay Crowder is also a solid shooter in his own right or they go to

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