Miami Heat: Jimmy Butler finds 3-ball in first Raptors matchup of the year
The Miami Heat are on a four-game winning streak! Imagine that?
Just a week or so removed from a time where we were wondering if this team was fixable or able to be remedied from some of the simple yet compounding issues they were afflicted with, they have now managed to string together a really good four-game streak.
It started with a win in Sacramento, followed by a win over the Lakers in Los Angeles, then it was further pushed along by a good win in Oklahoma City on Monday, before finally all being topped off by Wednesday night’s huge win over a Toronto team that’s currently in the top half of the conference standings.
While the win was awesome, much appreciated, and would have been good enough by it’s lonesome, it wasn’t the only positive thing to come from this win. Jimmy Butler appears to, perhaps, have found his three ball again, at least a little.
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The Miami Heat got a huge win on Wednesday over Toronto, but they may have won twice if Jimmy Butler’s 3-ball is back.
Jimmy Butler had 25 three point attempts coming into Wednesday’s contest. He had 29 exiting.
Entering the contest, he had made just four of those 25 attempts, for a horrid 16 percent shooting from three. To make that even more dramatic, all four of those makes came within the last two weeks, which might not be that bad when you think about it.
Either he found something or he realized that he has to start, at least, taking more of them to keep the defense honest. Well, on Wednesday night, it all came together.
He made almost as many then as he had all season coming into the game. While it isn’t safe to say that he is all the way back as a shooter, to see him taking them so confidently and, of course, making them like he did on Wednesday is a great thing for both him and the Miami Heat as a team.
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This win puts the Miami Heat within a rock’s-throw of fourth place in the conference themselves. That, along with Jimmy’s fortune on Wednesday, is enough to celebrate a bit if you’re the Heat.