Jimmy Butler does it all for the Miami Heat, which is why a lot of his stuff gets looked over.
While you see his impact and how he’s everywhere, if you know what you are looking at, if you don’t, his performances on that side of the ball won’t pop. In example, Jimmy Butler, at one point, almost guarded everyone in the Denver Nuggets games on Wednesday night.
Did you know that?
At one point, it was him on the backside of Nikola Jokic. Upon the entry pass, what was the outcome?
The NBA’s league-leader in steals proceeded to make a play, as he often does, whipping around the big man and getting the pilfer. But he does things like that 15-20 times a game and across all five positions, however, you won’t notice it if you don’t know what you are looking at.
That also has a ton to do with the way that the Miami Heat play defense, which is another factor. That’s all just it though.
Jimmy won’t win the award this year for those reasons. Because of Bam (splitting the baby), because he just does the work that doesn’t pop at times (the flailing back on the body bump that Ben Simmons does or the big blocks that Gobert stands around and waits for) and because of the Miami Heat’s system ( a bunch of try-hards that switch everything so you don’t know who to attribute defensive success to), yea, those.
This isn’t over though. There’s a ton more to poke into here and trust, it will be.