The Miami Heat had a situation in their last contest. Yes, this is true.
The Miami Heat are also among the most disciplined, hardest working, grittiest, most well-coached teams in the league. This is also true.
With that, you have to believe that the other side of what was the sideline in-fighting from Wednesday will be all the answers you ever did need from this Miami Heat team.
It’ll either propel them to do something very special, as has been projected for much of the year, or lead to a letdown.
With a coach, a franchise, players like these, and Pat Riley being the one ultimately stirring the whole concoction together, you have to believe it’s closer to the former than the latter. Yes, that might mean a visit or three, to Pat Riley’s office.
And yes, that means for all parties involved. That means three guys— or more, including Coach Spo, Udonis Haslem, and Jimmy Butler.
Miami Heat: Jimmy Butler Keeping The ‘Main Thing The Main Thing’
Jimmy Butler would certainly be one of those guys. But that isn’t a strange place for him, as in the company of Pat Riley is somewhere he often finds himself.
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Recently, while speaking with Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press, Jimmy actually put himself firmly in the company of his ultimate boss. Using one of Riley and Coach Spoelstra’s best quotes, Butler went into detail about why he finds himself involved with so many things.
He also spoke, a bit, to those that feel like he doesn’t focus enough on the main thing. Which couldn’t be further from the truth, as he literally acknowledges it as the “main thing” in the following quote.
Heck, see for yourself though.
"I need all the different things that I compete in just to level me out,” Butler said. “Too much of any good thing is always a bad thing. I live by that. So, I try to take it piece by piece, day by day, realizing that I do keep the main thing the main thing — that is basketball. I do want to win a championship. We all know that. I do want to be healthy. We all know that. But if I’m too locked in, I forget about everything else, everybody else. And I don’t want to do that."
That says a lot, doesn’t it? He doesn’t want to be “stupidly locked in”.
That joke writes itself at this point though, doesn’t it?
Miami Heat: Even With All Else Jimmy Butler Has Going, Hoops Most Important
There are a lot of things that can be said about Jimmy Butler. And those things have been said.
Actually, they are, probably, currently being said about Jimmy Butler.
You can bet your bottom pretty penny on that. However and still, this one thing remains.
There is, at least, one thing you can’t say about Jimmy Butler. You can’t say the man will cheat you out of the effort or that he is “wishy-washy”.
If he’s committed to it, you are going to get a 1000 percent effort.
That’s, not only, been apparent during his time in Miami, but throughout his entire career. You know the type of guy you are getting before you even express an interest.
That’s, also, what should give you hope about the other side of the Miami Heat’s sideline snafu from the Warriors game. Jimmy probably knows he messed up, meaning, we’ll likely see the best of him moving forward.
Heck, even if it’s not peak Jimmy, he’ll be better from it, at the very least.
Also, at the very least, you can’t question his commitment because even amongst the millions of other things the NBA’s Most Interesting Man has on his plate—he knows that Miami Heat “basketball” is “the main thing”.