Miami Heat: Jimmy Butler Took The Blame And That’s Why You Admire Him

The Miami Heat are not going to the NBA Finals. Their season is over and it’s on to next year.

Unfortunately, those are the breaks for a Miami Heat squad that took the Boston Celtics right up against the brink of upset and elimination on their part, only to come up short or a little bit off, such as the case with Jimmy Butler‘s final shot attempt.

But that’s alright. As it has been hotly contested and debated by now, you have to trust him to hit that shot.

He took you there as a team and he is the guy that has always taken accountability for the things that he does on the court. In fact and being the leader he is, he has also taken accountability for things that were not completely in the realm of his control.

Take this latest example. Here is what he had to say after Game 7 against the Boston Celtics.

The guy took it all on himself.

The Miami Heat weren’t able to get it done in the Eastern Conference Finals, but Jimmy Butler was great. Still, he took the defeat all on himself and you love that.

Even though he had the numbers that he had, the performances that he had, and did things that only he and the greatest ones before him had done on the basketball court in a playoff scenario, he still took it all on himself.

Here is the rest of the quote from above.

"“In my book, I just think I can’t have bad games,” Butler said. “I played like trash in a couple. I think that was the series.“I didn’t do my job. Stats don’t mean anything, as I say over and over again. The Boston Celtics did what they came out here to do in this series. I learned that I have to be better, and I will be better.”"

The man left it all out there on the floor. When many were ready to write the Miami Heat off before their Game 6 showdown in Boston, Jimmy Butler toted his team across the finish line.

And still, the man takes all of the blame on himself for losing the Conference Finals, after he was the leading performer in the series, for his team, a top-two performer in the entire playoffs, and the biggest reason they were there in the first place.

That’s why you adore and admire the guy as a basketball player. That’s also why you trust him when he says he’ll “be better”—because he just takes it all that personally.