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That's pretty clearly not enough if Bam's not going to play at all.

All I'm saying is he is the superstar. Granted, he's not LeBron James. He has a career high of fifty three points for one night. You need Jimmy Butler to play like a superstar, but he's not that kind of superstar lineup.

But can he be for a night, I guess is what he's talking about. What are you talking about? What can he be for a night like? Are you talking about. Take 30 shots and and score 40 points.

Jimmy Butler is not buying into the fact that this series is done. That's just not how he's cut. We all know that he sounds ridiculous. Now in interviews to the nation, I wouldn't put it past him because he's like literally the only option if Bama and Goran Dragic can go. Have to put it past them, though, Mike, because that's not the kind of player that he is, especially on a team where he's going to be the primary option, where the Lakers, who have an exceptional defense, not not decent, it's an exceptional defense and they've got a legitimate rim protector.

Explain to me how you guys have Jimmy Butler getting into that stratosphere when the shots are difficult to come by and they're going to be leaning toward him. Oh, my God, nailed it. Ha ha ha. Oh, that is horridly. That was Friday. Wow.

Oh, I don't think you even played the worst of the sound. I think I said at some point that I thought I'd expect that more from Non Hero or even Duncan Robinson, because you'd need to get it from the perimeter.

I don't think you played the worst sound.

It's tough to find words than that. I mean, you're claiming there's worse. I think there is worse. We'll keep digging and we'll keep digging through that hour and see if we can find worse.

But yet you said he couldn't have a 40 point game and you were right. He had a 40 point game along with that triple double.

Well, he played the best game of his life at the most important time. That's a career high for him. Twenty six points in the paint regular season playoffs. He's never he's never done that before. And one of the things that was amazing about it to me is there wasn't a lot of cheap ones in there. There were no threes. These the first players to got to score 40 like that without a three and Shaq at the beginning of the 2000s, he was fourteen of twenty twelve of fourteen from the free throw line.

You're right, no threes. It was amazing. He was efficient. He was great. And he was doing it against LeBron in the fourth quarter.

Well, yeah, some of the top LeBron not guarding him but often.

But Jimmy taking advantage of the switch that was always taking advantage of the switch.

He was not attacking the same way with Sorcerous on Sorceries whenever he got the switch to to KCP.

But I think the one thing that you did get right about your prediction is you assume that if he was going to get forty, well, this was not the right part. You assume that if he was going to get forty, he would have to be like lights out from the perimeter in ways that we only saw once during the postseason. And I think I quickly bounce back. And I said if he goes a line 14 times, that means Anthony Davis is going to get in trouble.

And that opens up a world of possibilities for the other guys doing better. Now, the other guys didn't really do better outside of Kelly Olynyk, this was a one man gang and Jimmy Butler.

It was so one man gang. You saw this stat from Hammers right where he's got both Jimmy, he's got both LeBron and D combined for forty point they combined for eleven assists. He had thirteen by himself, they combined for fifteen rebounds, he had eleven by himself. This is the first time, it's the first time according to Mark Spears, that LeBron James has been outscored, outrebounded and lb assisted in a final game that includes his teammates. So any time that LeBron James has played a finals game, he's never been on the wrong end.

Jimmy Butler had more rebounds than anyone on the court. Yeah, he had more assists than anyone on the court, and he had more points than anyone on the court.

He was great. And LeBron didn't seem to be too thrilled about being outplayed by Jimmy Butler. Losing that game was mad. The officials did not stop chirping the entire night. I wish he would shut up. He's the greatest player or the second greatest player we've ever seen. He's incapable of just accepting a whistle and accepting what the referees call in certain situations. It's it's annoying. It's disturbing. You just are you just petulant child?

Are you just discovering this? I mean, this is a complaint. People a certain set. You can't wait ten seconds and give Jimmy the props that Jimmy deserves and sit there until the end of the game and walk off the court with the rest of your teammates. You can't do it.

That that that is the bad look from LeBron James walking off the court before the game is over. He was asked, did you walk off the game court because you were frustrated because you thought the game was over? He answered both. I'm not going to whine about him complaining to the refs. We had four years of that down here and two championships in large part because it gets to the line and gets those.

I just love that he's making that complaint when he got a foul call stepping on to heat players feet like they didn't touch him, didn't do anything. He stepped on on two of them. It wasn't just one guy's foot. He stepped on two people's feet. And then Andre Iguodala gets called for the foul.

Quite frankly, lucky that it wasn't a flagrant on the Miami Heat just to survive. For me, this game was getting Anthony Davis in foul trouble. The Lakers defense wasn't as good in large part because Anthony Davis wasn't out there. Now, I don't understand why Anthony Davis didn't take a field goal attempt in that fourth quarter because Frank Vogel let it ride with Anthony Davis. We saw an adjustment in how Miami played Anthony Davis entrapping him. But I think the real large part of this game, why their defense was worse, why Miami all of a sudden was fighting on the glass in ways that we hadn't seen the two previous games is because the giant mismatch that they have in Anthony Davis wasn't on the floor, couldn't get into a rhythm.

And in that fourth quarter, we started trapping them using the baseline. Any time he got the ball on the block and it affected him, he was bad. He probably lost his MVP last night.

How about how about the idea? How many times did this happen to you guys in the first two games of the series where Jimmy Butler or Tyler Hero would? Go to the pain and the shot would get blocked and you'd be like, oh my God, what are they going to do about that? Like, what are they going to do about the fact that he's so much bigger than everyone else out there? LeBron, LeBron guards Jimmy Wells to God.

But every time that he was guarding him, they made sure to get the switch. I don't know whether Vogul has any intention of altering that. I don't know when Bam comes back either. But the Lakers really they really blew a golden opportunity to guys.

I don't think I've ever seen ever seen a finals team play as poorly as the Lakers did in that first quarter. Ten turnovers for a first quarter.

Yeah, they were only down three after that. But but just the way they came out, I'm talking about like, you come out like that, just that's sloppy with the basketball after they didn't even have ten in the previous game, did they.

I'm not certain I'll check on it right now, but it was a very sloppy start to that game. But the Heat needed that they needed the Lakers to come out a bit flat, a bit sloppy, and the Heat needed to get out to a lead, which they did, and had a lead after the first quarter.

So they had their defense set because it kept getting to the line to and warrantees. And Duncan Robinson, listen. Look, I know the imposter syndrome thing was out there. I don't want to come down too hard on the kid because he had those quotes. But this isn't one or two playoff series. I haven't seen Duncan Robinson since. That frontrunning Pacers series do need to help this team out a hell of a lot better than he is when Markieff Morris is Duncan Robinson all of a sudden.

And we don't have someone to match that Duncan Robinson needs to show the F up.

Well, one of the things about what the Heat are doing defensively is going to allow Caldwell, Pope and Morris and Caruso to get a bunch of open threes. The Lakers are not a good three point shooting team. They'll take their chances with that. But you say you don't want to bury Duncan Robinson. What were you screaming at your television last?

I'll kill you myself out here myself. I think the most important, important part of all of what Jimmy Butler did last night, because that was the Allen Iverson moment, even though Tyler Hero probably stole, like, the the lasting image from that from that game unfairly, because Allen Iverson probably doesn't have that game live eternally if he doesn't step over time, Lou. The fact that he was taking the assignment of man up on LeBron James most of the time because Miami would show Duncan Robinson and Duncan Robinson would have to move out of the way and sometimes get lost.

He was just bad again. But Jimmy Butler guarding LeBron, what did you say to the television?

I'll kill you myself. Dunk Jimmy Butler to take on the defensive responsibility of guarding LeBron James, not taking a break in that second half, playing forty plus minutes, giving you that game with a look at that starting lineup. Guys, it's Meyers, Leonard Jae Crowder, a twenty year old Tyler hero, and Duncan Robinson, that is. I know when you look at the spread, it's the second largest underdog straight up victory that we've seen in the NBA finals.

I don't recall the first. It's either the Cavs team that was broken by injury or maybe that Allen Iverson game. But to me, that is the most improbable victory in NBA finals history. Now, it might be the the one in Lakers in five, but I told you, I just wanted that Heat culture when I wanted to be proud of my guys. I wanted to see that came from Jimmy Butler. I got it. He sends the series.

We're going to have five games. Game five is the largest break, largest rest for guys like Goran, Dragic and Bam Adebayo. And after the game, Jimmy Butler said, when those guys come back, not if those guys come back. So how can you not just be over the moon with what you saw?

The Lakers had nine turnovers for game two, the entirety of Game two. Dugit Robinson, I thought had a big three down the stretch. I thought he played five last night. No, I don't go to God.

I'm okay with it. Until I was two was plus twenty seven. I don't want to hear about it. Don't tell me plus minus. When he was on the court they were plus twenty seven on. Tell me about plus minus fraudulent.

I love how much GGG loves how much. Any time Duncan Robyn Duncan Robinson does anything though he drives to the hoop and passes it. He's like you see what Duncan just did. That's impressive. Like any time he does anything but hit a three also. How scary was that fourth quarter at the beginning of it?

That's like the worst feeling in sports when the Lakers were starting to come back, who I expected them throughout the game to make some sort of run. I mean, that it was as useless a performance from Anthony Davis as you could imagine the guards, because the first quarter he was responsible for those turnovers. The fouls were bad. I was surprised Vogel didn't challenge that third one because you got to keep Anthony Davis in the game. He's the reason your defense is good.

Like the reason Jimmy Butler was able to have that career game at the rim is because it's because Anthony Davis was not out there. I'm not saying Jimmy Butler could have also had a good game, but you can't tell me that Jimmy Butler would have done that in the paint better than he. Ever been if Anthony Davis had not been found? Now, in fairness to Jimmy Butler, Anthony Davis, Vogel did let it ride with Anthony Davis in that second half, and he played the majority of that second half but wasn't in rhythm, was confused.

And this is coming off of a game two where Anthony Davis straight up had one of the greatest offensive quarters and defensive quarters I have ever seen in basketball. He was just out of sync and like I said, the MVP for sure with that performance. I know about that.

You guys are doing this all wrong. And you need to know your role as a member of the media, as the Heat's mouthpiece. What you need to do is stop telling the Lakers that that was such a horrible game. Stop telling Anthony Davis that was the worst game you've ever seen. Stop all of that negativity because they're going to use it as bulletin board material and you don't want to give it to them. What you say is, you know what, the Lakers, just an off day was fine.

You know what? They'll come back. It'll be fine. And then if anything, you go the opposite and you're like, that's not something Jimmy Butler can do again. Right. Jimmy Butler cannot have that game. But that was a fluke game out of Jimmy Butler, right? You gave me the bulletin board material. Jimmy, you can't do that again.

I'm sorry. I don't know what was going on there. They let the heat have that one. They're not going to steal another one. This game is going to throw this series is going to be done in five games. I mean, it's over. It's over. What happened yesterday? Oh, accounting error. That's what happened yesterday.

Well, you say I should be careful with what I say. No one should listen to anything that I say, given how we started this segment and this show in this work.

We know. But I think what Bill is saying is somehow that he got hold of that sound, used it as bulletin board material for Jimmy for game three. You need to say the same thing for game four.

Well, the thing that you guys are doing is the same thing that Mike Mike Ryan, who is now an adult and a father.

Last night he was let's not forget, Mike Ryan gave up on the heat on Friday, OK? He was just happy to be here on Friday.

Hold on a second. Against the Bucs and then against the Celtics.

Also give up against the Bucs. I may have picked the Bucs at the start of that series. And after game one, it quickly change.

And I I'm still awaiting my prediction in the Celtics series, but that performance was super cool and that's really what I was hoping for once the injuries happen. Now, you've extended the series and maybe possibly Bam Adebayo and Goran Dragic come back or one of the two come back and maybe we can make it interesting but no no no they're not going to come back because they're soft.

That's why they're not going to come back and the series is over and they're not going to win another game and Jimmy can't do it again. I'm telling you right now, mark my words, I, I wish that they would.

I wish there were Billy Gill's words in the locker room. They're not going to post Billy's words in the locker room.

You need to say they're not going to post mine either. I just.

Well, they did. Look, Dan, look at the game Jimmy had. He did the complete opposite of what you said. He's listening. They're listening to your part.

Dan, I love that last night when Mike, I need you to tell the story because I texted you and Stu got toward the start of the fourth quarter and said there's some great sound from last week that you guys can play off of me getting it spectacularly wrong. And Mike started screaming at me via text, stop screaming at the television. And Duncan Robinson saying, what was it?

And two gods also said and played on a mike giving up on the heat. When I said, you know, it doesn't feel like the series is going to be what we expected because of the injuries.

So after you guys text me this between the third and fourth quarter, by the way, it was still like a two possession game over. But what the hell are you doing?

I replied, You'd be proud of my response. I'm going to hit you both with my car heater only up five. Shut up, the both of you. And Stu, you should know better.

Yeah, well, he apologized. I did. I said my apologies. Yeah. And then quickly thereafter I replied back to the group. Hope you're happy. A missed layup.

And then LeBron and one jerks the both of you.

OK, but I must not have jinxed it too much. I mean, in that moment. But you stopped and you you played the role because then. Yeah, you knew exactly what you did and you said you can't expect to slow Markieff Morris.

Right. Who turned in somehow inexplicably to Steve Kerr late in that game.

Nineteen point game from Koosman Morris. Look man, if it's Florida, I'm just telling you this, OK, in terms of what the Heat's defensive strategy is, if Markieff, Morris and Kuzma are the reason you lose you got to take it. You have to accept that. You have to be good with the fact that they allowed those guys to stay open and make threes while trying to stop Anthony Davis and LeBron.

Or did you waste the good Kuzma Markieff Morris game.

I mean they still have the one Danny Green game which at this point in his career like he's probably just one, he's not the same kind of player. They've already burned up a couple of Rondo games that shot off the top of the back. And I was like, if we lose by two, I'm never. I love Jeff Van Gundy's comment on that. When Mark Jackson was talking about that's a shot in Horse and Van Gundy says that's a word that starts with horse.

Get me started on this. Mark Jackson and this Mark Jackson clear agenda. It's a campaign against the Miami Heat from from our Jackson, who we all know is a LeBron guy. And then he's like, I've heard that I'm out here to hurt.

What the hell do you want the Miami Heat to do when they're out there with six to Kendrick? None. And he lifts up the example of Kendrick Dunn blocking Anthony Davis. He's like, see if he can do it. You can all do it out of here. Miami played so well in game two offensively. They played damn near their best game. Their best game was game three, but damn near their best game. And that was just a metrics thing.

You don't have people that match up. You have to get Anthony Davis off the court, be it by injury or foul trouble. And they got him off the court and it changed the game.

I can't believe we've gone this long and have it spent too much time on excuse me, that's five dollars. What's coughed directly into the microphone during a pandemic?

We had triple that. Fine, added it out. We're taping no triple fine by twenty still and no cough directly into a microphone during a pandemic. Well, it's my microphone. You're in a room that's I mean, we're at the fringes of six feet here, right?

We spent a lot of time talking this morning without discussing Kelly Olynyk. The Oleynik minutes were unbelievable last night to get seventeen points on just nine shots and that steal towards the end of the game.

Oh the steal culture man the chase down steal from Kelly Olynyk Has Magic Johnson tweeted about it in terms of greatest offensive plays to play I've ever seen in the playoffs The Kelly Olynyk chased down.

We'll all be talking about it decades from now and he loves him too Olynyk I feel like he's going to sign him and bring him over if he ends up coaching the Clippers.

What do you say Chris. What do you saying. That he loves the Heat's white guys like. I mean he just every time they do something he's like that's a great mind right there. I love his like about Tyler, I love his game. It's like he's white. He can play basketball like that. Like I love his, his, his, you know, it's just I don't know I don't know.

What I like about Tyler is he'll keep putting it up. No hesitation. Duncan Robinson likes to give you the illusion that it's no hesitation, but now he's just rushing his shots. Spoelstra had to tell Duncan Robinson after the game. Not not after the game. During the game. Shoot the effing ball. You don't have to do that with Tyler Hero. So the snarl goes viral and that's cute. And he was six for eighteen and everyone's making fun of that, even though that's Paul Pierce gave you a lot of that over his career.

But you don't have to worry about his guts. I'm learning a lot about people right now. I'm I'm taking notes. I'm taking notes. Kelly Olynyk Guts. Jimmy Butler, guts teller hero. Still learning. Solomon Hill sucks dude. The best sequence was only minutes back to back LeBron James sets a tone three pointer Solomon Hill answers right back then George Smith gets in the mix He was four minutes He was one of one had three points yet somehow was still minus five.

How is that possible Solly Hill. Back to Mark Jackson for a second, he was complaining mostly about the Heat's defense in game two and to his point, it was a lot better last night. So, I mean, even in game two, they were saying the Heat were playing well defensively. It wasn't their criticism more of their defensive effort.

Mark Jackson didn't know what zone was. He kept it like crushing their zone. Look what you think about Zone. And I know Bomani has plenty of opinions about zone defense and how it's for cowards. The Miami Heat Zone defense, if you look at the numbers, held Los Angeles to 40 percent shooting when they went man in game two, they were 60 percent. Now, it's a little funny math because second second chance points as a result of that zone were a big deal.

And I get it. But what do you want Miami to do, man? Their defense got better because Anthony Davis wasn't in there for the first half, getting offensive rebounds, giving them second chance points. This is not an effort thing with the Miami Heat. They're at their absolute ceiling right now. It's so easy to say, oh, this team's losing. There is quit. I mean, from the jump last night, they did that alley oop with Dwight Howard that I've seen plenty of Lakers regular season games.

That's a play that they run off the tip. They catch people sleeping with that. You're questioning their effort off the jump, like, come on, dude.

Well, I think I think one of the things that just you have to marvel at the guts is there was a point in an NBA finals game against LeBron James last night where on the court it was Meyers, Leonard Solomon Hill, Kelly Olynyk, Tyler Hero. Yeah. And and none. I can't believe this is an NBA finals. No, I couldn't, I couldn't, I'm looking at that. I'm letting go. That is like Allen Iverson, Sixers supporting cast type stuff.

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The reason that I questioned what you guys are doing with Jimmy Butler is because it's not even like you can bank on a consistent jumper, like maybe Jimmy Butler can play a super aggressive game and get you 12 free throws or something. Maybe Jimmy Butler decides to go neck first into the paint and try to create stuff for their three point shooters. But I just don't know how you get the monster scoring game from a guy whose jumper you don't trust. Just get rid of it all.

I want to hear all of it. I don't want to spend the whole show with you coming back every region. Just throw it all out there for the people. It's what they're here for today.

You just want to tear it off like a Band-Aid.

Yeah, let's let's get rid of all of it all at once. How many of those do you have? Oh, I've got two more prime cuts. This all comes courtesy of the local our from just Friday. Still available on the Dan Levitan show is to God speed. Here's another prime cut.

I like Jimmy Butler as a player. I do not mean to disparage him when I say I don't think of him as a superstar. I think of him as an excellent basketball player. But if you ask me who's more likely to get thirty points tonight because they hot from the perimeter, I've got a couple of guys on the team who aren't him that I would think of in terms of Tyler here on there and not just in terms of shooting. They go not Duncan Robinson goes nine for ten from three.

I'm not expecting four for six. If Jimmy Butler does erupt and give you the forty point game, it's because he's getting to the line 14 times. Oh, that aged.

Well, I'm surprised you left that in there. I'm sure our team. Exactly. Was it fourteen exact free throws. And here's the the final prime choice cut courtesy of Friday. Oh no Dad.

Do you the Jimmy Butler can give you one of those games. No. You know. Like what. Like because they need that. So he gave you one of those games against Milwaukee.

He was capable of winning, but with the full go with bam out of bios sort of being the trigger on everything they were doing offensively. No, I don't think you can get a forty point Jimmy Butler game. I don't know where where he's going to be their only offensive weapon, like he's going to be their only offensive creator. It's not just that you're losing an all star. And Goran Dragic, you're getting the two guys through which the offense runs when they're out there.

So now what is going to happen? It's going to be LeBron guarding Jimmy Butler.

My I have decided that you should have thrown like this at the end of that you should have just thrown in. You saying Jimmy Butler will have fourteen free throws again.

You should have just edited it in either that or Jeff Van Gundy calling it the greatest finals performance he's ever seen. Did you think Jimmy Butler can give you one of those things?

You know, Dad, do you think Jimmy Butler can give you one of those games? No, he can drink none.

Anything give you one of those games dunking nine threes. Do you think Jimmy Butler can give you one of those games?

No satellite. You answer in the Buscemi's question, Reggie Miller was a Hall of Famer.

Oh, that's old school. Dad, do you think Jimmy Butler can give you one of those games? No, none got outplayed by Caruso.

I'm not played by a guy who looks like Caruso. Chris was complaining during the break. Chris was complaining still about Jeff Van Gundy's analysis and pointed out correctly, he's like, man, he was he was celebrating Meyers Leonard when he was just writing the exercise.

But I think Chris is on to something.

What is that laugh, by the way, Meyers, they did a montage of Meyers, Leonard just cheering guys on from the back and what was wired for sound.

Those are so useless. It's all just come on. Come on.

I mean, they can they can say, OK, we're going to use a baseline to trap Anthony Davis. They can't go into tactics all that much. So it's mostly. Yeah, come on. Come on.

They had a Morris brother miked up and then he had that incident early in the game with Tyler here. So that's what I want to hear.

The miked up, we don't shoot, but I guess nobody would agree to wear it if they thought that that was a possibility. Like I under I actually understand protecting them if they're going to have some incident. That is national shame. Right. If you're saying something and you're asking. On the front end, we want to wire you first down, most guys are going to say, no, I don't need that at all, thank you. I don't need that in my life.

And so I understand offering them some protection, but they offer them so much as to make them useless, like they're totally useless.

You would like to hear some good old fashioned trash can get anyone to trust anything. That's not that that's not the guy just yelling, come on again and again.

I just don't want to wear a microphone while I'm playing basketball, too. I'm sure they make these like super small and not noninvasive, but it just seems like something I wouldn't want in a game where I have to be precise.

Maurice was plenty precise. He was that's that's an argument to be wired for sound. And boy, look at Meyers, Leonard plus minus. If we're doing that, he was good.

They came out in a way, you know, it felt like they had been down. They came out to start the series. They got up twenty, three, ten. And we were fearing that we would spend the rest of our lives talking about twenty twenty and saying, well, we'll always have 23 to ten because they trailed from that moment on. Basically from that moment on, it was just a total onslaught that made you wonder how are they going to be able to do anything against Anthony Davis.

I think they said on the broadcast last night that the entire finals up until last night, only two minutes, the Miami Heat didn't, trailed by double digits in the second halves. So those are the type of games that we've had in this series, such an improbable victory. It felt hopeless because you're out you're down to you take Dragic out, you take Bam out. What's the now what are they saying about Dragic.

A bad mike moving forward here because they bought themselves some time the heat Jimmy Butler just gave us maybe the biggest clue into it saying when those guys come back not not if I know Bam wanted to play the last two days even though he had difficulty I mean raising his arm before game two he was putting shots up and looking OK during warmups, as much as you can tell. But like he's got a guard, Dwight Howard at times and Dwight's going to put a shoulder.

I know him and test them right away with Bam. The next rim was the new thing. He was already battling the wrist in the shoulder. So it's a multitude of things with Bam! And I mean, you you have I'm sure the decision that Spoelstra is making is not just for the future. I'm not sure how long term those injuries are, but do you want to put a lesser version of Bam on a bio out? There is a lesser version of Bam out of bio that much better than your other options, which is increased playing time for Kelly Olynyk as ridiculous as it might sound so they know better you've got to trust them.

You guys know what Jimmy Butler was shouting. When were you doing the lip reading on him shouting I heard trouble or I see well no I heard the broadcast.

What what. But I don't think he was actually saying they're in deep trouble. I thought again and again what he was saying is he's trouble. Speaking of himself. No, no.

He confirmed exactly what he said. He was asked directly, did you say they're in trouble? And he's like, yeah. And then he talked about the game. And he's like, by the way, don't make it seem like I was out there talking garbage. Remember when LeBron and Jimmy Butler exchange words at the end of the first quarter? Jimmy said, LeBron told me that we were in trouble. So I was just saying it back, walking it back from fourth quarter because I had that exploded on timelines like, Oh, this is Damian Lillard Dancing after game one.

This is Lakers in five written all over it. Jimmy didn't just start doing that, although I wouldn't put it past him because he seems like certifiable. But it was a response to what LeBron said.

If you're a superstar free agent, do you watch the playoffs and watch that game last night in particular and say, man, that's a guy I'd like to play with, right? That had to help, right. I had to help the heat and help their chances of landing someone.

I mean, it can't hurt. But, you know, if you want to be the number one guy on a team, well, Jimmy Butler is a great teammate because he'll set you up.

He'll take your shine maybe once a series doing that because he even said it. He does this every time. And I'm always surprised by the people that are just watching Jimmy Butler for the first time because the national media is going to expect why aren't you being more aggressive? They get mad every time he passes out of an easy layup, which I do, too. But that's what Jimmy Butler is going to do. But Jimmy Butler is exactly the type of superstar you want to play alongside because he's so giving.

If you're James Harden.

No, that's not going to work out. That is that is not going to work out. Maybe I was thinking more Bradley Beal types, but yeah. James Harden, though, that's an interesting one. If we want to play the long game.

I'm curious when you say that Jimmy Butler is somebody who seems certifiable. I've heard the story told several times we had a bad experience on the radio with Jimmy Butler when he was with the Chicago Bulls. He came on to talk about a homeless project that he was handling. And I asked him, why are you with this cause is that something that was in your life? And it wasn't something that he wanted to answer. And after a couple of minutes, the interview was over.

But I've heard a couple of times now the story that his mother kicked him out of the house because he was ugly, that he was homeless and his mother kicked him out of the house because he was. Ugly, and if you're talking about how someone gets formed, if that story's true, like it seems, it seems like a made up story to God, it seems like something that somebody would say fictionally to explain why they have a chip on their shoulder about life or why why they're hissing and trying to prove something.

All this seems hard to process that a mom would do that to her child, right. It seems like nearly impossible.

It's been told so many times that it makes it has to be true.

Right like that, that Jimmy Butler was kicked out of his house, according to the true part is that that he was out of his home at 13 years old, having to move in with other people. The one that I have trouble like finding verified cooperation for is is the ugly part.

It might have been like it might be him doing that because he was too much to handle as a kid. And that's a better story that that protects him. Doesn't do wonders for his mother, though, like, do we know if she is still in here? It makes you the worst mom in the world.

I mean, it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad.

I don't know if she's still in his life, but I'm yeah, I'm fine. And nothing on the Internet that corroborates that. So I'm sorry. I don't know where you've heard that, though.

Oh, so you've seen nothing?

No, this is the first time I've heard that one in particular like that is the reasoning.

I'm seeing it in a couple of articles, but nothing like like reputable yet. Just a few articles that do reference a quote like that.

But but Butler told so I'm reading a story here from from the post game dotcom, OK, that is attributing a story to ESPN Dotcom, where Jimmy said she put him out on the streets because she didn't like the look of him. I also think he joined us to promote a cereal company. Well, you didn't want to get into it was Kellogg, but there was a homeless initiative and obviously that's a natural tie because it was a cause, a cause close to his heart, you would imagine.

And they got upset when we started asking about those questions and the the PR people put an end to it. It's unfortunate because I would love to have a good relationship with Jimmy Butler.

So I'm on the article now from ESPN, that column Chad Ford says, and it's a quote from Jimmy, I don't like the look of you. You got to go. Those were the last word. Jimmy Butler says he remembers his mother saying to him before, according to his recollection, she kicked him out of there. She kicked him out of the house. Well, that's pretty good.

Well, it was kicked him to the curb. And I had to I had tried. So I'm just midway obviously open to you. Did so, so graceful. Was terrible. Well, I'm glad we found that because that's obviously open to the interpretation that Dan had.

I would like the clumsy to please you please. That reminded me of I playing football football. Can we just cut that up and just replay it here in the next segment? We're going to do that coming up next.

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It's the formula. And so today is make fun of me day. Today is Dan is loud wrong day. Jimmy Butler has the game of his life. The best game at the most important time.

A 40 point triple, double third in NBA finals history. When when I said that he wasn't going to get to 40 points, he has a 40 point triple double in which he out rebounds, out assists and outpoint everyone on the court. He was he he basically gave you all the production by himself that add in LeBron did together two of the best players in the, you know, in the sport today and two of the best players we've ever seen.

And the way I'm going to pivot on this is just by making fun of Stewart and how he stumbled on whatever he was trying to say last segment. So let's listen to Stu.

Got the crowning jewel in the Stu Godse library of mispronunciations was him saying footfall foot call a foot foot of fall called.

That is foot fault. That is foot fault, foot call a foot foot fault.

So in its musical.

Right, like I feel like that is actually you spinning freestyle stuckert foot call a foot foot a fall called the virus.

So let's see. You're embarrassed today. You're embarrassed today. I said he couldn't do that and he did more. He didn't sleep. Let's see what it is that he was trying to say that Jimmy Butler can give you one of those games.

No, I feel better for a second. Well, let's see if you feel better after this.

According to his recollection, she kicked him out of the take out of the house. Oh, according to his recollection, she kicked him out of the app. According to his recollection, she kicked him out of the app.

You're going to be able to play that for me and he's going to have to get a house out of that.

According to his recollection, she kicked him out of the app. Right. If you just fall, he'll know it. If you play the entire sentence, you isolate just the house out of the app, out of the game, out of the app.

That is the rare Stu got losing confidence while he's inside it. Out of the App Store. Godse normally keeps the same voice inflection, same radio broadcast strength and confidence, no matter what's happening to them out of their app.

Unfortunately, we have not yet found something that top spot did. Do you the Jimmy Butler can give you one of those games?

No, what Shadforth wrote was kick him to the curb. I don't know.

I'm out of there.

I, I can't believe that I'm the one who said the thing. I can't believe that the Miami Heat find themselves in a position. For ten years, we have been chronicling this team and had people all around this team always saying the thing that outraged South Florida. And now I'm the one who said the thing.

Well, you could feel good and take some solace in this, at least for a day. People will forget about your Josh Allen take.

I love that Mike kind of gave you an out, too. He was just like, you know, I'm not that I expected I wouldn't put it past them, though. And you're like, yep, I would definitely putting it past. I did.

I put it past him. Then he stuck all of it at the clip that I nailed that.

How many free throw attempts? I think that's Dana's loud wrong part to maybe possibly.

That's the reason that I question what you guys are doing with Jimmy Butler is because it's not even like you can bank on a consistent jumper, like maybe Jimmy Butler can play a super aggressive game and get you twelve free throws or something. Maybe Jimmy Butler decides to go neck first into the paint and try to create stuff for their three point shooters. But I just don't know how you get the monster scoring game from a guy whose jumper you don't trust.

No, it's probably Danny's loud wrong part three.

I think I like Jimmy Butler as a player. I do not mean to disparage him when I say I don't think of him as a superstar. I think of him as an excellent basketball player. But if you ask me who's more likely to get thirty points tonight because they get hot from the perimeter, I've got a couple of guys on the team who aren't him that I would think of in terms of Tyler here, out there, and not just in terms of shooting.

They don't get. Robin jingoes nine for 10 from three, I'm not expecting four for six. If Jimmy Butler does erupt and give you the forty point game, it's because he's getting to the line 14 times.

Mike once again celebrating his sentence of getting it right. But that wasn't the clip that you were looking for.

Christy, I wouldn't put it past someone. Let me let me let's see if you, conversely, might have been the worst. Might sound still works without him being right.

I mean, LeBron James, an all time player, and Anthony Davis, pretty much a consensus top five player in the league. Yeah. And you're going after that with Jimmy Butler. That's pretty clearly not enough if Bam's not going to play at all.

All I'm saying is he is the superstar. Granted, he's not LeBron James. He has a career high of fifty three points for one night. You need Jimmy Butler to play like a superstar, but he's not that kind of superstar lineup.

But can he be for a night, I guess is what he's talking about. What are you talking about? What can he be for a night like? Are you talking about take thirty shots and and score 40 points. Jimmy Butler is not buying into the fact that this series is done. That's just not how he's cut. We all know that he sounds ridiculous. Now in interviews to the nation, I wouldn't put it past him because he's like literally the only option if Bama and Goran Dragic can go.

Have to put it past them, though, Mike, because that's why the kind of player that he is, especially on a team where he's going to be the primary option, where the Lakers, who have an exceptional defense, not not decent, it's an exceptional defense and they've got a legitimate rim protector. Explain to me how you guys have Jimmy Butler getting into that stratosphere when the shots are difficult to come by and they're going to be leaning toward him.

There are a couple of things here that are really funny about that. One saying, what, 40 points on thirty shots? I even got that wrong. It only took him twenty. Yeah, like, I even got that wrong. Holy smokes. He was good. He was unbelievable.

He was unbelievable. And then again, Jeff Van Gundy at the end of the game called it the greatest finals performance he's ever seen. Did he call it the greatest or among the greatest? I think he said it was the greatest individual finals performance he's ever seen.

You put it past him? I put it past him. And not only that, though, when I'm saying that, where is he going to get the easy points? He didn't have easy points.

Like it's not like the free one. It wasn't like but he had to go get those. Oh, yeah. And Rondo found the shit out of them, but it wasn't like you had a bunch of fast break dunks.

I think I remember one.

We had like two fast breaks and he passed out of it. Superstar player. I'm in on this type of crazy. I like it.

So it's no three's two got think about that. I mean it's no threes and it's not like he's got sixteen points in fastbreak transition baskets. It's all I got to go get it right in there where it's hard to get.

It was forty the hard way.

I mean it was, it was, it absolutely was. And he was super efficient and he created all these other assists as well like it was one of the best finals games we've ever seen.

Imagine if he was surrounded by, like, discernible talent outside of Kelly Olynyk. Well then he would have shot six times. He would have had twenty six, he wouldn't have shot very much because that's the kind of player that he is. I know it sounds like disparagement, but I, you know, he doesn't hog the ball. He doesn't have to do fourteen for twenty very often. But I guess I underestimated how much they would need him to initiate.

Everything is the only option.

And you underestimated the power of a Udonis has rah rah speech. Because when you take game two in that fourth that fourth quarter of game two and now game three, the Miami Heat are clearly the better team post Udonis Haslem speech.

They really listen to him as he screams at them. It is interesting to see the amount of respect extended to someone who doesn't play at all and is forty years old when he's screaming at them. You guys must.

That might have done this without me, but where are you guys calling for Haslem in game one or two? Just just to give those guys highlights.

You guys ran with that ridiculous thing in Bill Simmons agreed on the podcast.

I convinced them to. Gods went as a joke on the Simmons podcast and said, just start Udonis Haslem and have him go foul Anthony Davis six times with an intent to injure him. And Bill Simmons said that was a brilliant idea. I had a brilliant idea.

Or you could just stand there and wait for Anthony Davis to run into you. That will also work in terms of distorting the. I'd be so mad at Anthony Davis if I was LeBron James today who got like that, that was a useless performance out of him.

Like, that guy can't disappear like that.

I felt like that's what his late game exit was like, his message. Do I feel like that was him telling Anthony Davis, hey, you played like shit. Night and like that, I feel like that's who he was talking to, right, but LeBron led, you know, a Lakers team led by LeBron without Anthony Davis wasn't very good last year. I mean, now with Anthony Davis is the reason LeBron has another chance at winning a title when a very good chance at winning a title.

LeBron was not healthy last year like there was the groin injury. They understand we're like a three or four seed and then the 16 games he missed with a groin injury. And then he came back trying to get them to the playoffs.

And he wasn't he wasn't healthy, but he said game winning shots in big spots. Anthony Davis, he's played great. I'm just saying the Lakers are not here without Anthony.

Do you know Anthony Davis wasn't on the Lakers last year, right? Yeah, yes. I don't know. The Lakers weren't in the finals last year as well.

The way you said it made it seem like Anthony Davis was the centerpiece of the team while LeBron James was out hurt.

No, I'm just saying LeBron could be angry with a D for how he played last night. But LeBron is not sitting here with this great opportunity, if not for Anthony Davis. That's all I'm saying is very true. Yes, very true. But boy, Stewy.

But Anthony Davis, you're doing just fine. Don't worry about it. Don't let the naysayers motivate you. Dan, you're doing it wrong again. OK, do it.

Teach me Billy again. I'm sorry. I need I need a lesson because I'm clearly not very good at this. Help me.

Anthony Davis did fine. You know, everybody has an off game. He'll be all right. Don't worry about that. Where Jimmy Butler, on the other hand. My goodness gracious. That's never going to happen again. Lightning in a bottle. That's what they got, a shooting star. That's what they saw yesterday. And Star, I think we're using that term loosely, right, with Jimmy Buckets. How many teams has he been on? No one wants to play with him.

It's clear as day no one wants him on their team. No way he could do this again. No chance this could ever be repeated. He will never get 50 in the game, much less forty.

Now, we need that in your voice. OK, I just repeat that. Yes. Just say it one time today that there's no way Jimmy Butler can ever do that. He will not repeat that performance ever again.

Jimmy Butler got lucky. Bad, that's the bulletin board material, he got lucky. He'll never do it again, he'll never do it again.

Thank you. All right, send that up. He would again physically cannot do it again. He physically cannot do it again.

If he has to keep playing 40 minutes, probably not a.