Butler, the assassin with the killer origin story, is the Heat's X-Factor. In Nurse, the Sixers have one who was there at the beginning.
Scouting Jimmy Butler in the regular season is like scouting the Wildwood boardwalk on a Tuesday in mid-December. You best not base your plans on either.“I think you are foolish to sit there and look at any of his numbers from the regular season and see what you are gleaning from that,” Nurse said on Tuesday afternoon as the Sixers prepared to square off against Butler and the Miami Heat in a game that could shape the course of the Eastern Conference postseason.
We forget that he was coming off a first-round series against the Nets in which he averaged 15.8 points per game. We forget all of that because of what we remember, because of what we saw out of Butler in that second-round series against the Raptors. Nurse saw it, too. And he struggled to stop it. “Obviously, you and I know that he has a lot different numbers in the regular season versus the playoffs,” Nurse said. “His attempts, his time with the ball, his three-pointers ... everything goes up with him. You can sum it up simply by saying he becomes a lot more aggressive scorer.”The Sixers are in the NBA’s play-in tournament for the first time. Here’s everything to know.
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