Tobin presents footage of Jimmy Butler's comments Friday night after his first game back from suspension.
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00:00Pete, they take on the Portland trailblazers tonight at the Casillas center.
00:05Seven 30 is your tip off as the Miami heat will look to keep it going before they head
00:11out on the road.
00:12They got the bucks this week.
00:13Leroy got a matchup with the Greek freak on Thursday on national television.
00:17Should be interesting.
00:18Leroy first time.
00:19If, uh, you know, unless, you know, you never know if stuff goes to hell tonight.
00:24But if, uh, Jimmy Butler, if everything, let's just say goes the same as last game.
00:28First time, Jimmy Butler will play a road game in over a month on Thursday, obviously
00:33with a team.
00:34He probably planned it that way.
00:35Maybe, you know, if I had a fool, I could stay home for a month.
00:38Well, that's kind of the irony.
00:40You play Portland tonight and then Milwaukee on Thursday.
00:43Sure.
00:44Yeah.
00:45You think somebody in the NBA office was like, let's just play.
00:48You mean, so you mean Tobin's making the schedule as a petty scheduler?
00:54You know, forget you, Cronan.
00:55I'm gonna get you tonight.
00:56And then, you know what day I'm going to go to Milwaukee, I'm going to get you again.
01:01Then probably the perfect spot for Jimmy to go on the road.
01:04Oh, well, the, the, the bucks have been hanging around these rooms.
01:08Like it feels like, you know, the bucks are kind of hanging around the water cooler, seeing
01:12like what the gossip is.
01:13You know, like, I don't know if they're in the Jimmy Butler or they're going to take
01:17on Bradley Beal, but it seems like the bucks want in on action.
01:20It's been interesting because I think Jimmy's like thinking to himself, who's got to keep
01:24their star happy.
01:26You know?
01:27So you bring me in Yonis, maybe he sticks around a little more.
01:32Does it make as much of a stink KD who's Milwaukee going to give up?
01:36Well, they have to get under the second apron because they can't aggregate because otherwise
01:39they'd have to give up Dame, which I'm obviously Damon Tyler.
01:47We told time.
01:48Wow.
01:50Wow.
01:51Here we go again.
01:56We go again.
01:57Dude.
01:58It's like, I can't, I can't take you to the store.
02:02What?
02:03Just to window shop.
02:04What?
02:05What do you mean?
02:06He's like a neutered dog.
02:07Every, every time a game comes on, dude, did you watch the game last night?
02:12I want them right now.
02:15I don't want anybody right now.
02:16I just want all the time.
02:18And then Jimmy Butler said these things on Friday.
02:19So is that Friday's game?
02:20Right?
02:21Very odd game.
02:22Very odd.
02:23Did you ask a question?
02:24It's just uncomfortable.
02:25Wait, wait, wait, wait.
02:26Yeah.
02:27We talk about, we send him to the game.
02:29He probably should keep it shut.
02:31Oh, I'm too scared.
02:32Let me ask you, were you okay?
02:33Were you afraid to ask a question?
02:35Here's the thing.
02:36It was a very crowded locker room because, you know, extra people there.
02:39Oh my God.
02:40It was a very crowded locker room.
02:41I had bad positioning.
02:43You know, it was, uh, it was one of these things.
02:44So no, I didn't ask a question.
02:45I thought it was in this, uh, in this spot, but also I'm terrified because you guys have
02:50made it seem like I'm the match.
02:53You know what?
02:54You made it seem like I'm heat kerosene.
02:56We just reading them leaves.
02:57Right.
02:58Well, Manso asked a lot of questions though.
03:00He works for the team.
03:01Yeah.
03:02But he also, like he was given, he was, was he asking, uh, heat friendly questions?
03:07No.
03:08He was asking about the whole thing.
03:09Oh, he was asking WPLG channel.
03:10I don't know.
03:11I don't know who he was, who he's boots on the ground for that day.
03:12I'm not really sure.
03:13I don't really remember.
03:14He does the halftime.
03:15No, he works.
03:16Some games, some games, he does every road game.
03:20I know that.
03:21But yeah, but some, he still does the, with, with coach, right?
03:23Doesn't he do it with, uh, he does, but sometimes it's Kelly Sacco.
03:26Sometimes it's Derek.
03:27Oh, okay.
03:28Like at the home games, they rotate.
03:29I'll ask Will if he was on there, but either way, Jimmy had this really weird answer for
03:33one of them.
03:34Weird.
03:35Cause he's like, the way he looked at you wasn't weird.
03:39He comes out and he goes, he's like, the whole truth will come out.
03:44Yeah.
03:45It's saying that, yo, you know what?
03:47He was taught.
03:48Yes.
03:49He, you know what?
03:50He was being a good soldier.
03:51The truth will come out.
03:53No comment.
03:54I was told not to say, but like, what does that mean?
03:56The whole truth.
03:57I was told not to say anything.
03:59First of all, when have you ever known Jimmy Jim baller who, who announced on a press release
04:10I'm back.
04:11And then he wore the Jordan four or five.
04:13Yeah.
04:14That was, yeah.
04:15Now, if you know the, the, the significance of that, that's when he went to, um, no, that's
04:20when he came back and no, Jay-Z has a line in one of his songs and I come back wearing
04:26the four or five.
04:27It didn't play games with you.
04:29It's the aim at you.
04:32Jay-Z did say that.
04:33Yeah.
04:34Yeah.
04:35You blow, I blow you to smithereens.
04:36If you owe me money, like I'll blow you to smithereens.
04:40So that's, that's, I just found that very ironic.
04:44Well, you would afford it.
04:45I would say though, if you're going to wear the 45, like, you know, you should not give
04:49a little bit more than 18, whatever, you know, just say, but anyway, here's the thing.
04:53Here's my, here's what I'm not questioning how good Jimmy has been, right.
05:03But here's what I want.
05:07If I'm going to pay a guy 50, 60 million, there's a certain level of expectations I
05:13need, right?
05:16I'm tired of watching this team score 80 points every five nights.
05:22I need a guy that's going to go and get me buckets.
05:26And Jimmy has always been a guy that picks and chooses when he does that to the point
05:31where you wonder where, what is he thinking about?
05:36Like you see parts of some of these games, you go, well, Jimmy, if you don't score, can't
05:39you see nobody else is going to score and he, he just won't.
05:43And that's what I've always.
05:45And that's what kind of has led me down a path of like, all right, then he's out for
05:51whatever reason.
05:52He doesn't want to be that guy because everybody else who has a Jimmy Butler or what we say
05:58Jimmy Butler is right.
06:00That guy getting you 25 to 30 plus every night.
06:04And then you were about the other guy has never scored 40 in the regular season for
06:06the right.
06:07So, so how do we, so how, how do you, you want to pay him and make him that guy?
06:15How is he really helping your shortcomings, which is at times third quarter?
06:25I mean, they've had more, well, that's why I don't buy any of the whole, I don't like
06:29my role.
06:30I don't like the role.
06:32You've wanted somebody to carry the offensive load forever.
06:34Tyler hero has done that this year.
06:36Like, shouldn't you be happy with this?
06:39This is exactly what you want.
06:41Have a guy carry for the regular season and you know, you'll pick your spots, you'll pick
06:44your games and then turn it on in the playoffs.
06:47Who does that?
06:48Who else does that?
06:49Why?
06:50Like, is that like, Oh, I heard he barely plays, but I'm saying think of where you have to
06:57go for another guy in the NBA that does picks his spots.
07:02You know, when you pick your spots, when you're old, because everybody else bringing it every
07:07night.
07:08So like, I don't look, he's a great player, but he's also a very interesting player.
07:14Like he's not your traditional, get your buckets, everything he does.
07:17Like for his whole career, he's done a lot of things that are just very smart as a basketball
07:22player that do contribute to win, but they usually result in averaging 25, 20, 25 points.
07:27I understand.
07:28He's not like those guys.
07:29Okay.
07:30Like I'm saying, even with Jimmy, Jimmy's always averaged 20 plus 25 points.
07:35Uh, no, he's not yet, but 2022, he's more like a, he's more like a 21.
07:41I know.
07:42I know.
07:43But, but, but here I'm gonna say about Jimmy, the same thing I said about Lamar, right?
07:50Both are great players, but as a leader of your team, you have to be aware of the circumstance
07:57and the situations going on.
07:59Sure.
08:00And all those times when it was ruts during, during the course of the heat, whenever that
08:06meant last two or three years, when they've been ruts, when you were playing, let's go
08:11there.
08:12Okay.
08:13Everybody's relying on you.
08:16They are paying you to be that guy that either gets it going or be that score when nobody
08:23else is scoring and to not be that aware of it.
08:27And then have a team score 80 points and Jimmy only took eight shots.
08:31It's a weird look.
08:33I understand like the, the names that he's going to go, like he wants to get to a place
08:36that's going to pay him.
08:37But like, if you really did stack up Ross for roster, it's like, okay, yes, you're going
08:40to go play with Kevin Durant and Devin Booker.
08:42Cool.
08:43What the hell's the rest of the roster look like right now?
08:45Whereas as you have a history, you do seem like you have Tyler heroes on the brink of
08:49an all-star season.
08:51If you were just, and then you look at, Hey, maybe I have two, two really, really exciting
08:57young players who can be actually contributing in Jovich and where I believe this.
09:02If Jimmy was Jimmy of two years ago, and he was that engaged where Tyler Kalel, Pella,
09:10Pella, uh, Jaime and, and, and, uh, Jovich are right where all these guys are.
09:18If he was engaged, like he was two years ago, this team is better than a playing team.
09:23I believe that with everything, especially with the size that they've added to this roster.
09:29However, it seems like whenever Jimmy's in the game, people are uncomfortable to be
09:34themselves.
09:34Certainly the first game.
09:35And that was the case, right?
09:36Like they don't know what to do because they're so used to Jimmy being the guy.
09:40So, well, and also now you're in this weird spot where it's not, see, this is the thing
09:44that's, and that's the whole thing about the, that's weird about the role thing is like
09:48Jimmy, for whatever you say, like, I do feel like he knew there were times where he didn't
09:52know when to lay back and he didn't know when to turn it on.
09:55And right now it feels like it's almost like intentionally laying back and he doesn't want
10:00to get involved because he doesn't want to like crank it up for this team right now.
10:05So that's the other thing that they have to deal with.
10:06And then it is awkward because it's like, you almost have to spoonfeed them to make
10:09him, uh, active with all this stuff.
10:11Cause he'll, he'll be more than willing right now to defer because he doesn't want to go
10:16full tilt for the heat because they're not paying them well, even though they are not
10:19paying him two years from exactly.