We continue to hear Jimmy Butler postgame, has he and his teammates moved past the drama? Is there still some animosity?
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00:00but last night in the association the Cavaliers kicked the snot out of the Phoenix Suns 118.92
00:10in that game Bradley Beal had five points they dropped to 21 and 21.
00:16Are they there in the plan right now?
00:19I believe they're out of the plan right now. Yeah, because the west they don't they have those
00:22a little bit more it's a little bit more uh respectable records in the bottom of the west
00:27than it is the east right now okay but uh yeah they oh they're they're they are tied right now
00:35they are they have the the tiebreaker over golden state but they are both 21 and 21.
00:41Minnesota's really falling off this year they're 22 and 21.
00:45Kings have been kind of real uh oh so in other words they got big frenchied yep
00:51By the way I want an apology from Leroy for what oh oh wait for what so agenting
01:01is a word oh I will I will apologize but here's why I won't
01:11because he thought he made it up the world well you know he thought he made up oh crap
01:16it's a real word it's a real word so so I can't let you just be all willy nilly with the English
01:23language but wait a minute okay first of all I did not know what the word was right word is I
01:28just thought you know how we just make up you say a word and you know like charger or chargering
01:32be kind of you just kind of know what it is so that's why I was saying you know the agent's gonna
01:37the agent's gonna agenting come to find out agenting is a word and it means
01:43business as an agent for another person or entity so I was right
01:50kind of kind of kind of you you use you use the English language at Liberty
01:56without knowing if it was a word I'm apologize I'm apologize because I said it wasn't a word
02:04and it is and Liberty's but I'm not apologizing to you because your ass was guessing anyway
02:10Liberty is justice and right and I was justified in using that word did you know it was a word
02:17did I know it was a word no but did I know did I know the definition of the word
02:23yes reminds me of when Robert Hunt scored the touchdown that he knew that he didn't
02:27know
02:34here's a little bit more Jimmy Butler uh frosty as hell on the fries but uh he said he has no
02:40beef with his teammates Jimmy last time we spoke to you you said you didn't know if you'd be able
02:45to find your joy you keep playing here has anything changed in the interim and do you
02:49think coming back and getting back out on the court that could potentially change or are you
02:54still the same feeling that you told us two weeks ago I was told to say no comments or no comment
03:02I've been hooping I know but in a game today oh it felt good yeah no I actually hooped I played
03:08five and five um it felt good to get out there and compete uh and actually run around with these
03:14guys you know as much as everybody may think I don't got a problem with these guys these guys are
03:19recruited my friends some of them tapped in some of y'all didn't don't think I don't know that
03:24uh I don't my beef not with them and never will be never has been um but it did feel good to get
03:31out there and play some basketball I mean he was he sounded like that part of it was real
03:39while making his point you know what I mean like I I'm gonna tell you this like I
03:49I never know how to handle situations like this as a teammate
03:53right so when Eric got traded right I was like somebody called me and told me
04:02but I was like should I call Eric I don't really you know know with like the cell phone thing
04:09wasn't you know as big now it cost you like you just hit a text yeah it cost you like a dollar a
04:14minute so too expensive yeah so wishing you well so my send him a letter so my thing was I didn't
04:21know how to go about it since somebody called me at eight in the morning and let me know you know
04:27and and you know the media has a way with asking things like they won't ask hey you're sorry see
04:34your boy go because y'all live right next to each other for the last four years did a lot of stuff
04:39together whatever no they say now that you're the guy like the questioning so it was always
04:47an awkward situation but truly though like if I'm a teammate right right and you've now had this bleed
04:55into your job which is supposed to be playing professional basketball am I supposed to be like
05:02hey good for you man no matter what you know you do you like if I'm a teammate I'm gonna be like
05:06you really thought this wasn't gonna happen so like I have a sympathy for this there there's
05:12there's a rule and a lot of coaches will say this every at the start of every season
05:20right once you come into this room leave your egos at the door this is not about you and the
05:29organization this is about not about you and the coach this is about learning to play with one
05:35another that's what camp is learning about one another learning how to go to battle with one
05:40another learning how to play with one another trying to get a good fit with quarterbacks
05:46receivers running backs offensive linemen defense and so forth and so on so if you come in there
05:54with a different agenda usually somebody else will call you out on it no matter who you are
06:03um and it becomes harder in football to do something like that because there's so many
06:09moving parts um because as a wide receiver if you complain about not playing and you don't go
06:16out there and ball the quarterback and just throw it to somebody else kenda says is jimmy ball the
06:20highest paid player on the team only by 15 million dollars this season so i i don't i don't know how
06:29when he he kind of says i got no beef with the guys in the locker room while saying i have a beef
06:38with guys who didn't basically have my back or whatever i don't know how you how you do that
06:43gerald says but spo and pat are perfect guys yeah listen i'm not i'm not nobody no see and here's
06:51here's the problem okay you can make it about spo and pat and jimmy but when it's time to play
07:01basketball the only people that are affected by this are the other guys on on the court well
07:07that's the thing that's been like and that's the hard that's all i'm trying to say is that
07:11jimmy got to make good with them this ain't got nothing to do with pat nothing to do with spo
07:16when it gets down to it those guys need to feel that you're gonna go out there and do what you
07:22need to do otherwise it makes everything an uncomfortable situation which is where we are
07:29yeah and the other thing is like you're doing some you're you're pulling methods and doing
07:36whatever you have to do to get out of here because you feel some type of way about how
07:41pat riley handled the end of last year which i agree i don't like that he said
07:46to keep your mouth shut part right you know i don't even know you asked the question but i
07:50wasn't expecting that answer all right hold on silly sauce ask questions in a way that promotes
07:56silly sauce whatever dude really the point is so you was just asking was it too much was it too
08:02much sure but like you're gonna you're gonna believe this whole thing of like oh eric spolster
08:07was calling he was setting up the team to to freeze out jimmy butler it's like come on dude like for
08:15like that's what that's what you're really gonna buy into that that that the team was trying to
08:20freeze out jimmy butler for what why would they want to do that why not just trade him in the
08:26offseason if that was the case like they had already made their stand of perfect analogy smithen
08:33you just doused the heat house with gasoline and then don't know why it burned down that's fair
08:38it's not fair he doesn't like how the house burned see here's the here's the thing if you
08:44had a problem with you know these situations remember zoe had it well uh member uh d wade
08:53any superstar but here's the one thing they didn't do they did never not play
09:03maybe a little lebron in that 2014 finals no no no no no no dude no no no no no no no no no no no
09:10no kind of did yeah and all of a sudden by the way i had cramps time out time out that was game
09:16rams that was game one that was game one go watch game three and four dude like he was
09:20stat patting like a mother bleeper because the whole team stunk like peppy lapew interesting
09:27the only guy that did anything wait basically you're complaining about what lebron did
09:33but you do realize if jimmy would take some of that control that the team would be better
09:39so when the team is struggling if he would go out and get his that the team would have a doubt that
09:44jimmy butler when the team has been struggling or missing pieces like jimmy butler in the play
09:48in the playoffs has been tremendous like he is how long ago was that a couple years ago i'm not
09:52but a couple of years ago you're acting like no but we go how far back you're gonna go
09:57before it's like to do with anything because as you get older things change okay but you keep
10:02going back a couple of years ago you're acting like jimmy butler's never no i never said that
10:07don't don't say i'm acting like don't say i'm acting like i'll tell you exactly how i'm acting
10:15because i'm telling you that was a couple years ago as you get older you can't turn it on and off
10:23like you want to so when you say oh he did a couple years ago in the playoffs well he tried
10:30to do it last year and it didn't quite work out cruise control okay i mean and you think you can
10:35do that at 35 no you can't no no but you're missing my point i'm telling you lebron you just
10:40said i'm accusing him with 2014 finals i'm telling you look you see what he did south park how far
10:45he goes back no i hate what you just said nobody's ever done i really hate that 2014 finals i hate
10:51when people take shot at the 2014 finals because dwayne wade was a shell of himself his knees were
10:59chris bosh was not the same player chris bosh won the only one the only game in that series
11:04are you kidding me lebron won game two for you guys what's chris bosh bang
11:1128 8 and 8 57 from the field 48 from three point line led the series in
11:20all me every stat and quivered anytime kawaii leonard came in the game
11:24no he realized on the tape he all realized yeah i don't have anybody my boy he's on
11:29shot legs i don't well you know what see we can all look at sports and come up with a home years
11:35ago i'm sure dwayne wade looked around and be like i can't believe what he's doing hey that's
11:39not gary payton dude it's not the glove anytime you want to go eight points eight points lebron
11:48all right hey why why he's still bit about last week when the lakers beat the heat that's why
11:55he's just too old he is too old what he's still doing that at that age
12:04it's what we call an anomaly did you uh have you ever seen the meme that uh somebody did put 10
12:10years ago yo lebron's turning 30 this effort is gonna stop soon yeah and then he had to put a post
12:17yo lebron is 40 40 now this effort is gonna stop soon and i'm like how long are you gonna
12:22keep on putting that to what 50 hey listen j.j retic don't lose to the most like say lebron
12:28needs to take a nap no he doesn't know he's not taking a nap he's not taking it timbo timbo's
12:33so spot on but j.j retic hey j.j don't lose to the wizards like this don't lose to the wizards
12:41so like yeah man like i i get it i just but what you saying like he's saying lebron didn't have
12:49anybody else so he was the leading scorer rebounder and assist guy right i'm like that's
12:56what i think i want jimmy to be when he sees that how a game is being played out and you go oh he's
13:03coasting until the playoffs but no no like like i need you to be the guy i understand and so you it
13:12so well now is that do it no now we're not talking about now but we've had this conversation
13:18before now and you would say oh oh play off jimmy oh the j where jimmy was right one year i was
13:24wrong but you can't pay a guy for that you need to know every night that that's gonna be the guy
13:32and that you can count on him for knowing when to do that stuff when you say oh well don't worry
13:39he'll be jimmy and jay where oh don't worry no but i'm just saying we've been doing this for three
13:44years two two i'm not counting out of the player i'm not counting this year out of the player one
13:52was incredible one yeah but you guys that's an anomaly fairness though he didn't get to play
13:56that game that was an anomaly an anomaly you understand that right to be the eighth seed
14:02and be able to go to the finals is it an anomaly yes it is if he's beating yannis multiple times
14:07is it an anomaly each year is different and yes if you're the eighth seed and you go to the five
14:13but there were an eight it's an anomaly okay but there were an eight seed that was two games out
14:17of being the force that don't matter it does it still counts as being an 18 it's just but you
14:21got and if jimmy would have played more games there would have been a 2c okay fine but but
14:26what i'm saying is this that's the guy you need or you depend on to be out of that stuff i agree
14:34and that's the guy if he plays 10 more games you're not even in the play-in but you keep
14:40telling me what he could do if he does this and i'm like okay but they're paying him to do that
14:48they're paying him not to be to turn it on so they're not in the play-in he bit he believed
14:53too much in his mythology last year and that put him in the end i did you too i did but admitted
14:59but you you we had these same arguments two years ago and he made me look like a genius last year
15:04yeah because it look being an eighth seed and going to the finals is an anomaly i don't care
15:11what you say it is i don't care how far you are from okay again it's an anomaly it never happens
15:16okay but again put the context into it because yeah they lost a play-in game which kicked them
15:22down like in a regular year they would have been the seven seed okay and it was like a two-game
15:27difference between that and the four seed i don't care about that they are what they were okay like
15:31you say oh my game but you're making it seem like they were under 500 no i don't know i'm not
15:37we just because i say they were in the play-in i didn't give a crap what their record was they
15:42were still in the play-in the play-in is the play-in not oh two games away again the very
15:47next year the the very next say that if you're in the play you need the context the plan no you don't
15:53you do why because if you're in the play not all the players are equal
16:00see this is what see vlad this is where he goes when he realizes that he sounds crazy right
16:08that he goes to silly sauce and then he tries to make me mad oh yeah he's gonna go it could be
16:13something yeah nothing you know not all plans look alike sure they know but here's what all
16:18plans look like down here and i'm telling you if i'm in the heat organization this is how i look
16:23at all players if at any one of those times jimmy had played five or six more games we wouldn't be
16:29in this situation had more wins so how am i gonna pay him two years from now if we're still hoping
16:34that he can play enough games so we're not in the damn play it they had more wins last year than
16:38they did the year that they went to the finals every year is different dude no you just every
16:42year is different but you just told me the planes the playing yeah you just told me that the plans
16:46they had more wins last year but last year this year they did pull it off just like in football
16:52sometimes 11 and 5 would get you in the playoffs and other times it didn't ask the patriots
16:58no i'm not i mean 14 and 3 can get you a number one so you know you can get your walk right that's
17:03what i'm saying every year is different you just told me to play playing no i'm i'm saying if you
17:09qualify for the play and you're in a play and i don't you need to walk like you're trying to say
17:14i i get where you're coming from
17:17or you have to have context on the play no the plan is the plan
17:21wait if you listen if you start the season if you start this season and you end up in the plan
17:28i don't give a crap what your record is this year you qualify for the play okay you can't say oh but
17:33we had more wins than last year you know what if a team you didn't like use that as an excuse
17:39you would like them on fire but if they go in advance what's the difference like every season
17:44is different right every season is different this year 11 and 6 may qualify for something
17:56next year that same record may win you the division like every year is independent
18:02your box didn't do it i'm not boxed in why are you telling me oh but so i could say this oh but
18:10two years ago they had a better record than they have now but they were in the play no this year
18:16is this year it might take more to qualify for the plan than it did in years past because all
18:24the other teams are getting better what i'm saying is is that each year you qualify for
18:29what you qualify for the record speaks for itself okay but the record was better last year
18:34what does that have to do with because you're saying what does last year have to do with this
18:37year because you're saying the plan is the plan and one year the play and they made it to the
18:41finals in one year they got bounced but you still qualify for the play in a better record last i
18:46don't care it's just a made-up thing the record doesn't matter adam your record qualifies you
18:52for where you are in the playoffs so if they don't make the plan this year and they have the
18:59same record as they did last year you think they're a better team what do you mean do i think
19:03i'm saying let's say the heat let's say that he got you let's say he got finished with 45 wins
19:09they finished 45 wins but there are six seed yeah is that a better season yeah why because
19:14they qualified higher competition was worse no they qualify that's kind of silly isn't it no it's not
19:19every year is independent every playoff season is independent so i guess here i give you one here's
19:25one better for you all right we gotta go to break no would florida state qualify for the playoffs
19:29this year probably why because there are more teams they were undefeated there are more teams so what
19:35the more teams available there's more spots oh but they would qualify every year is different
19:41but this year would have been different than last year because there's more spots all right