"This league is very humbling, it's fragile. And just as soon as, think you’re good and you’re high on yourself, you get hit like this. I don’t think that we should have lost this game. We did. We say yeah, we learn from it, we go to the drawing board. But I’m hoping this is the last time that it happens, but I can’t guarantee that.”

That's a very impressive statement by Jimmy Butler after last night's blown game against Washington. "We did": just two words. No excuses, just reality. We lost a game we shouldn't have. Realistic about the future, too: "I can't guarantee that." That's what I want to hear from him, no bullshit, "we'll learn from it," just reality, unacceptable--but it could happen again. Jimmy has a realistic, accurate handle on this team. He was speaking about the league but "it's fragile" is my take on this team. That pushes the "lingering suspicion" I wrote about last night out of my mind entirely. It is not Jimmy Butler's fault, these blown leads, the perfectly circumscribed one quarter-long collapses. It's not Jimmy.