The other though is that he is also not the scrub off the bench who the other team doesn’t know and is overlooked. Occasionally you see one of those killer scrubs go off and then disappear. A flash-in-the-pan.
No, Jimmy Butler is not that. Neither of those things. Jimmy IS the Miami “Heat” to opponents. Good enough that you do everything you can to stop him because you know that if you do you stop the “Heat.” Not great that playing him is like putting a six-shot to your head and hoping when the trigger gets pulled you get a blank. Not Michael Jordan and not Duncan Robinson. Those are the parameters that define Jimmy Butler and his 56 as a performance that will be remembered “For the rest of time.”
