Dwyane Wade is very critical of Jimmy Butler and his performance in the Warriors' second round loss.
Wade (a podcast episode recorded before the Warriors lost Game 4 but was eliminated), exploded Butler's Game 4 performance when comparing Butler's Game 4 performance with his 2023 NBA Finals with the Heat.
“I don't like the way he just got close to the game,” Wade said. Timeout with Dwyane Wade on WY network. “I know Jimmy is the first passer. I know he's going to get his teammates to get the ball and want to see them glow. But this is…this is…this doesn't work. You have to go. You have to go. He won't look at the basket, I've seen this before. [Riley] Come out, Pat said, “We don’t want to expand for you,” and that’s not always because of injury. Sometimes, “I need to see what you are going to do at every moment, not just for a moment.”
“We saw Jimmy in the bubble. He was a dog. I also saw Jimmy against the Nuggets in Denver in another final, and he did the exact same thing he did the night before. He didn't look at the basket. I don't want to see the basketball. I don't care, if you don't shoot, that's not.
As we know, the Warriors continued to drop Game 5 without Curry, while Butler shot only 11 shots and scored 17 points.
Jimmy has a hard time criticizing Jimmy because he is dealing with obvious illness and his setbacks after his first difficult fall.
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