2020 NBA Bubble Ball Finals: Lakers vs Heat - Who You Got?

biggest gambling outright win upset in the finals since iverson took game 1 from shaq

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jimmy butler fan club

Jimmy Butler says beating grown men as teen, not NBA Finals Game 3, his best game https://t.co/nocUXe3eSO

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) October 6, 2020

i have at times been critical of jimmy as a player but he's an amazing character and i love him for keeping it real

agree it’s “good for the league” that he’s in a place where his personality is relevant. he’s hysterical

that's a good way to put it ... where his personality is relevant. Silver should make a law that Jimmy can't leave Miami.

he was incredible last night. telling LeBron "you in trouble" after Bron said it to him is classic.

According to Elias Sports, Butler scored or assisted on 73 points Sunday and that’s tied for the second-most in a Finals game in NBA history behind only Walt Frazier’s 74 points.

Heat announce Bam Adebayo is replacing Kelly Olynyk in the starting lineup tonight.

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) October 7, 2020

downgrade wow

lol

free jelly k!!!

feeling for dragic

Goran is a warrior. He’s clearly trying as much as he can to play. pic.twitter.com/HKezEM3k2K

— Will Manso (@WillManso) October 6, 2020

aww damn

got a torn up foot bro nothin u can do

get that man a bionic leg and some floss

feel for goran. he's someone who you want to see in big games.

refs happy for the lakers to be very physical here early

heat missing dragic tonight, they need the offense badly

iguodala's unwillingness to try a contested layup is immensely frustrating

outside of a few threes, nunn’s minutes have been pretty brutal tonight. in game 3 jimmy’s transcendence covered for dragic’s absence but tonight it’s pretty glaring. spo needs to go with herro and robinson for basically the rest of the game

KCP giving rich paul huge minutes tonight

the lakers grinding one out is possibly the least satisfying result

heat just couldn’t score in the half court tonight w/o jimmy being superman. basically were running every possession at the end thru herro and robinson coming off screens

Jimmy was way too passive tonight. Tons of over passing by the whole team. Otm dragic would’ve helped so much.

Kcp has been really good

putting AD on jimmy was a nice move by vogel, i think it had jimmy psyched out. he can get to the rim/line consistently vs everyone else on the lakers (including lebron) but AD forces him to shoot which he doesn't really want to do. in game 3 they were putting davis on olynyk/leonard and the heat were just murdering them. but still jimmy wasn't really looking for his shot even into the fourth which was weird... he could've picked spots in the midrange and pulled up confidently if he wanted to but he just... didn't. prob should've got bam more involved in the offense if AD was on jimmy but it's a lot to fold into the gameplan on the fly. dragic was the heat's offensive closer all year, even into the bucks series, and it was really felt in this one

jimmy hitting another marker of star status tho in that watching it live it felt like he was weirdly passive and absent all night in a very crucial game and then you look at the stat line and he put up 22-10-9 w/ 3 steals and a block on 8-17 shooting. a truly vintage lebron-esque performance in its own way

yah but he started like 5-5 so he was pretty bad from that point on. it was aesthetics tho, like he was happy to pass to nunn and watch him dribble around a shoot a contested shot on too many occasions in the 2nd half. i love jimmy but he needed to be the player he was in game 3 for them to win. sometimes you just gotta hoist.. or at least shoot when your open which he was a lot tonight.

Miami not rolling over

Oh fuck! AD down

looks like a non-contact back of leg injury

Immediately thought achilles but he’s walking now

could be just one of those weird tweaks he always gets

re-aggregation of his heel bruise. yeah, he's always nicked up.

it’s like the 20th most important thing happening in this series but danny green’s minutes have been appalling

he’s been a dumpster fire the whole playoffs!

aside from dragic being out two other things hurting the heat this series are crowded turning into a pumpkin on offense and bam playing like C-grade games. everyone else has mostly played at expectation i think

crowder*

have to think bam is being impacted by the mysterious neck/shoulder injury

yeah... and also facing prob the best big in the NBA. but he hasn’t really been a focal point of the offense even as a distributor like he normally is and tonight is missing stuff at the rim, he just looks off

his offensive skills have been overhyped imo

it’s like the 20th most important thing happening in this series but danny green’s minutes have been appalling

― J0rdan S., Friday, October 9, 2020 9:56 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he’s been a dumpster fire the whole playoffs!

― k3vin k., Friday, October 9, 2020 9:57 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

classic weirdly over rated role player who just happened to be hanging around multiple contenders

gotta admire miami's moxy

Heat could use Robinson hitting 3s at his reg season pace. Everyone of his misses is points the other way. Lakers D on him has been v good.

playoffs is like that

robinson has been good to me considering ppl thought he might be run off the floor in the playoffs... he’s gonna be at a physical disadvantage vs grown ass teams but has mostly held up

bam might be the second best passing big in the league and does stuff in transition i feel like i only otherwise see out of giannis. he’s lacking the outside shooting you see from jokic and AD but is a very good free throw shooter and has gotten good from the mid range. just hasn’t been able to lock into this series really

dwight a bitch

how was he not ejected for that with one tech already on him

heat may wanna consider not letting lebron shoot wide open threes