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Josh Hart’s best defensive matchup of the season? Jimmy Butler. In the 106 possessions that Josh Hart guarded Jimmy, he scored 21 points on 6-22 shooting (27.3%). Funny enough, this is also Jimmy’s worst offensive matchup of the season.

  • April 28, 2023


Josh Hart’s best defensive matchup of the season? Jimmy Butler. In the 106 possessions that Josh Hart guarded Jimmy, he scored 21 points on 6-22 shooting (27.3%). Funny enough, this is also Jimmy’s worst offensive matchup of the season.

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  2. Word this is a great statistic but it does nothing for since the playoffs are all about momentum

  4. Playoff Jimmy is different but Thibs ain’t Budenholzer, we’re not just gonna sit in drop coverage over and over against him and not double team him. This series is should be a hell of a chess match between Thibs and Spo

  5. Grimes and Hart alternating in Butler will give them fits

    Heat aren’t that good at rebounding so with Mitch we may end up seeing lots of 2nd opportunities again

  7. I think Jimmy is gonna get his but I think we’re gonna have success in similar ways we had success against the Cavs. We’ll see

  9. Playoff Jimmy is on a whole other level but the Knicks can throw different people at them when the Bucks couldn’t (or for whatever reason chose not to):

    We can put JHart on him who can match him with size and strength

    We can put IQ on him who can just be a pest with poke checks and quick hands.

    We can put Grimes on him who can match his size.

    We can put Deuce on him just to piss him off completely.

    In a bind on a switch RJ and Randle can guard him one on one in the post.

    The Bucks I believe just left Jrue Holliday on an island with Jimmy and Jrue just doesn’t have the size to guard Butler.

    The Knicks match up really well with the Heat and people just keep wanting to ignore that fact. And on the other end, I don’t think the Heat match up well against the Knicks cause we are gonna run them up and down the court now and when we miss shots, we will get the rebound and another chance anyway. That last game we played them, we beat them handily

  12. The one thing that gives me true, objective optimism about this series is that if Jimmy doesn’t go nuclear, there are few paths to victory for the Heat. They’d need insanely hot 3 point shooting. If he’s even close to his season averages we’re in a good spot.

    Either of those scenarios could happen of course, it’ll be a good series, but I see more paths to victory for us than them.

  14. His entire job all series. He’s gotta be Jimmy’s shadow. I don’t care if he scores a single point, just clamp Jimmy.

  15. Should we start Hart even if Grimes comes back? Feels like we’ll need hart to be Butler’s primary defender

  16. I have a weird but good feeling about this match up. I don’t think he’s gonna lock Jimmy up all series but I predicting game 1 josh is gonna really really make Jimmy struggle and keep him under 20 points

  17. And unlike before, Bam and Butler are the only two trustworthy offensive players in terms of who you’d have to 100% cover. I have Knicks in 6 at the worst

  18. I was thinking about this same thing today. But then again he put 56 and 42 in consecutive games against Jrue Holiday.

  19. Hart is so important in this matchup simply because he’s not gonna get intimidated by him. Butler wins a lot of mental battles and breaks people, not Hart. Hart could get roasted for 47 straight minutes, and the last minute still play with 100% intensity.

  20. In light of his 1st round performance, I think it’s safe to say that jHart will be starting the rest of the playoffs.

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