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Steph Curry Violation is the reason why Warriors Jimmy Butler as Insurance – NBC Sports Bay Area & California

Steph Curry Violation is the reason why Warriors Jimmy Butler as Insurance – NBC Sports Bay Area & California

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Minneapolis – Steph Curry was sitting in his Target Center locker and headphones to switch off the world. The Warriors had just overtaken the Minnesota Timberwolves for a 99:88 game 1 victory on the street on Tuesday evening, 48 hours after they celebrated their brave game 7 against the Rockets in Houston. What was supposed to have been another cheering environment was at best gentle and dark, and Curry returned strongly to the team bus.

From the way he hopped on the square, and the sight of his last three of the night, which sprayed through a 25-foot waterfall of the arch, was Curry in a game to remember to open the semi-finals of the Western Conference. His night lasted 13 minutes, in which he scored 13 points and made a trio of three.

The sight that he reached on the back of his left leg could have sucked life from what an exhausted squad had been. The warriors, who shortly after his exit with a tense left skin out of the closure from the exit, should have spell the war, who had a lead of 10 points when he limped into the changing room.

That is why they act against Jimmy Butler.

The dream was to combine Curry with him, two alphas changed the course of a season, as they have since taken a warrior jersey, switched to 10th place and three Roman digits added to honor his deceased father. But as an insurance plan, Butler is about as reliable as it is when it is healthy.

“It's massive,” said Steve Kerr. “The game lay down. I mean, you could see the last six or eight minutes, everything we did were to take side stalls for Jimmy and we were even ready to take violations of the ball, to protect the ball, and Jimmy, I think, as well as any other star that control the pace and speed and control the pace and understanding the speed and the pace. Interesting the pace and understanding of the pace and understanding of the deep and immersion are quite calming.

Comforting. That was about as exactly as Kerr could have landed.

Butler had a total of three sales in the strenuous first round of the Warriors and never had a multiturnover game three of the seven games without a single giveaway. The game does not accelerate with Butler and there is no standstill. It flows and finds a state of rhythm and blues that corresponds to the raw strength.

Buddy Hield was the leading scorer of the Warriors with 24 points and caught 22 points in the second half behind five 3. But it was Butler who made an explanation, not by collecting points, but by flying through the floor and even greater than a 7-foot 1-rudy Gobert, which is six inches larger than him.

In the first half alone, Butler had five offensive rebounds and ended with seven, which wore a total of 11 boards. His teammates refer to him as “megatron” and channel his inner Calvin Johnson to move, who feel unattainable for most.

“Incredible anticipation,” said Kerr. “And I think this is one of the things that separate big players, the expectation of whatever happens. Both ends of the soil, Jimmy has this sense.”

Butler ended the victory with 20 points on 7-of-20 shootings, inefficient according to his standards, but was two nights after 45 minutes in 41 minutes plus 15. He scored 14 of his 20 points in the second half when Minnesota tried to change the dynamics.

Kerr does not expect Curry to play in game 2 on Thursday. Curry gets an MRI on Wednesday and it is a real way to lack several games. Without the chef knows Butler that there will be a larger assessment that will accept him.

“I think it will be my job to attract a little more attention, probably not as much as drawing, but I had to find a way to score and involve everyone else,” he said.

But he knows who he is and will not pretend he was curry or someone else.

“I'm not a band shooter,” said Butler. “I never was, it will probably never be. But I'll play the right way. If my boys are open, I'll pass it, I'll scream, 'shoot it!' And if you don't shoot it, I will probably shout at them because I didn't shot the ball.

“I will have to play hard. I know that I will come to myself for many minutes. I train for it. I will be ready for it.”

In the three games, Butler played without a curry after trade, he scored an average of 19.7 points, 6.0 rebounds and 6.7 assists. The NBA Playoff version of it always finds an additional level. Now he has to use a new dimension, because long curry is too.

There is the comfort and calm that he brings with his teammates, as well as the respect and persistence, which he also demands from them. That is why they act against Jimmy Butler. Not to be Steph Curry, but to be the ultimate safety valve in an emergency and to tore the hearts of a team and a lot that feel a sense of an advantage.

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