Explain: Jimmy Butler and Draymond are the Block Brothers vs Raptors in another cliffhanger ending
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In this episode, we break down the Warriors' thrilling victory despite losing Steph Curry in the third quarter in the Golden State Warriors - Toronto Raptors game on 2025-03-20-TOR-GSW. We look at the excellent defensive efforts with Draymond Green's unpredictable switching defense and the efforts of Jimmy Butler to generate offense despite Toronto's defense punishing the poor spacing of the Warriors lineups without Steph Curry.
Starring Steph Curry, Draymond Green, Jonathan Kuminga, Moses Moody, Brandin Podziemski, Quinten Post and Jimmy Butler. With Jamal Shead, Ochai Agbaji, Scottie Barnes, Jakob Poeltl.
This is fun...number of losses:
Houston - 25
Lakers - 26
Nuggets - 27
Grizzlies - 28
Warriors - 29
Clippers - 30
T-Wolves - 31
I think this video does a good job highlighting why "Give Jimmy the ball and everyone stand around and watch him" isn't necessarily a great play to run for like 3 minutes straight. I think we often see this too with the late game offense when it turns into "Steph trying to dribble 7 times into a step back 3"
The best late game offense for Steph is usually when there's off ball movement before he gets it, creating shots for others or himself. With Jimmy, it's slightly different, but you need movement, you need cutters that put pressure on the defense to move or even just phantom flare/pin down screens that occupy defenders. And you occasionally saw some cuts but because the spacing is "stand around and move away from Jimmy" instead of more deliberate, it doesn't work. We saw this in one of Eric's previous videos where Buddy and Podz kept standing in the same spot on the perimeter.
I think enough time has passed that there needs to be more deliberate spacing in iso actions for Butler beyond just 'get out of the way'