The NBA will never lack tough guys, but on the past few years of league tough guy representatives, I believe no one dares to directly ignore Jimmy Butler.
In the flow of impressions, Butler was once a very troublesome player, in the Bulls and Timberwolves locker rooms have made a lot of trouble, no team really talk about belonging, the relationship with teammates is more general, when serious, it is called "cancer".
However, it is such a controversial figure that after coming to the Heat, the tough guys are stacked on top of each other.
Doing the most tiring work, defending the strongest people, leading a group of Underdogs to the finals, in this mood, even many fans are willing to attribute Butler's past controversies to his own too hard, other players too soft brewed.
In short, in the large number of reports and comments, you can clearly feel that the wind criticism about Butler is getting better and better, especially his hardness.
However, this season, somehow, fans began to have a deeper understanding of Butler's tough guy image, hard is hard, but it is fake hard, which is often called "pseudo tough guy".
The most emblematic thing is nothing more than the WWE played by Jokic and Big Morris some time ago.
Everyone who watched the replay knew that the foul was originally the fault of The Great Morris, but Butler, as a bystander, was out of control.
Slow motion shows Butler, blocked by the crowd, at a distance of tens of meters, constantly spraying garbage and making provocative waving movements, resulting in a technical foul for prompting the escalation of the situation.
But that didn't cool Butler's pretentious heart.
After the game, he led a group of teammates to the Nuggets locker room to block the door, asked Jokic for explanations, from the photos released by the Nuggets photographer, Lowry was also photographed as the leading big brother, fortunately, the Nuggets security intervened in time, so that the conflict did not escalate further.
As Jokic's big brother fighting scenes were exposed, it was then revealed that Butler was mainly against the Nuggets coach in the game, not Jokic himself.
There is no cross-line move + post-match confessional statement, and it is not difficult to understand why fans will scoff at Butler's tough guy image today.
And just yesterday against the Timberwolves, Butler's tough guy set up was once again hit.
In the face of his former old club, Butler not only did not show absolute motivation, but was seized by the 20-year-old Edwards, who scored 33 points to stage a five-game winning streak of death, and also mocked a wave.
During the third quarter of the game, Butler snatched the basketball from Edwards' hand during the stop-ball stage, who was very angry and directly reached out and pushed Butler, Butler was not willing to show weakness, but unlike the last time, he was not so excited, he just turned around and found Edwards to face him.
From the GIF, it can be seen that Edwards did not fear the big brother at all, and after seeing Prince and Beasley rushing over, Butler did not even dare to look at the Timberwolves anymore.
After the game, Edwards said of the clash between the two: "Butler will never find anyone to fight, that is, to go up and demonstrate. That's their trick of bullying rookies, and no one wants to fight. I don't eat this set anymore, it's all fake. “
Let's not say who is right and who is wrong, just such a thing will undoubtedly make Butler extremely embarrassed.
I have to say that butler is now a bit like Garnett at that time, both people's style of play is notoriously tough, but at some points it is a fight and retreat, which has also become the focus of fans' repeated complaints.
Although the fans complained that it was not unreasonable, I still wanted to say that the real toughness is not reflected by fighting, after all, the basketball court still has to use basketball to speak.
It is said that tough guys are often like water, hard is hard, soft is soft, and in the past some time, we have witnessed too much of Butler's weak side, but this does not mean that he is not hard.
So, don't pretend, we get it.