So far in the first round of the playoffs, who is the scoring champion? It is Jimmy Butler, who can average 30.5 points per game, and deserves to be the leading scorer. Facing the Hawks again, Butler scored a comprehensive stat of 36 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 steals on 12-of-21 shooting, with 0 turnovers at the same time. Regardless of how Butler played in the regular season, from the playoffs, it is worthy of the four words of "superstar"! This round of playoffs against the Hawks, Butler is to give and take, how to score how to score, how to cut the data how to cut the data, the Hawks no one can defend Butler, at least in terms of alignment, Butler is basically stress-free.
On the one hand, the Eagles are not a strong team in defense itself, and there is no strong small forward in the team that can match Butler, so the point of the game has become a point that the Hawks cannot solve. In fact, after the Heat injured Lowry, the biggest problem was instability! Adebayor is unable to dominate the fifth position, and is often accurate to one iron game, scoring at a rate that is not high enough. And Hiro has a game without a game, this game is 8 in 1, so the stability of the Heat is all up to Butler.
Butler's ball wind has always been a word: hard! The playing style is a bit similar to DeRozan, relying on breakthroughs and mid-range points, but the difference is that in DeRozan, there are more shots in the middle distance than breakthroughs, while Butler is more balanced, the number of breakthroughs and mid-range shots is similar, and the most important thing is that Butler likes to physically fight and likes to make foul scores. Well, this is where Butler's ability begins to show, killing the Hawks under the basket is all layups, and the Hawks' front line can't find a player who can compete with Butler in the confrontation.
Butler is not the kind of talented small forward, the height, the arm span is not very good, even the bounce is not necessarily excellent, but Butler has a strength, that is, like confrontation. His body type is not very good, but over the years it seems to have trained the confrontation ability of the body type, so the confrontation is what Butler likes to find. Generally speaking, as long as it is not the kind of talent monster that meets James and Alphabet Brother, it is difficult for the average small forward to win him physically, which is also Butler's exclusive advantage.
Although Butler was good in the playoffs, Butler in the regular season had two words: pretending to be dead. Can you imagine Butler, who currently averages 30.5 points per game in the playoffs, averaging just 21.4 points per game in the regular season? It's unexpected, and by the time of this season's playoffs, Butler's shooting percentage was as high as 54.3 percent and his three-point shooting rate was as high as 43.8 percent, which was a lot of meaning for Leonard in the east Durant West of last season's playoffs. However, the sample size of the playoffs is not large at present, butler's performance is only temporarily leading the league, and when the playoffs reach the second round, then the real strength of the stars begins to be truly displayed.