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On April 19, Beijing time, the Heat officially announced Butler's latest condition, after facing the 76ers injured in the first quarter yesterday and insisting on playing the team's fourth quarter of the game, Butler has limped back to the locker room, and today finally ushered in bad news, Butler suffered a sprained medial collateral ligament in his right knee and will be out for several weeks.
Butler directly under the official injury report of the Heat, Aite Oubre, publicly made a fight, shouting: Come on, do a fight @Oubre, the spearhead is directed at Oubre who caused him to be injured, because Oubre was defending Butler and caused him to fall to the ground.
The impact of Butler's absence
Butler is the spiritual leader of the team, and he is the boss of the locker room, without Butler's sitting, just like the Lakers without James, the team must not have the confidence to win in morale, and the Heat are walking on thin ice!
Why Butler is so important
Teams that are familiar with the Heat know that the reason why the Heat was able to overcome obstacles all the way to the stage of the Finals last season is because of Butler's tough guy attributes, which is that he still continues to impact the opponent's penalty area to score under the high-intensity defense of the Alphabet Song and the Celtics again and again, interrupting the opponent's offensive rhythm, and finally going all the way to the Finals.
This season, Butler averaged 20.8 points, 5.3 rebounds and 5 assists per game, not only as an important scorer for the team, but also as a spearhead of the forward defense and the most important core of the team.
It can be said that Butler is their pillar, and without the support of this pillar, it is only a matter of time before it collapses.
Now that Butler is down, Herro has proven that he can't carry the banner yesterday or last season, maybe the team can reuse one person and play with a "center hand-to-hand" style of play, or he can save the team and catch the last train of the playoffs.
That center forward is "Adebayo".
This season's Adebayo can average 19.3 points, 10.4 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 1.1 steals per game, Adebayo is not a pure blue-collar center, but a core center with a low offensive role, but the team has an offensive core Herro and Butler this season so he has lowered his tactical core, as long as he is given enough shots and interior hand-to-hand fighting tactics, he is still an "All-Star player".
Adebayo is also a "tough guy" who has proven himself, and the history of blood and tears that carried his brother is still vivid, and he may be the "straw" of the Heat.
Whether Spo can give it a go, and whether Adebayo can inherit the "tough guy" attribute, we will wait and see.