Miami Heat Legend Udonis Haslem Skeptical Jimmy Butler Success On Warriors Will Pay off in Playoffs

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15 mins of Heat! Goran Dragić to have a new podcast with Nikola Jovic? Udonis Haslem is skeptical and questions if Jimmy Butler's success with Warriors will last... is he still Playoff Jimmy?

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00:00Did you guys see yesterday?

00:02Did you guys happen to see on social media?

00:07Cause it was interesting enough.

00:08We were talking about these two when I referred to Leroy's blissfully ignorant

00:12Goran Dragic is up to something and it appears that he is, I guess, I guess

00:20he's also getting into podcasting.

00:22I don't know, but there's a photo that he posted on his Instagram.

00:28Of him sitting down at a microphone with Nicola.

00:35Yo, wow.

00:38I don't know what to make of it.

00:39I don't know what to make of it.

00:41I don't know if this is his thing or what, but young, but

00:49I'd say sits down with OG.

00:50Brought that something's happening there.

00:54Very interesting.

00:56But those are from opposing clans.

01:00Aren't they?

01:00Isn't this Slovenia works like that?

01:02I don't think that's how that works.

01:03I mean, they, they play each other in basketball, but there's a lot of

01:06similarities, Ken, Ken, these are two different, this is not street fighter.

01:20But speaking of street fighter, you don't, it's Haslam.

01:23Oh, you guys has it was on NBA today.

01:27Yesterday.

01:29He had something to say about the Jimmy Butler, a honeymoon phase in gold.

01:34Say that mind you, this was before gold.

01:35They did win last night over the boxes.

01:37It was fresh off their loss to the, uh, Joker list Murray lists nuggets, even

01:43though Jimmy did have a good game there too, but that's just not as good

01:45as Aaron Gordon always gives us.

01:47Um, but here was you, Donna's has them.

01:51Who's skeptical that the warriors are going to be able to keep this up, but

01:57I'm going to go with golden state here.

01:59Obviously playoff.

02:00Jimmy is a thing because we've seen him before, but more than anything else,

02:04Steph Curry last night, Steve Kerr talked about how tired he is.

02:08They've got to get him some rest, got to get his battery recharged, but he's

02:11still playing at the peak of his powers.

02:14Him and Draymond green four time champions.

02:16I just think they have the talent and the pedigree to be the

02:20biggest threat to Oklahoma.

02:22I got to argue with you on that one.

02:23And this is no Jimmy hate, but I will say that the record has been a little

02:28bit favorable to go to the state.

02:29Right now.

02:29I'm looking at the record of teams that they played in.

02:31We're talking about 312 wins to 364 losses.

02:35I would argue that some of these teams, they probably

02:37could have beat without Jimmy.

02:38Now, Jimmy has given them a boost.

02:40It's like a shot of whiskey right now, but we'll see if

02:42it lasts throughout the playoffs.

02:44All right, there you go.

02:45You Donna's has, I mean, I mentioned that yesterday.

02:49He's right.

02:50He's right.

02:50They only, I mean, here's what I would say that Jimmy fits with golden state

03:04because anything that he does is a bonus.

03:10They haven't yet gotten into the position where anybody has made a

03:14demand on Jimmy to be the guy except last night.

03:20I mean, yeah.

03:21I mean, to some extent, where do you end up with?

03:24Uh, he nearly had a triple double.

03:25I think he had like 24, eight and 10.

03:30What's I mean, okay.

03:34But again, see the difference between Jimmy and Steph is that Steph has to

03:45do numbers like that every night because Jimmy plays with Steph.

03:50He doesn't have to, when he was with the heat, they needed him to do that every

03:55night.

03:56No, but I think the question is, okay, we, we understand that.

04:00I mean, that's not going to change.

04:01He obviously is going to have Steph Curry.

04:03And the whole point of like Steph Curry being exhausted that Steve

04:05Kerr put out there didn't play him.

04:08Is, is this magical Jimmy Butler run legitimate?

04:14Is it legitimate?

04:15How legitimate is it?

04:16If Steph Curry is exhausted, how much of the, how much of the burden is he

04:21actually, you know, relieving Steph from if Steph is still exhausted?

04:29I don't know.

04:30I would figure, I would figure this, that if you bring another star, then you don't

04:34have to play, you don't have to play Curry 35 minutes.

04:38You can give him some more breaks.

04:40Cause you got somebody to hold it down.

04:43Which he did.

04:44But, and I think that's the thing though, is like, he did have kind of his moment

04:47last night to show them that he could, and he did, and you know, it's against

04:52the team that he's familiar with.

04:53It's a good, it's a good team.

04:54I mean, like Milwaukee is not okay.

04:57See, but they're, they're no slouch either.

04:59I mean, they're, they're a healthy amount over 500.

05:03Yeah.

05:03I mean, I guess my record there, you know, golden States better.

05:06Now they haven't been right.

05:09I'm just, you know, I don't know if there's going to be a time when it gets

05:17down to crunch time that you're ever going to be able to take some of that

05:23burden off of Steph, their test is like, if you're going to believe in them, it's

05:27still not going to come until probably the beginning of April, then who even

05:29knows, cause there are a lot of guys starting to maintenance program, their

05:32stars, but their next four are, or the next five Toronto, Atlanta, Miami,

05:38new Orleans, San Antonio, which, right.

05:41I mean, that can be like a Swiss, uh, you know, a knife through butter with

05:45that, with that run of teams that the way they're especially the way Miami's

05:48playing, but that's, that's what their schedule has been for the last month.

05:52It has been, it has been, which is why UD is skeptical.

05:55But I would say that if you were skeptical, like last night was a

05:58pretty, a pretty strong response by Jimmy.

06:03What?

06:04Well, because yeah, you can do it every now and then.

06:08The, which is always going to have to do with, uh, with Steph being

06:11that, and see, that's, that's the question I have is that if Steph is

06:18tired now, are you going to need more of that from Jimmy to spell Steph

06:26during stretches of, of the game?

06:29And if you do, is he going to be able to do that on, you know, a lot, you

06:37know, in order to keep Steph fresh for when it's crunch time that that's, I

06:43think that's the question that UD has is that they play one good, they

06:48played a couple of good teams.

06:51Um, Jimmy balled out last night because Steph wasn't there, but if the whole

06:57point of having another star was to spell or give your number one a break.

07:05And Steph is exhausted anyway.

07:08Yeah.

07:08But like is the exhaustive thing, a convenient thing that they just threw

07:12out there because they lost and then they had a back-to-back like, is he

07:15really exhausted?

07:16Cause his numbers have gone up with Jimmy Butler there.

07:19Yes.

07:19Damn.

07:20You know, like is that to me is like almost one of these things where like

07:23everybody, like they got a little credibility because they had a 15 game

07:26run where they lost two games.

07:28And so they lose a game and Stephen goes, Oh, but adorable.

07:32Steph is tired.

07:33I'm like, Oh, now he's tired.

07:36Really?

07:36Was he tired when he was shimmying all over the New York Knicks a day ago?

07:40He didn't look too tired then.

07:43I saw him drop it like it was hot before the, before the ball even hit the net.

07:48So if you're not tired last night, you can't be tired tonight.

07:53I'm just saying it's like, do you know how tired works?

07:58Hey, cause he had a lot of turnovers.

08:00Why can't we ever just have a bad game?

08:01Maybe Steph just threw up a stinker.

08:04Oh, now.

08:05Ooh.

08:06Oh my goodness.

08:07Coming from you.

08:08That's amazing.

08:09Oh, I just think it's funny.

08:10Usually, usually, usually you, you, you might, you've been known after one

08:16bad game to bring out the bum guns.

08:20You have this.

08:22He had seven turnovers.

08:23Oh, sorry.

08:23He didn't get his nap.

08:26You think a nap is going to help him?

08:28I don't know.

08:29I just think it's, have you seen all the running he does at what?

08:3235, 36.

08:37Maybe you should make one of those, uh, those convenient

08:39injuries that LeBron has to go away for two weeks in the main lab.

08:42Oh, and here we go.

08:45Wow.

08:47Every March, you see every March, this guy goes, what is he doing?

08:53No, no, no.

08:54I growing didn't look too bad when he was cheering.

08:57Oh, no.

09:00And also, I don't know.

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