Among the 123 players who’ve played at least 100 minutes in this postseason, Kawhi Leonard (30 and 29) is the only other one with more steals than personal fouls.The Boston Celtics bid to make history and a second straight NBA Finals is still alive after a last second win from Miami on Saturday night.
And he now has 41 steals with just 34 personal fouls in the playoffs. He’s committed just 1.6 fouls per 36 minutes, third fewest among 75 players who’ve played at least 200 postseason minutes. He’s a physical offensive player without being too physical on the other end of the floor. The difference was at the line, where the Heat were 21-for-22 and the Lakers were 18-for-21.īutler has something to do with that latter number, too. The Lakers and Heat scored the same number of points on both 2-point shots (48) and 3-point shots (42) in Game 5.
He then put Miami ahead for good with two more freebies with 16.8 seconds left. With his team down 106-105, Butler rejected a screen and drew a foul on Markieff Morris, putting the Heat ahead with two freebies with 46.7 seconds left.Īfter Davis put the Lakers up 108-107 with a put-back, Butler used a Jae Crowder screen, got into the paint again, and drew a foul on Davis. With the game on the line, the Lakers couldn’t keep him from getting into the paint.
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He has 12 more attempts and 19 more makes than any other player in the series.Īnd the Heat needed all 12 of those free throws on Friday. Butler is now the third player in Finals history to achieve that 90-on-50 mark. Nobody had shot 90% or better on at least 50 free throw attempts in The Finals until last season, when both Kawhi Leonard (58-for-64) and Stephen Curry (54-for-57) did it. Butler made all 12 of his free throws on Friday and is now 46-for-50 (92%) in the series. Of course, there’s more to it than just getting to the line. (James has attempted 50-plus free throws in just one of his 10 trips to the Finals.) On Friday, he became the 32nd player with at least 50 free throw attempts in a Finals series. In the playoffs, Butler’s free throw rate is down slightly (66.0 per 100), but he now has three games of 12 or more attempts in The Finals. Yes, Butler’s free throw rate was higher than that of James Harden (52.8 attempts per 100 shots from the field). * Only Rudy Gobert (72.4 per 100) had a higher rate. The Heat led the league in free throw rate (29.9 attempts per 100 shots from the field) as a team. In the regular season, he attempted 69.3 free throws per 100 shots from the field, the *second highest rate among 155 players with at least 500 field goal attempts. Heat, Sunday at 7:30 ET on ABCīut 99% of the league would be more efficient if it could get to the line like Butler. His jumper has been better in the playoffs (effective field goal percentage of 46.0% from outside the paint), but he’s still attempted just five shots per game from the outside. His effective field goal percentage of 34.3% on shots from outside the paint was the worst mark among 190 players who attempted at least 200 shots from the outside in the regular season. The contextīutler would be a more efficient scorer if he could shoot 3s like Stephen Curry or even Jayson Tatum. OREB% = % of available offensive rebounds obtainedġ9, 12 - Jimmy Butler’s field goal attempts and free throw attempts in Game 5. OffRtg = Points scored per 100 possessions One stat stood out from the rest as the Heat forced a Game 6 (Sunday, 7:30 p.m. But Anthony Davis was hobbled by a heel contusion and when James drew four defenders on his final drive, Danny Green missed a wide-open 3 for the lead with seven seconds on the clock.
The Lakers got 40 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists from LeBron James. It was a one-possession game for the final 6:51 and Butler put his team ahead four different times in the last two minutes. Jimmy Butler played all by 49 seconds of the game and put together with his second triple-double of the last three games, finishing with 35 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists, adding five steals. The Heat survived one of the best games of the 2020 playoffs, escaping with a thrilling 111-108 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 5 of The Finals on Friday. The Miami Heat aren’t going home just yet.
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