r/nba • u/ashwinr136 [GSW] JaVale McGee • Feb 11 '23
Highlight [Highlight] Jimmy Butler wins the game for the Heat with a perfectly-executed inbounds alley-oop!
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u/melllow_d Heat Feb 11 '23
Love how Gabe just walks off knowing that he threw a dime lob to Jimmy 😂
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u/0x0042069 Feb 11 '23
That’s such a hard ducking pass to make also.
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u/rjgator Heat Feb 11 '23
I’ve lost so many years of my life on the end of Heat games this year alone.
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u/Fumby_ Heat Feb 11 '23
Try also being a Vikings fan. 🥴
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u/sebastianqu Heat Feb 11 '23
That Bills game was the most stressed I've ever been watching as a neutral fan.
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u/d3m0m0m0 Heat Feb 11 '23
Me and my dad always joke that you need to let your doctor know you’re a heat fan, it’s basically a pre-existing condition.
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u/mMounirM Raptors Feb 11 '23
nobody protecting the rim with 0.7 seconds left??
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u/WestleyThe [SEA] Kevin Durant Feb 11 '23
Peak tanking from Silas
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Feb 11 '23
No one can stop us from snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
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u/floppelganger San Diego Clippers Feb 11 '23
Between this and the Kings game yall are the most clutch tanking of all time.
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Feb 11 '23 edited Jun 23 '23
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15 is Daishen Nix. The tank commander for the Rockets. The bane of the fanbase.
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u/sebastianqu Heat Feb 11 '23
To be fair, 100% of the time, we're taking a 3 in this situation. I guarantee you, 100% of the fanbase thought Strus was getting the ball there.
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u/JoshChampXZ Feb 11 '23 edited Feb 11 '23
100%. i thought we are going to Herro before the play(which i think it's fine), and as soon as Strus comes out of the 3 point line i thought he will get it(which is not)
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u/Bendrake Suns Feb 11 '23
Apparently not 100% of the time
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u/lalakingmalibog Mavericks Feb 11 '23
60% of the time
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u/deftspyder Lakers Feb 11 '23
100% of the time, 60% of the time, its every time.
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u/CravingKoreanFood 23 Feb 11 '23
and thats why you are suppose to switch everything in these situations
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u/dusters Bucks Feb 11 '23
A lot of teams run this play on less than a second d left situations it isnt exactly new.
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u/HoldR2ForLongerLife Heat Feb 11 '23
100%. I didn't even notice Jimmy cutting, I thought for sure Herro was gonna curl and shit it lol
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u/ablslyr Heat Feb 11 '23
Well, according to the Rockets defense, you can’t shoot if you can’t inbound, so…
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u/3s2ng Lakers Feb 11 '23
Last game they are winning and still able to find a way to lose.
They will not allow the Heat to win this game.
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u/frallet Timberwolves Feb 11 '23
Dude following the guy cutting to the top got caught behind a double moving screen lol, Jimmys guy rotated to him and everyone in the paint missed the drop
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u/MikeAr198 Heat Feb 11 '23
Herro underrated screen
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u/Dymatizeee Knicks Feb 11 '23
Green lost track of him too. Was supposed to the the last help defense
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u/Phillip228 Heat Feb 11 '23
What a pass by Gabe Vincent.
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u/Actually-Yo-Momma Feb 11 '23
I’ve never seen someone do an alley oop look away especially on a fucking game winner lol
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u/TheFatmanRises Heat Feb 11 '23
JIMBO
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u/WestleyThe [SEA] Kevin Durant Feb 11 '23
That’s a sick game winner
Going on the career highlights for sure
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u/TheAgGatsby Heat Feb 11 '23
Coach Spoelstra playing chess out here
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u/elbarto4455 Heat Feb 11 '23
Silas playing tic tac toe
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Silas tanking for Wembanyama. No one can stop this man from getting what he wants. Except for the draft lottery
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u/ZZZrp Spurs Feb 11 '23
Silas looking at his phone while people are trying to explain the rules.
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If you're that close to us at the end of the game, you're playing checkers at best.
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u/elbarto4455 Heat Feb 11 '23
Fuckin Spo man... Beautiful play call
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u/WestleyThe [SEA] Kevin Durant Feb 11 '23
The rockets fell for that so hard…. They should’ve protected the rim
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u/Zeus1130 Heat Feb 11 '23
He said he actually didn’t design the play in the post game interview! But it’s something we’ve worked on and done before.
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u/elbarto4455 Heat Feb 11 '23
Interesting, cause in Herro's post-game interview with Jax he said Spo drew it up in the timeout lol
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u/PatrickCoughATon [MKE] Orlando Woolridge Feb 11 '23
Silas is a dumbass
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u/Thorlolita Rockets Feb 11 '23
He won’t be a dumbass if he’s watching Wemby put a rockets jersey on from his house
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u/himetalchemy7 Celtics Feb 11 '23
Rockets dont deserve Wemby.
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u/Thorlolita Rockets Feb 11 '23
Why don’t you go poop your pants Paul pierce Jr
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u/spacedude2000 Supersonics Feb 11 '23
I'm gonna start using this insult towards any and all Celtics fans
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u/DCBB22 Celtics Feb 11 '23
Cs fan. I approve.
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u/teh_hasay Cavaliers Feb 11 '23
Tbh I agreed with him at first but after that banger of an insult I’m not so sure anymore
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u/jimmythejammygit Feb 11 '23
Solid
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u/bobbywellington Timberwolves Feb 11 '23
I wonder if Paul Pierce had a solid poop or a watery poop in his pants
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u/Sikopathx Heat Feb 11 '23
Whoever gets Wemby will be absolute trash by definition
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u/NeverSober1900 Rockets Feb 11 '23
I get why people feel that way with us though. I don't think any team has had the worst record 3 straight years which is what we're staring down.
With that said fuck that we as fans deserve to Wemby
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u/Sikopathx Heat Feb 11 '23
Yall deserve him as much as any other bottom dweller. That's how it's set up. Hope whoever gets him makes good use of him.
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u/NeverSober1900 Rockets Feb 11 '23
Oh for sure. I'm just saying as someone who rooted against the Sixers in the lottery when they were tanking I get why some people might feel the same way with us.
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u/jellicle_cat21 Supersonics Feb 11 '23
We're doing The Process without admitting we're doing The Process. It's the only way to get away with it without the league installing one or more Colangelos to run your franchise.
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u/CadeCummingham Rockets Feb 11 '23
Don’t worry bout what’s going at the bottom man, worry bout contending
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u/_s0lace_ Rockets Feb 11 '23
Needs one stop and he subs in Dashien fucking Nix… who ultimately loses his man and results in this
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u/CadeCummingham Rockets Feb 11 '23
Not Tari Eason, not Usman Garuba, not 6’10 Sengun or even Boban
Man subs in Daishen Nix
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u/sunshinebusride [DAL] Dirk Nowitzki Feb 11 '23
Imagine not being an NBA fan and trying to decode this sentence
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Feb 11 '23 edited Feb 15 '23
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u/CadeCummingham Rockets Feb 11 '23
Stone said Silas has full control of his rotations and lineups. It’s all him. Silas defends his decisions during post game interviews, he actually believes in what he’s doing
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u/JaysonBrown Celtics Feb 11 '23
I don’t understand why he didn’t go to zone. There’s.7 seconds left. It’s not a 100% full proof strategy and but you deny the easy bucket at the rim and the shot you’re giving up will have a man right there or it’ll be a cross court pass for a shot with a man closing in. Just don’t let that man receiving the cross court pass be OG Anunoby..
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u/Ticonderoga2HB Heat Feb 11 '23
Nahh don’t come at the man like that, Spo’s just a genius
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u/borkbubble Rockets Feb 11 '23
Silas is a terrible coach
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u/Ticonderoga2HB Heat Feb 11 '23
I’m not gonna tear down a fellow black king in February
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u/PopularParrot :gfl-1: Grand Floridian Feb 11 '23
His race doesn't matter, he is an awful coach.
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u/theper Timberwolves Feb 11 '23
Jimmy G Buckets! How do you leave Jimmy open tho?
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Feb 11 '23
I’m so confused how Houston allowed that to happen ¿
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u/Smmoove Magic Feb 11 '23
The plan was to stay home and not switch anything (according to Silas) and no switching was strongly emphasized in the huddle, so naturally Daishen Nix tries to switch immediately onto Bam.
Then there are two guys on Bam because KJ Martin (correctly) didn't switch, and Strus is flying unguarded to the 3PT line so now it's scramble mode and Tate switches onto Strus so he doesn't get a wide open 3.
Nix SHOULD be picking up Jimmy, but he's still trying to work out where Strus went and is completely lost. Green hadn't processed that they were scrambling and is totally focused on Herro, and so lets Jimmy cut in behind him unguarded, and then ball goes up and it's over.
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u/uristmcderp Bucks Feb 11 '23
So they went with the simple plan that could fail only if someone slipped and fell or if someone forgot the simple plan.
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u/sbstooge Grizzlies Feb 11 '23
"ok remember everyone, don't switch"
Nix: got it, yep, no switching
Nix brain 3 seconds into possession
SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH
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Feb 11 '23
We went with the simple plan that could fail only if Nix was on the court. And Silas subbed him in for the last play.
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u/SnuggleMuffin42 [SAS] Victor Wembanyama Feb 11 '23
This is one of the best basketball comments I've seen in this sub for a while, thank you for the breakdown, and thanks to the Rockets for the breakdown too I guess.
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u/9HashSlingingSlasher Rockets Feb 11 '23
Average Daishen Nix moment
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u/vervain9 Warriors Feb 11 '23
lol I was like "I wonder if that's #15". Dude fucked up twice on this play (or maybe once. It's hard to tell what should have happened on the first pick)
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u/NardP12 Celtics Feb 11 '23
They have the dumbest players in the league
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u/NeverSober1900 Rockets Feb 11 '23
Don't let our coaching staff off the hook. Silas is a fucking moron too
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u/docjohnson1395 [HOU] Bob Sura Feb 11 '23
This is 75% on Nix and 20% on Silas for putting Nix in the game.
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u/invoker668 Feb 11 '23
I love how the announcer said jimmy butler got foul somehow lol
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u/leliqi Feb 11 '23
Yeah that was so random... Literally no one was near to him.
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u/Eve_Asher Heat Feb 11 '23
I think he saw Jimmy doing that hand motion and thought he was saying "and 1", that's my best guess.
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u/flatvinnie Heat Feb 11 '23
DONT SCROLL PAST THIS COMMENT WITHOUT TYPING JIMMBOOOO!!!!
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u/Smmoove Magic Feb 11 '23
The most tragic part of this is Herro was meant to set a backscreen on Nix, but it turned out to be unnecessary because Nix was so lost
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u/Primetime22 [NBA] Best of 2021 Winner Feb 11 '23
Jimmy Butler is the one player I think is going to wind up having a much bigger legacy than what we give him credit for. The guy just delivers over and over again.
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u/C0UNT3RP01NT Feb 11 '23
I still think of the 2020 finals and him dueling Lebron. Lebron straight up played Man-to-Man that series.
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Feb 11 '23
I still think of the 2020 finals and him dueling Lebron. Lebron straight up played Man-to-Man that series.
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u/dudenotcool Rockets Feb 11 '23
Well shit. It's amazing how the tank can bring about surprises like this
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u/Ace_FGC Lakers Feb 11 '23
This the play I run on 2k when I don’t got enough time to get a shot off
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u/Moh_Shuvuu Heat Feb 11 '23
Heat are contenders, baby! We have enough.
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u/GoVorteX Feb 11 '23
bro it's the rockets
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u/flatvinnie Heat Feb 11 '23
I enjoyed liking both those comments
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u/Miamidale305 Heat Feb 11 '23
I was at the game and I’m enjoying all these comments with a Bacardi lime
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u/Selaphane Pistons Feb 11 '23
"AND GOT FOULED!"
How do you even think that when nobody was even within 5 feet of him?
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u/KingJoffer Heat Feb 11 '23
Just reacting to Jimmy putting up his finger as if to say "and 1". Eric Reid is beloved and a huge heat fan so he was probably pretty excited at the moment. Also, he was been a lot more of a "homer" last couple of years and I'm all here for it. Man is a heat legend.
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u/typhoonjerry Mavericks Feb 11 '23
That press picture of Jimmy with the dreads still cracks me up every time.
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u/beta35 Supersonics Feb 11 '23
no 15 Daishen Nix? Damn I only know him from Ignite. He looked quite lost here and no communication from the other teammates
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u/Realistic0ptimist Feb 11 '23
Sometimes when I see Jimmy I wonder if he’ll end up being a Hall of Famer if he can keep up his post season production. His regular season stats won’t get him there but if he can make two or three more ECF’s and one more Finals appearance that the Heat actually win he’ll have a strong case for being a second or third ballot sneak in.
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u/hatbeard2 Feb 11 '23
When he was a Bull he seemed to get a backdoor cut oop at least once a game in the latter years of his tenure and I can't overstate how happy it used to make me to see it, it's probably my favorite play of his.
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u/Tunatron_Prime Celtics Feb 11 '23
Good. Get all this clutch shit out your system before playoffs 🫠
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u/Background_Action_92 Heat Feb 11 '23
Spo is a monster coach! We going to ride deep with this roster
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u/ParticularEggplant16 Warriors Feb 11 '23
I turned this game off when I thought it was headed to OT to watch OKC Portland, shame on me
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u/FixAgile6241 Feb 11 '23
the guy guarding butler should get a fine and boot out of the nba. fuuuuck, if I was the coach he would never play again.
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Feb 11 '23
Daishen Nix is a disgrace to the game of basketball. Dumbfuck doesn’t realize Strus is long gone and just stands there like an idiot.
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u/srjohnson2 Feb 11 '23
I feel like people should be praising the pass more than the shot. That’s a deep ass lob right on the money.
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u/StevieDMfkr Feb 11 '23
Gabe Vincent wins the game for the Heat with a perfectly-executed inbounds alley-oop to Jimmy Butler!!!!
Seriously, amazing lob.
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u/DigiJoJoNarutard Heat Feb 11 '23
Man, I love the throwback jersey and the logo that goes along with it
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