The Miami Heat's SECRET PLAN To The NBA Finals (Jimmy Butler, Tyler Herro, Duncan Robinson) Subscribe to Hoopers Nation here ▶ https://bit.ly/3fVgDrM Twitter ▶ twitter.com/HoopersNation1 WATCH NEXT👇 Kahwi Leonard REGRETS Paul George Coming To The Clippers https://youtu.be/qhk1uJMJtJ4 Related Videos: The Miami Heat CAN ACTUALLY Win The Championship And Here's Why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HrMcaKGwKU The Miami Heat Secret Weapon That Can Lead Them To A Title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYT4nav-o2s The SECRET Plan of The MIAMI HEAT (Ft. Giannis Antetokounmpo, Bradley Beal, & More) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPa_aPPuDZU Welcome to Hoopers Nation where we go over the latest NBA 2020 news, from life inside the NBA bubble to the backstories of players in the league. Today, we look at the Miami Heat and what they pulled in the 2020 NBA playoffs. Jimmy Butler came into the NBA bubble and just wrecked havoc with the rest of his team, steamrolling the Giannis and the Bucks and moving past the Pacers with ease. Now Tyler Herro, Duncan Robinson, Erik Spoelstra, and the rest of the crew have stepped up in the Eastern Conference Finals. The Heat beat the Boston Celtics in game 6, advancing to the NBA Finals to face LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers. #HoopersNation #MiamiHeat #NBA It was early December 2019, almost ten months ago, when Jimmy Butler had a sit-down interview with ESPN’s Rachel Nichols. The Heat was firing on all cylinders at that point, as they were undefeated at home throughout the first six weeks of the regular season and everything was going great in South Beach. In a half-jokingly manner, Nichols asked Butler about his team’s chances at making the NBA Finals. “Why not?” Butler answered. “I don’t see why we can’t. As long as we play hard, if we make shots for sure, but we got to be able to say our defense is our anchor.” At that time, Butler – or nobody for that instance – had any idea that a global pandemic would force the league to shut down less than a month before the NBA playoffs started and completely alter the landscape of NBA basketball as we knew it. No more crowds, no more long traveling or nights with little sleep, no more life distractions; the whole focus would be winning and basketball when the NBA resumed its season and held the 2020 playoffs inside the NBA Bubble. Jimmy surprisingly rejected the option he had to bring in family members to the Bubble for the playoffs, saying this is a “business trip.” He wants to be alone, fully focused on what’s ahead for his team. This NBA Bubble is exactly the environment Butler thrives in. And this is exactly the reason why the Heat made everything in their power to get Butler last offseason. The Miami Heat and Jimmy Butler always sounded like a match made in heaven. Butler is a fierce competitor that prides on his great defense and guts to take and make timely and clutch shots; the Heat has long been an organization that has a defensive-first approach and likes to get the job done through team basketball. Miami was in desperate need of a star that could help them take their young core to the next level as they transitioned from the Dwyane Wade era. Butler just wanted a place where he could go compete for a championship, and be himself. “[Dwyane Wade] always told me the culture, the way that they work here, it’s you in every single way,” Butler said. “When I got here I could do nothing but smile, because of the way everyone talks to each other, the way everything is laid out on the table, you come in and work and then we have fun. This is the reason I play the game. These guys are like me in so many ways that I absolutely love being here, to compete with and for these guys. I’m having so much fun.” Butler is indeed having the time of his life in Miami, but it’s widely known he has butted heads with teammates and even coaches in the past for multiple reasons: lack of accountability, little competitiveness, passiveness; the list goes on and on. He infamously beat up the Timberwolves starters with the ‘third stringers’ shortly before being traded away from Minnesota, and chemistry issues prevented the Sixers from reaching their full potential last season. But ask anybody in the Heat’s locker room and they’ll dismiss the notion Butler is disruptive or a ‘locker room cancer’, as many labeled him. "Jimmy, despite probably what the narrative is out there, he's a very likable guy in the locker room and I think that helps in a setting like this,” said Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra after one of their wins over the Bucks. “He is the ultimate competitor,” added teammate Meyers Leonard. “Everybody wondered, ‘Oh, well, is he too competitive? Or is he an a**hole?’ No, he’s not. He’s a winner.” Veteran Andre Iguodala put it best when he said, "He was disruptive toward his other teammates, but you put him around some guys that actually want to get to the grind, what did he do for them?