BOSTON — The scene in the Miami Heat locker room after Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals was no different than any other job site in the latest city the eighth seed unwound from an honest day's work. Music turned up, Harpoon IPAs all around and appreciation for the dude who carried the heaviest burden.
"We can beat anybody," several members of the Heat's basketball operations staff told Yahoo Sports prior to Wednesday's workmanlike 123-116 win over the second-seeded Celtics.
“He’s a championship player," veteran Heat forward Kevin Love told Yahoo Sports."He’s the type of guy who elevates his game and is at his best when his best is needed. Not to say in the regular season he’s not that, because he’s an All-NBA guy, but he just has another X-factor, another level to him that the great ones have. We’re following that. He elevates his game, and he’s a guy we look at to lead us and to take us there.
The margin ballooned to 12 by the end of a quarter in which the Heat scored a franchise-record 46 points to Boston's 25. The Celtics trimmed the deficit to five several times in the fourth, but Butler responded in kind. In five minutes between finding Adebayo for a floater and Caleb Martin for a corner 3-pointer, Butler swiped three steals over a span of seven defensive possessions and drilled two more mid-range jumpers.
“What we used to do with LeBron, we knew what we needed just to calm the game down and get a good shot, whether it be him or somebody else," Love, who reached four straight Finals with James in Cleveland, told Yahoo Sports."Jimmy is so unselfish, too. You can drop it into him, he can play pick and roll, and you know, ‘OK, we’re going to have a good possession, and we’re going to have a chance.
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