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00:00take a listen to this because a lot of you didn't get to hear it after the game
00:03this is at the podium um and it's become sort of a little bit of a thing for sure in recent weeks
00:09this is jimmy butler and buddy healed after the game together buddy and jimmy uh we haven't done
00:18that yet draymond declared that tonight jimmy became batman and buddy went from alfred to robin
00:26do you guys have any comments on that declaration no i'll start out i'll start out no no no no
00:32i'm batman today i saved the day he's still robin all right well i'm still robin yes uh and steph's
00:42still batman and uh buttered is still who he is i mean buttered so he he had another good game man
00:51except for that stupid thing you did at the beginning of the game when you have on the right
00:56shorts it's not real robin and or batman like buddy what happened with the wardrobe malfunction
01:01jimmy switches out that's doing jimmy fall okay jimmy switches out and that's what happens i was
01:09looking for my shorts and i thought it was the right one he said yo put these on it was the right
01:11and i that was that's that's what you're going with yeah i'm going jimmy is jimmy fall
01:16his locker is next to my locker i was looking for my shorts he said yo my camera my shorts oh i see
01:21there and i put them on and look just alike and after that that'll find for it so it's cool
01:26it's jimmy's fault blame jimmy i mean obviously you know there's always so much responsibility
01:30on you but when you see steph go down responsibility in the shorts too
01:33like i'm telling you responsibility on him he's not doing his job when you see steph go down
01:39what does that communicate to you what are you trying to then what did you see from buddy when
01:45stuff yeah um i saw butter be aggressive and and make some some timely shots and get stops
01:53um in a big way um i think we all want 30 back that that is for sure but we want him to do his
02:00best for himself best for our group um in the long run in the long haul and until then we can hold down
02:07the fork i know we can jimmy you've been through these types of things before what was psychologically
02:13how can still play you put everything into this and then you can't play like yeah it's tough um
02:21you know one of the their greatest to ever do it um and he wants to be out there i think he knows
02:28and we know how much easier the game is for us whenever he's hooping at a high level but uh
02:34i think we're all prepared to compete and win without him we don't want to but we are prepared
02:39and we may have to so we'll we'll see what it all means and what it all says come tomorrow
02:44draymond mentioned that you two guys were kind of going back and forth in the huddle even
02:49uh do you feed i mean we've seen that we've seen you guys go back for you you're doing it right now
02:53actually why are we going back and forth why were you going back and forth because when i you know
02:59what i'm not going to say exactly what i'm what i say in the locker room but when i got a mismatch
03:04in the post don't cut stay on it stay on the perimeter if you got a mismatch you can score the
03:09ball i am going to score the ball i can't score the ball when you cut into my space you're a shooter
03:13you're not even a cutter oh you see you saw what happened when you shot a layup in the first quarter
03:17smoky robinson that's exactly what you did use the backboard too exactly you guys feed off of this
03:25though i mean is it like when you can do this does it translate to what happens on the court it
03:31actually does um because i respect butter so much because he knows whatever i'm saying my name is
03:39buddy but that's short for butter it's he knows what i'm saying is always towards winning same thing
03:48that that draymond does and everybody and you can talk to whoever you want to talk to like that in the
03:54moment then you move past it you know what i'm saying like we had another something in the huddle
03:59he was like you know what you're right and we move on because the main goal is to win he understands
04:04that i just want to win i understand that he just want to win so we're able to talk to each other
04:07perhaps you guys um gary compared you to bickering brothers and you're the little annoying brother and
04:14you're the older brother and what gary is i don't know maybe he's the middle brother the clumsy one
04:19always doing the dumbest stuff ever you literally wore the wrong shorts
04:24the audacity do you think that this creates kind of a little family uh environment to yeah i think
04:32we really do enjoy being around each other um we really do enjoy um when somebody else is playing
04:39great uh and whenever everybody else is shining everybody's happy so it's a good feeling that to
04:46have this energy and did this energy and relationship kind of help your i mean you've
04:52you when you got here it seemed like it didn't take long for you to be part of the the group we had
04:58to make sure he got his joy back because somehow he lost his joy you're not going to say where he
05:04lost his joy but somehow he lost his joy why do you keep doing this do you even know what these are
05:08called what are they called two fingers are we done no oh no wow jimmy how um steph's obviously a
05:19very unique player not just how good he is but the way he plays with him out it seems like the
05:25offense has to change the way it functions and obviously a lot of it's through you how do you see
05:29what the offense needs to do how would you describe what the offense needs to do if he's out for a
05:34couple years uh ball just needs to move a lot more um find the open guy attack closeouts get into the
05:42paint um and i i guess it's going to be my job to draw a little bit more attention probably not as
05:49much as steph does draw but uh i gotta find a way to score and get everybody else involved jimmy your
05:55belief in this team is stuck fast but to see this team win without steph on game one on the road of
06:01minnesota in the semifinals what does that do for this team um i've said it uh before any team with
06:08me on it i think has a chance and i know that any team with steph on it does have a chance
06:13and my guys believe it too um they work so hard at their craft every single day um they don't shy
06:20away from any moment from any matchup they'll do whatever you ask them to do to make sure that we
06:24have a chance of winning and uh we're gonna need all hands on deck if 30's not ready to go
06:29jimmy you've always played within the construct of the team you never really want to stand out but
06:34in other stops you've had to be a high usage guy are you prepared to take on that responsibility again
06:42if i have to i don't i'm not a volume shooter never have been probably never will be um but i'm gonna
06:49play the right way if my guys is open uh i'm gonna pass it i'm gonna yell shoot it and if they don't
06:54shoot it i'm probably gonna yell at them for not shooting the ball um and i'm just gonna have to
06:58be efficient i'm gonna have to play hard i know i'm gonna have a lot of minutes coming my way
07:02i train for this um but we ready for it jimmy steve said buddy is a two-way player now like how tough
07:10is it for you to mold him into that me mold him and you know what i do be frying him one-on-one
07:16don't know you perhaps yeah uh he had his moments i ain't gonna lie butter butter has been stepping
07:24up big time on a defensive side of ball for sure to start out the games um and it's crazy because i
07:29think he what you had two points at half two points but his defense was off the charts um and you got
07:35the toughest matchup in in guarding anthony edwards um and then he came back still guarding at a high
07:41level and creating making shots two-way players to stretch but uh buttered is he's been key he's
07:47been key i'm nice for both of you guys buddy you finished with eight rebounds jimmy you came out and
07:52had six offensive rebounds in the first half just just the mentality against this bigger team going up
07:56and getting those rebounds uh we i think the the mindset was uh boxing out rudy gobert he got a fresh
08:03share of them but uh just box him out we know what he did in the lakers series and uh how effective he
08:08was and uh when we got guys uh was doing it doing their work early uh to prevent that and uh
08:14just gonna keep on continuing the boys if he can continue the boys and get out and uh play our
08:18basketball and put the ball in jimmy's hands like he what we all been talking about and uh just
08:21trusting to make the right play i think it may be in good shape jimmy there was there was some hype
08:25about you coming back playing here for the first time since 2021 did you notice the light booze
08:30response that doesn't bother me but people do have to wash their mouth you know it's cool with the
08:36booze and all that stuff but you're calling people out of their names and all of that stuff
08:40which i can hear what they say you want me to repeat it yeah no i'm not gonna repeat it it's not
08:44good that that's unnecessary the booze i get it i understand let's just keep it at that yeah watch
08:52your mouth thanks little bro thanks buttered yeah watch your mouth watch your mouth pretty funny
09:00i mean buttered you could eat that with a spoon over the same buddy late at night i mean that is
09:06just i don't know man and and you know some people are like man jimmy is hard on buddy i i listen to
09:15that and jimmy's only been here for three months and they sound like they've been friends since they
09:22were five years old that's a good way to put it yeah best thing in life if you can find friends
09:29who can talk to each other that way and like nothing is ever serious because actually at the
09:36bottom of it everything is always serious right in other words that is that's love they like that
09:41at the core of all of those jokes is nothing but respect or else you wouldn't talk to people that
09:46way right and i do also think that they understand that at the bottom of it nothing is serious at the
09:52same time right like if you think about what they're doing they make a lot of money playing
09:57basketball bouncing a leather object and trying to throw it through a metal hoop and that's what
10:01they're doing and they're entertainers and they want to win and everybody wants the same thing
10:05and buddy shows up with the wrong shorts on and it's perfect just as we're listening to that
10:11i'm going back through my mind and thinking about that whole sequence and the way the minnesota staff
10:18was the ones who were like like they start pointing at it like he's in the wrong shorts and coming up at
10:24five we'll ask steve kerr about all the different ways that he's had a delay of the game called
10:29against his team and all the times he's had to use a timeout this had to be the first time ever
10:35that he had to use a timeout for a wardrobe malfunction i love the term wardrobe malfunction
10:39it started when justin timberlake and janet jackson did their thing at the super bowl years ago
10:44um and and here it is again so
10:47so
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