Brimming with confidence, Jimmy Butler asked himself a couple of rhetorical questions as he walked off the TD Garden floor following Miami’s 111-105 win over the Celtics on Friday night.
“They thought he was the answer?” Butler said. “Come on. That was the answer to your Jimmy Butler problem? … That can’t be the answer.”
Butler was talking about Grant Williams. The Celtics didn’t play Williams at all in Game 1. He logged 26 minutes in Game 2, scoring nine points on 4-of-6 shooting and spending a considerable amount of time guarding Butler.