I am not going to turn and look otherwise, because I respect him as a motherf-ing player." He's going to have to make every single tough shot the rest of the series.
"For me, it's a matter of understanding, yeah, sure, you did 'poke a bear.' And how are you going to respond? Because for me, he made some tough shots. "No matter if I lit him up tonight or not, he is going to do that," Williams said. Williams said he expected this type of performance from Butler whether he gave him extra motivation or not. We've got to focus in and let this s- hurt, but at the end of the day, we've got to come in tomorrow and really focus on what's next." "So at the end of the day, tonight is tonight. I'm ready to come back and come into Game 3 with a better mentality, and I know this team is as well. You either come back before you die or you come back and get a win, and I'm not willing to die in this finals. My mom always taught me, and my dad as well, you get your ass kicked and you don't come back home until you come battle again. He got the best of me tonight, and at the end of the day, it's out of respect, because I'm not going to run away from it. "I'm a competitor, and I'm going to battle. "I think he said something and I just responded," Williams said. I knew that you could kind of see it in his eyes that he was ready to go after that."įor his part, Williams defended his response to Butler, noting he wasn't going to back down from anybody on the floor. "Knowing Jimmy, at that point in the game, you get him going, we'll take mad Jimmy any time. "I knew it was going to be good for us," Heat guard Caleb Martin said.
After the game, his teammates were surprised that Williams pushed their star player to that point, but they were glad he did. I just don't know if I'm the best person to talk to."īutler, who scored nine of his team-high 27 points following Williams' initial words, once again showed why he has been arguably the best player in the postseason by making clutch plays down the stretch. "When people talk to me, I'm like, OK, I know I'm a decent player, if you want to talk to me out of everybody that you can talk to. It pushes that will that I have to win a lot more. He hit a big shot, started talking to me. "But that's just competition at its finest. The Heat closed the game on a 24-9 run and left Massachusetts with a stunning 2-0 lead in the series.īutler admitted that the exchange got him rolling down the stretch. On his way back down the floor, Williams began jawing with Butler, who proceeded to smile and then responded by hitting his next shot and getting fouled by Williams for a 3-point play.Īfter the basket, Butler immediately got head-to-head with Williams as the pair exchanged words and were each assessed a technical foul. The pivotal sequence came midway through the fourth quarter after Williams drained a 3-pointer to give the Celtics a 96-87 lead with 6:37 left. Heat's Jimmy Butler: Exchange with Grant Williams fueled meīOSTON - Miami Heat star forward Jimmy Butler has spent his life overcoming people who have slighted him, so it should come as no surprise that, in the heart of a hard-fought 111-105 victory over the Boston Celtics in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals Friday night, Butler made forward Grant Williams pay for talking trash to him.
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