By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Both are veterans and both want to win, so it’s not a surprise that Slovenian guard Goran Dragic and Jimmy Butler proved to be quite a match in the Heat.
“Off the court, we spend a lot of time together, we watch films and I try to make his job easier, he is trying to make my job easier and that’s how we communicate”, said Dragic on the matter after the third win over Indiana.
Dragic explained his dynamic with Butler and how this helps the Heat suddenly becoming a dark horse in the East: “We try to figure out how are we going to play, how are we going to defend and tonight, he set a backscreen for me, I hit that corner three. In transition, when he steals the ball from the guy who is in the top of the key, those are easy baskets and that’s what we need”.
And that’s why when Indiana cut a 20-point lead to two, Dragic, Butler, and the Heat didn’t panic: “We know that they were going to make a push. Of course, we expected a push which would have been a little bit smaller, but at the end of the day they got some calls, they made a couple of shots, we put them in the free throws line too many times and from there they got confident. We just stayed within our principles on how to defend, on how to share the ball in the offense, and brought that game home”.