It allows the game to come to him, but lately the strategy has changed. For the past four games, Butler has played with aggression. It has led to the Heat starting to turn things around.
Butler scored a team-high 24 points in Friday’s victory against the Washington Wizards. It was the their second straight win after a seven-game losing streak.I feel like we’ve lost a couple of games maybe because I haven’t been as aggressive as I’m supposed to be,” Butler said. “We talked about how that had to change. You come out and be aggressive, keep everybody on their heels. Because I think when I’m playing like that, it makes everybody else’s job easier.”
Butler averaged 27.2 points the last four games, with the Heat going 2-2. In the previous five games, he scored 20 points just once. A more telling statistics is Butler averaged only 10.2 field goal attempts during those games. The aggression has also shown at the free throw line. Butler has 41 attempts from the line the last four games.
The Heat have a day off before returning home to face the Los Angeles Clippers.
