The tension in Golden State Warriors is gone and now, players can joke about it. Jimmy Butler even has an unusual way of describing how he felt when Steve Kerr and Draymond Green figured in a shouting match on the bench during win over the Orlando Magic.
“It turned me on a little bit,” Butler told reporters after their win over the Dallas Mavericks on Christmas Day.
The team is now on a three-game winning streak since that confrontation.
Butler explained that what went down is something natural in an organization filled with personnel who cares deeply about winning and it is now time to move on.
“That’s just part of the game,” he said. “When you’ve been together for so long, y’all are going to have arguments. It’s not going to be quiet all the time, and that’s okay. You’ve got two fierce competitors who have won it together and want to continue winning. We know what it is. If you’re looking at me and I’m just looking up, I expect that to happen.
“That’s okay. We move on from that.”
Winning heals everything, indeed.
Jimmy Butler’s joy is back
Warriors have figured things out. That’s how Butler is feeling right now.
“We streaking baby! We’re guarding at a high level, making shots, we’re more so on the same page,” he said.
“We just gotta keep being together. It’s not gonna be all good, not gonna be all bad, but we need to stay somewhere in the middle.”
Butler’s touches is one of the many issues fans have brought up during Warriors struggle early this month. He may have scored just 14 points but he needed to score that much as the team played like a well-oiled machine.
Stephen Curry averaged 43.5 points per game in two losses since his return but this time, he does not need to score that much. Six players scored in double digit in win over Mavs.
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