Jimmy Butler says Heat relaxed a little bit after Antetokounmpo’s injury

Jimmy Butler said that Miami Heat relaxed a bit after Giannis Antetokounmpo’s injury.

Per ESPN, The Heat let their foot off the gas when reigning league MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo reinjured his right ankle early in the second quarter of Sunday’s game.

“Well, it shouldn’t affect ours, but I think that we relaxed a little bit,” Butler said when asked if the Heat’s play changed after the Bucks’ big man exited. “And we stopped playing basketball the right way. We stopped guarding. We stopped living by our defensive principles. We weren’t getting 50-50 balls. We were getting outrebounded. It was just all bad.”