This Tuesday, the play-in tournament will start with a poster opposing Miami to Atlanta in Florida. The winner will go directly to the Playoffs, the loser will play in a knockout match on Friday. And for Heat star Jimmy Butler, there’s only one possible scenario.

As we know, Jimmy Butler is not the type to have his tongue in his pocket, he is rather the confident type and does not hesitate to say out loud what he thinks.

In a few hours, the leader of the Heat will face Atlanta in a qualifying match for the Playoffs. Miami, which finished seventh in the regular season following a rather disappointing campaign (44 wins – 38 losses), must actually go through the play-in tournament box to compost its plane ticket to Boston or Milwaukee. Match trap therefore. But for Jimmy, it’s mostly a formality.

“I don’t care what is written regarding me, if I’m a good or bad basketball player. So going into tomorrow’s game ( once morest Atlanta), when we win that game, we’ll deal with the rest later. – Jimmy Butler announces.https://t.co/sFQgEak8Uh

— TrashTalk (@TrashTalk_fr) April 10, 2023

Overconfidence or legitimate trust?

When we know Jimmy Butler’s ability to raise his level of play in the most important moments, and the history between Miami and Atlanta, we lean more on the second option.

J-Buckets has seriously ramped up in recent weeks and there is no doubt that he will be there tonight. Just as a reminder, since the All-Star Break, Jimmy is 25.6 points average, with 5.6 rebounds, 5.9 assists (for only 1.4 turnover) and 1.5 interception as a bonus, all at more than 61% success in shooting and 85% in free throws. Suffice to say that he is ready for the big deadlines of the spring, he who carried Miami to 11 successes in 18 games to complete the regular season.

Another reminder, the Heat smashed Atlanta in the first round of the Playoffs last year, with a series won in five dry runs. Jimmy had mistreated the poor Falcons (30 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals on average), while Atlanta star Trae Young had been extinguished by Miami’s barbed wire defense. So certainly, the Heat seems less solid today than last year, but the Hawks are no more convincing than in 2022. So if we have to bet on someone tonight, clearly it’s Mr. Butler.

Came upon this when watching Heat-Hawks stuff from last year

You never know when Jimmy Butler just goes video game mode lol pic.twitter.com/Wv2jSETEsQ

— Brady Hawk (@BradyHawk305) April 10, 2023

Not only has Jimmy Butler just announced a victory tonight once morest Atlanta, but he has complete confidence in his Heat team to make a run similar to last year. After finishing first in regular play, Miami had fallen in seven games to Boston in the Eastern Conference Finals, moving within a missed shot from Jimmy to go all the way to the NBA Finals.

“Last year no one thought we were going to win either, so it doesn’t matter. Nobody thinks we’re going to win this year, so I don’t care. In 10 years, no one will think we’re going to win. I don’t care too.”

No doubt, Jimmy Butler is ready to thwart all predictions. And the Hawks might well represent his first victim tonight.

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Source texte : The Athletic

central- The Electricity Corporation of Lebanon announced, in a statement, “In addition to its previous statement last week and its previous statements related to large-scale thefts in the northern Bekaa regions, specifically in the outskirts of the town of Makna in the Baalbek district, the thefts of the corners of the iron grilles supporting the high-voltage towers have not stopped and are still going on.” It has been going on for regarding a week, when two new towers of 220 kV, No. 19 and 20, were stolen and toppled, bringing the number of towers that were toppled and stolen in one week to five.

The maintenance teams of the Corporation intervened as soon as the infringements occurred and for regarding four days they have been trying to save the towers that were stolen and have not yet fallen, to discover that during the past two days the 66 kV towers adjacent to the 220 kV towers were also stolen, and there are fourteen towers from No. 52 Up to 65 and also in the outskirts of the town of Maqna, and these towers belong to the Baalbek-Labweh-Hermel 66 kV transmission line. This line directly feeds the Labweh and Hermel stations, and its towers are close to falling, which will inevitably lead to power outages in all areas of the northern Bekaa.

The Electricité du Liban Corporation has warned, through its previous statements, of the seriousness of what is happening and appealed and appeals once more to all security agencies, specifically the Army Intelligence and the Information Branch, and all municipalities, parties, representatives of the region and events, to help reveal the identity of the perpetrators and arrest them immediately. The material losses are huge and the size of the damage is large, and the corporation’s ability to repair this large amount of damage is very limited, and the process of conducting a tender to rehabilitate the lines requires quite a long time, especially since the violations are still continuing and did not stop throughout the past week.

The Electricity Corporation of Lebanon hoped to “immediately respond to its calls before the prohibition takes place and most of the citizens of Baalbek-Hermel governorate are deprived of electricity for long periods that may be months.”