Explain: How Jimmy Butler Evolves the Warriors Offense | Eric Apricot

In this episode of Explain with @EricApricot, we explore how Jimmy Butler inspired Steve Kerr to evolve his offensive system by combining their elemental basketball philosophies. The video analyzes Kerr's "water bending" motion offense influenced by Phil Jackson's Triangle Offense and Greg Popovich's Spurs system, contrasted with Butler's "earth bending" isolation style. We study in detail clips of the Head Tap play from 2017 to see how Jimmy transformed Kerr's complex off-ball movement scheme into "Jimmy Standard Formation" - a predictable isolation play that stabilizes non-Steph minutes. The episode examines the scheme's success and then the struggles against Minnesota's single coverage, and analyzes clips from the recent Nets game on 2025-12-29-GSW-BRK to see how GSW are now adding water bending elements back through cuts and off-ball movement to create a hybrid system. Catch Eric's first episode here: https://youtu.be/2WNkLLQ68T8 Vote Jimmy for All-Star at Warriors.com/Vote