One of the pros of moving on from Smart and Grant is that we no longer have someone that would sink to Jimmy Butler’s level mid game. Tatum doesn’t engage. Neither does Jrue, D White, or Horford. Jaylen still speaks up for the team but doesn’t find himself in the distracting mental warfare that Butler uses.
I think we still would have beat the Heat in a low pressure 6 if Butler played. The current team is a different wagon than what JB faced last year.