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.
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Happy New Year everybody!! 🥳🤩 Love seeing my Dubs get blown out if it means my 🐐 gets to rest and come back with a massive game on the second night of the back-to-back! 😊♥️
Nice co-op! 👍🤩
Auch, anyone else hearing a lot of mic white noise in the background? 😢😔
Always an insta click for my man the Apricot!! Nobody does it like you!!!
BRO IS BACK! EVERYONE GET IN HERE A NEW E1P JUST DROPPED!
🔥💙🏀💛🔥 I love these collabs!!! Keep em coming, Apricot!!!
The best! GSW pay this man money or he might take his ball and go home.
LMAOOOO one and only pat spencer 😂😂
"Podziemski, spacing out." 😅
Eric Apri🐐 is back 🎉
Jimmy my GOAT
We're so back!
Oh thank the GODS for another E1P video. You are the PERFECT Warriors YouTuber for me. First of all, I have my own channel… “Physics Problems Solved” It’s a physics tutorial channel. And I’m a Warriors fan. So when you bring in the “right hand rule” I’m filled with JOY! I hope you’re making enough income from your channel to make this worthwhile, but if you still need to keep your day job, please know how much I appreciate your content.
More like a de-evolution. A .500 season would be an achievement for this mess. A very expensive mess at that.
Good to have you back bro!
But I thought the geniuses said Kerr can't coach 😂
QP’s Drei Gläser celebration
I love that Jimmy Butler slows the game down and allows Steph extra rest
Curry is Aang.
Welcome back, Mr. Apricot! We’ve been missing you.
So somehow a channel I've never seen ends up in my subscribe section? Wtf
The pat spencer cut gets me EVERYTIME 😂😂😂😂😂
Please get Jim Park on here
Eric Apricot FTW every time!
Really making this video for no reason. Signing butler was a colossal mistake, Kerr is nothing without steph
Trade Draymond, hield and picks straight up for Porter jr. A third team will get involved to take the experienced players and provide younger players with more picks.
Yaaay Eric Apricot !
Butler evolves us to be 500 😭😭, still love u Jimmy
i laugh so hard when flashing pat movie 😂
Never ever knew i needed ATLA references in bball but im here for it.
Subscribed!
沒柯瑞，吉巴無法帶隊取勝，格林是防守悍將不要小看他😂
Didn’t expect the physics right hand rule to make an appearance here lol
The only real analyst worth watching for Golden State is Jim Park. Everything else is fluff piece.
Eric is an intellectual
so basically a clear out 1v1 with shooters on the floor……
earth bending a fancy word for 1 on 1
I never thought they were losing games because they weren't creating open looks. They were losing because they still can't make the shot.
we've missed you man, love these videos
Welcome back Eric, we missed you
i knew flemings rule was coming!!! love your physics nerd references!!
Great video! Very glad to see Jimmy refreshing things for the Dubs. Let's hope opposition teams never figure out how to counter the Warriors or shoot 3's better than them. That would be a sad day indeed.
Sad the streak is over, but glad you’re feeling more relaxed now. Personally I love the longer videos, so if you want to keep making those but on a looser schedule, I’m sure people will like those too
He still too passive to me. He can average 25 easily as he can create his own shot and has high IQ
that ending hahahahaahahah