Jimmy Butler sat in the visiting locker room amid a small gathering of media members following Game 5. A reporter asked how he felt the team should approach the time leading up to their must-win Game 6. Before he could finish his question, Butler had an answer.
“Forget about it . . . we got our ass kicked. Simple as that, no other way to put it,” he asserted.
There are a multitude of words that can be used to describe a blowout loss — discouraging, humbling, shocking, frustrating, etc. — and countless ways in which it can be dissected.