More on Spencer Butterfield

Sacramento Bee:

"Tuesday: He scored 13 points on 4-of-7 shooting (including two three-pointers) in a 92-89 double-overtime loss to the Portland Trail Blazers. Butterfield played 23 minutes, 36 seconds, and had four rebounds. He helped send the game to a second overtime when, with 1.2 seconds left in regulation, he made his first free throw, and then intentionally missed the second, allowing teammate Trey Lyles to tip it in to tie the score."

"An unusual thing happened Tuesday afternoon toward the end of the Utah Jazz’s summer league game against the Portland Trail Blazers.

Former Utah State player Spencer Butterfield, called a basketball shooting “sniper” by Jazz assistant Mike Wells, helped his team force a sudden-death overtime by making two free throws and then, oddly enough, by perfectly missing a third one.

The Summer Jazz ended up losing to the Blazers 92-89, falling to 1-2 in NBA Summer League action at UNLV.

But Butterfield’s savvy and well-executed missed free throw gave his team a chance it wouldn’t have had otherwise.

With time running out in overtime and the Jazz down by four points, Butterfield was fouled in the act of shooting a 3-pointer. His first two makes pulled Utah within two points. That’s when Jazz power forward Trey Lyles, who continues to tear up the summer league play on the offensive end of the court, had a quick chat with him.

“I just asked Spencer how he was going to miss it,” Lyles said, “so I knew where the ball was going to be at.”

Butterfield, almost as if he were calling a H-O-R-S-E shot, explained that he planned on tossing the ball off of the left side of the backboard and onto the rim so that it would create a long rebound.


“So,” he told Lyles, “be ready for it.”)...

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