Tyler Herro
Where do we begin? Phenom? Extraordinary? GOAT? I don’t know about that last one but let’s just start with Bucket, shall we? Miami ran him at point guard almost exclusively which is good to get out of the way at Summer League instead of needing him to do so in the NBA and finding out he’s channeling his inner Magic “I’m not gon’ be here” meme.
It would’ve been great to see him come out hitting like three 3-pointers in a row while being a monster on the defensive end but it took him a couple of shots to warm up. Literally two. He missed the first shot of the game, the type that will most likely be scrubbed from his arsenal being that it was a jumper one step inside the 3-point line as well as pull-up in transition on the left wing.
After that, it was flame on. His first three of the night came with 5:32 left in the first period with the Heat down by ten. He started the second period by getting his shot blocked, getting the offensive board and putting it back up so that at least shows some fight. Herro was just getting going and swished back to back transition threes towards the end of the first half pushing the lead to twenty-nine, the Lakers were looking to get out of the quarter.
The only problem was after the quick score by Jordan Caroline there was almost a full shot clock left for Miami to use. The Heat decided to use that entire time with a 2.8-second difference in-game clock to let Herro iso at the top the key. Defender Nick Perkins took it personally and played “tough” defense and forced a shot clock violation. Looked like a whole lot of fouling to me but who am I?
There was a lot of chirping back and forth, which resulted in double technicals for both players. Since the ref wasn’t going to call anything, Herro was not about to take that. Shortly before he was rested for the duration of the game with the score out of hand, he was 5-for-8 on threes, and you could tell he was in heat check mode. He put up two more that bricked to end the night at 50-percent from deep.