Miami Heat: Tyler Herro’s resourcefulness a key reason he finishes games
The Miami Heat are off to an epic start to their 2019-20 Season. While many players have a huge hand in it, rookie Tyler Herro makes a special impact.
The Miami Heat are off to one of their best starts as a unit, a team, a franchise, and an organization in quite a few years. Record wise alone, their 15-5 is enough to holster them firmly in the second slot in the NBA’s Eastern Conference at the moment.
From other perspectives, they have gotten off to a great start as well. When thinking about their prized free-agent acquisition in Jimmy Butler, it hasn’t been flawless and only due to injury or illness, but it has been a wonderful transition and debut for the fiery and enigmatic swingman.
When thinking about the further development of players that were already on the roster, they have had a wonderful start there as well. Bam Adebayo has jolted himself into the ranks of at least several different regular-season award categories, Most Improved, Most Valuable, and the Defensive Players of The Year Awards. Justise Winslow has continued to show the stuff that drew high praise from people last season.
If you take a look at Duncan Robinson, he too has continued to be the player that the Miami Heat thought they were getting when they brought him into their system. Kendrick Nunn, although signed on the final day of last season, has also continued to blossom despite his streaky nature.
Even when you look deeper at who they are continuing to bring into their system, the start this year is phenomenal. Chris Silva is a handful, while only playing limited minutes and currently biding his time on a two-way contract, although he will never see the G-League if you ask me. The story here though is Tyler Herro.
The rookie might turn out to be the steal of the draft, falling to the Miami Heat at the 13th spot. He hasn’t been a starter this season, but he does play a major role in finishing for the Miami Heat on most nights. This can be attributed to a few reasons.
He is effective as a combo guard whenever he is on the floor, being capable of doing everything you need your off-ball shooter to do, while also being capable of operating as the on-ball playmaker/scorer.
Something else of note and contrary to popular belief, he isn’t as awful of a defender as many would have you to believe. Lastly, when looking at what it takes to win games in the NBA, you need tough shot makers. Herro is one of those.
A statistic that reflects his expertise in the area is his 1.57 points per possession on spot-up shooting plays, which ranks second in the entire NBA, only behind Chris Paul. That means that more often than not, when he touches the ball, he’s going to get a bucket.
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That is why he helps the Miami Heat to close games. The value of the things he excels at is immense because they are crucial elements to winning games in the NBA and he already knows how to use them to do so.