Miami Heat: AUCH Roundtable on the Rookie Of The Year ladder

The Miami Heat are really good this season, due to veterans and returning players, but also a ton due to rookies. How do they measure up though?

The Miami Heat are a really good team this season. They have managed to achieve this due to a combination of things, but more specifically via a certain combination of players.

They have a nice mix of veterans, early career players, and even rookies among the bunch. Speaking of the rookies, Tyler Herro and Kendrick Nunn specifically, they are both playing so well that they are both in contention for the coveted Rookie Of The Year award.

Here is what we here at AUCH think about the scenario. With no further ado, I give you AUCH’s Roundtable on the Rookie Of The Year ladder.

Stefan Alvarez(@stef_alvarez)

Thank you, Pat Riley, Erik Spoelstra, Mickey Arison, Andy Elisburg, Christopher and Jennifer Herro, and even you Austin and Myles Herro. Thank you for blessing South Florida with your extraordinary touch for shooting a basketball while also impressing, and sometimes confusing, us with the fashion you convey. The Miami Heat Nation is forever in debt to you.

I think it’s time for my confessional. Cue up the solo camera, zoom so close into my face that you can see all of my blemishes and the corny backdrop that has an LA skyline or beach line: I was skeptical on Tyler Herro coming out of the draft…

I know I know, crazy right? How can I sit here and praise the same kid I just bashed my team for drafting with the no. 13 pick in the draft?

Well, when you’re wrong, you’re wrong! And I’m not afraid to admit, I was wrong about you Mr. Herro.

Currently no. 2 on nba.com’s ROY Ladder (three spots up from last week) Herro has consistently shown the confidence in his game that is needed in the league. Yes, talent can get you to the league, but confidence is what keeps you in the league.

Herro, who often looks overmatched on both ends of the floor, never backs down from a match-up. He is never scared to take a big shot or even touch the ball in crunch time. I’ve been so impressed with Tyler Herro thus far that I’m actually blown away.