The Miami Heat are known for their ability to get players into peak shape when they play there. Tyler Herro embodied that philosophy throughout the suspension as well.
The Miami Heat are human too. That is important here as most of us experienced a myriad of things throughout and after the nation’s initial quarantine period ended as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Most commonly dubbed the quarantine 15, a seeming homage to the freshman 15 many are said to experience during college, they both reference a weight gain associated with both of those periods in time.
While there are many supposed reasons for the freshman 15, such as poor ramen or alcohol diets, the reason for the quarantine 15 is pretty simple and direct. While being confined to our homes during that period, many of us did nothing but ate everything.
There. Explained.
Well, many of us, not including the Miami Heat’s rookie sensation in Tyler Herro. Here is what I mean, per the Twitter account of the South Florida Sun Sentinel’s Ira Winderman.
Tyler Herro, "I feel the best I've ever felt in my life. My body fat's at 5.5 percent. So I'm excited to be started."
— Ira Winderman (@IraHeatBeat) July 15, 2020
The Miami Heat expect their players to be in the best shape out of any team in the NBA. Tyler Herro apparently gets the message.
While we didn’t stick the calipers to him ourselves, you can be certain that the Miami Heat did. What this means is that even if that “5.5 percent” is a bit of a stretch, and it might not be, he is definitely somewhere close to that.
You say that because he was brazen enough to go this far out on a limb with it publicly, especially considering the fact that the Miami Heat regularly check these things and definitely have checked since the team has been able to get back if we know them like we think we do.
The Miami Heat will need all of the Tyler Herro that they can get as they look to get restarted in the Orlando Bubble. They tip things off six days from now in the last game of the first day of NBA restart scrimmage games against the Sacramento Kings.
Having only played in 47 of a possible 65 games during his rookie season already, only appearing across seven minutes and 18 seconds in the Heat’s last game before the suspension, which also just so happened to be his first game back after missing 15 straight games with injury.
Although he really hasn’t played since February, 3, with his pedigree and Coach Spo’s ability to get the most out of his guys, I trust he’ll be ready to give the Heat some great minutes in the restart. Either way though, he’ll be in great shape to do it.