Miami Heat Patience: Enough To Endure More Tyler Herro Struggles?
Herro appeared in 36 minutes off the bench, the most of any Heat reserve. While having an abysmal performance, he finished with just eleven points on 4-16 shooting and missed all seven of his three-point attempts.
There were also a few questionable plays from Herro down the stretch in Sunday’s loss. In the third quarter, he had two back-to-back forced layup attempts against Myles Turner, the NBA’s league-leader in blocked shots per game, with both attempts ending in rejections.
As he still managed to come up big during the final four minutes of regulation, Herro gave Miami two huge scores, which included a made running layup and a transition pull-up jumper to cut the Pacers lead to four.
The game would then head into overtime at 98-98 after Butler failed to capitalize on his second free-throw attempt in the waning moments, that would have served to put the Heat ahead but didn’t and instead, tied the game. The Heat opened up an early five-point lead in overtime, but the Pacers went on a run of their own, outscoring Miami 11-8 in the extra period.
Herro’s only attempt from the floor came from a three-point heave with 30 seconds remaining. Indiana would hold on to the win as the Heat failed to pull out a crucial victory after losing to this same Pacers team just days before.