Miami Heat: Goran Dragic and Tyler Herro make them as dangerous as ever
The Miami Heat are on a run right now that could lead to something special. While they’ve been an “ok” team for most of the season, they are beginning to look like a bunch that’s ready to move past just being average.
While they have always been built on defense and toughness, something that they’ve, once again, leaned into this season, they’ve recently found another gear on the other side of the ball. In their last contest, a blowout win over the Philadelphia 76ers, they were up so big that it didn’t have to go that far.
However, in the two games immediately prior to that one, they had two of their highest output games of the year. Although both were against the Boston Celtics, the Miami Heat put up 130 and 129 points, respectively.
What is the difference between them now and earlier in the season though? It’s actually fairly simple and comes down to one thing, well, two to be specific.
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The Miami Heat are on a prolific offensive run at the moment. Tyler Herro and Goran Dragic have a ton to do with it.
When you think about the Miami Heat from last season, their bench was a problem for opposing defenses. It was what separated them from teams, for the most part, last season.
At the top of the year and thus far throughout, Tyler Herro and Goran Dragic who are two major contributors from a year ago, had struggled. They recently found it again.
Tyler Herro missed six games for the Heat recently before coming back against the Timberwolves on May 7th. In that game, he scored 27 points and made six of his eight three point attempts.
Since then, he’s scored 54 points in the last three games and hit 10/17 three point attempts. He hasn’t been alone though.
Goran Dragic is also being very productive. In his last six games, just once has Goran not scored 15 or more points (a nine point game against the Celtics) and has hit 15 of his 36 three point attempts across that span. Here’s what it all means though.
When it matters the most, the Miami Heat can, should, and hopefully, will get the stops they need. Now, it appears that they can score it when they need to as well.
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That makes them lethal again and when it comes to the postseason, as dangerous as ever.