The Miami Heat know what they have in Tyler Herro, a flat-out bucket getter.
While Herro likely won’t ever be known as a lockdown defender, we’ve seen many offensive guards (such as Kyle Korver) grow to make better reads and improve on that end for contending teams. Even with just the slightest tinkering in footwork and reaction time, the Heat will be able to feature Herro in more lineups that will require picking up the league’s premier guards.
Overall Grade: B-
Many will refuse to buy into Herro’s current stock and you can’t blame them, since he couldn’t make “the leap” which many had hoped for. However, this is truly an unfair assessment, given that he’s played behind a pair of All-Star cornerstones and on a team of groomed veterans.
The Heat will be more invested into their established stars, rather than an unproven whiz kid, which is a respectful approach for building a winning team and the continued development of a young player. That’s, actually, to be expected.
Herro’s time will soon come and it could be very soon. Playing well beyond his years, he’s already received the professional experience that most second-year players don’t get this early into their careers.
And while it remains to be seen if he returns in a Heat uniform next season, the pressure of proving to anyone of his gifted potential, should be the last thing of Tyler’s worries —as he’s already proving it now.