Miami Heat: Duncan Robinson Overcoming The ‘Tyler Herro Effect’
Miami Heat: Duncan Robinson Overcoming The ‘Tyler Herro Effect’
On last season, the comparison was to Herro’s outstanding NBA Bubble showing. Plainly, Herro was a victim of the high bar that he had set for himself.
Though expecting progression and the most from one of your best guys aren’t purely wrong, again, context is always important. The fact that he was only “bad” in comparison to himself and his own high bar is valuable context, especially when he was one of the best in the bubble and the best sixth man-type in the league so far this season.
To bring it back around, that’s the same thing that’s happening with Duncan Robinson. A career 40.6 percent shooter from range, Robinson is shooting 36.4 percent from range this season.
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Though you would think he’s sub-30, based on some of the comments you’re seeing, he’s still one of the better shooters in the league. Though shooting only 35.8 percent across his last 10 games (yea, only 36 percent), he has still been good and absolutely crucial to the Miami Heat’s ability to win ball games.
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That’s where the second part of the Tyler Herro Effect comes into play though. Having tremendous skill, a deft touch, an awesome handle, and the ability to finish off multiple wanky platforms aren’t the only things that separate Herro from the bunch.
They absolutely help, but the one thing that separates him from a lot of other ballers is his irrational confidence. Even if things aren’t going his way, you could never tell that this is the case by the way that he continues to play and the confidence with which he still executes his stuff.
Duncan's 700th ended up being worth 4 last night pic.twitter.com/IqQO57IQSB
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The same is the case for Duncan Robinson. Not only has he continued to get the shots up, across the entire course of the season, but he does so in any individual game as well.
Though Thursday was one of his better nights, as the Miami Heat were attempting to come back in a game that Robinson had a huge part in them winning, he kept letting it fly (6-13 from three).
And it paid off!