Miami Heat: Tyler Herro’s Game 1 Not His Best But Provides Reason To Bounce Back

The Miami Heat head into Game 2 of their opening-round NBA Playoff series against the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday on the heels of embarrassing the Hawks on Sunday. Holding Trae Young to the worst playoff game of his career, possibly his worst of any game of any sort this year, they know that they need to go into Tuesday’s game focused and locked in.

Trae Young typically enjoys being in hostile environments or tough situations, showing a penchant to perform well in most of them, that’s something that the Miami Heat should definitely be aware of. However, that has proven to bite him in the behind, at times, specifically with the Miami Heat.

Outside of just what Young can do they’ll still be missing their big guy, Clint Capela, though another big guy in John Collins played 21 minutes in his return to action on Tuesday. So, they should have him going in this contest.

The Miami Heat didn’t get a great Tyler Herro Game 1 against the Atlanta Hawks. If he’s who he has always been, you can expect fireworks from here on out.

While that’s the lowdown on what to expect from some of the opposition’s key pieces in Game 2, the Miami Heat are probably hoping for a better showing from one of their own key pieces as well. Finishing Game 1 with just six points, five rebounds, and five assists, Tyler Herro didn’t have his best showing.

You do love the all-around play and contributions, such as the two steals he added in. However, the six points scored were a far cry from the top-25 scorer’s season average of 20.7 points per game.

The other thing you really hate about his showing was the five turnovers. He looked a bit out of sorts during the game, at times, perhaps too amped up but you know the guy has the mentality to contain himself.

That’s one of the biggest reasons why, at this point, it doesn’t even matter because, in the grand scheme of things, the Miami Heat still got the victory.

Though Tyler Herro is, has been, and will be a huge part of what they do moving forward, hopefully for a very long time, they proved late in the season that they don’t need him to go off every single night for them to win against anybody.

Now, you want him to be electric on way more nights than he isn’t, but it’s also nice to know they can afford the random off-night from the guy too. However, that’s not the only positive in this.

With the type of guy that he has always seemed to be and with him having a pretty destitute performance in Game 1, you can expect that you’ll get the best of him moving forward, definitely in Game 2.