ShulaDon92 wrote:AirP. wrote:IceColdCubano wrote:Its funny because whenever he has these great games, the team usually always plays completely terrible all around and the game ends in a loss. Its almost like the correlation here is that, if the opposing team decides to let Herro go for it, score at will but lock out everyone else. Instead, when Herro becomes the focal point and gets hunted and locked up the rest of the team scores at will. Some teams have figured it out I guess, Let Herro do his thing on offense, because they don't amount to anything positive since he will give up equal opportunity or more on defense. Lock up the rest of the team and prevent them from having a positive offensive flow.
I just went back to watch Herro's shots because I had to watch a live stream vs being able to reverse and see things like I can with league pass, it seemed to me that Toronto was fine letting Herro score and watching his FGAs confirmed that, but credit Herro, he did hit his shots.
Toronto let Herro have single coverage all night long and the guys he shot against weren't the good wings (at least not when he took his shots). Herro took a lot of shots vs Toronto's bigs in the 1st half (yes, I remember Barnes on him and taking the ball away from him) and in the 2nd half most of his shots were over and around FVV.
If you look around, Strus played nearly 26 minutes as the 3pt shooter and he got 3 FGA, Bam routinely saw 2nd defenders running his way, Herro, not so much. Bam and Herro took 1 less than half the team's FGA.
I think teams are good with Herro shooting against single coverage (and he'll have some good games when that happens) and doing that allows them to cover everyone else off ball better with less scrambling. Also, having a high-volume guy like Herro shooting can take everyone else out of the rhythm of shooting which can also make them drop their effort level. These are the reasons you run an offense through a PG, so he makes sure to keep everyone engaged, Herro doesn't do that, he hunts for his shot unless it's a called play for a quick dump off to Bam or drive and kick.
Here's a link to the video's of Herro's shot attempts last night from NBA.com.
Sure but Jimmy didn't play. That changes the dynamic.
Few factors involved. May have been a look ahead game also. We may have even won had Jimmy suited up. Keep in mind Herro had 6 assists, could've been more had teammates made their shots. It wasn't like he was completely dominating the rock.
