Miami Heat Regular Season Thread 21-22 Vol. 3

[3ammy3uck3ts]

Tyler Herro is not Larry Bird. Tyler Herro is Tyler Herro with higher usage. Lets not get crazy.

I almost fell out of my chair when I saw “Larry Bird”

Lets let him fully develop before we call him a top 8 player to ever play the game lol.

[3ammy3uck3ts]

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[twix2500]

Lost to the Timberwolves was a bad lost

[rate_]

Tyler Herro is not Larry Bird. Tyler Herro is Tyler Herro with higher usage. Lets not get crazy.

Not just higher usage, but improved scoring efficiency and impact as well. +7.1 rTS & +13.2 NetRtg since February

[eddieheatfan]

Tyler Herro is not Larry Bird. Tyler Herro is Tyler Herro with higher usage. Lets not get crazy.

I almost fell out of my chair when I saw “Larry Bird”

Lets let him fully develop before we call him a top 8 player to ever play the game lol.

time will tell i'm hopeful though

[greg4012]

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Remaining schedule only?

[greg4012]

Who's got this Athletic article on Oladipo for the people?

https://theathletic.com/3179546/2022/03/14/heats-victor-oladipo-opens-up-about-struggles-beyond-surgery-the-world-forgot-about-me/

[3ammy3uck3ts]

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Remaining schedule only?

Yes!

[3ammy3uck3ts]

Tyler Herro is not Larry Bird. Tyler Herro is Tyler Herro with higher usage. Lets not get crazy.

I almost fell out of my chair when I saw “Larry Bird”

Lets let him fully develop before we call him a top 8 player to ever play the game lol.

time will tell i'm hopeful though

Do you think he will be a better player than Wade when it’s all said and done?

[3ammy3uck3ts]

Tyler Herro is not Larry Bird. Tyler Herro is Tyler Herro with higher usage. Lets not get crazy.

Not just higher usage, but improved scoring efficiency and impact as well. +7.1 rTS & +13.2 NetRtg since February

Contracts comment was right for majority of the season though. I hope he’s able to keep up his most recent improved play. Would be huge for us in the playoffs

[AirP.]

Tyler Herro is not Larry Bird. Tyler Herro is Tyler Herro with higher usage. Lets not get crazy.

Not just higher usage, but improved scoring efficiency and impact as well. +7.1 rTS & +13.2 NetRtg since February

Yes he's hot from 3pt range, specifically pullup 3s.

Herro's biggest change has been how well he's hit 3s which looks to be a hot streak.
Pre/Post all-star game
C&S 3s 41.2%/44.4%
Pullup 3s 34%/47.7%

To put this in perspective, let's look at Robinson's incredible 3pt shooting season.
C&S 3s 46%
Pull ups 38.1%

You're not as bad as your cold streaks and not as good as your hot streaks.

When Miami plays a good defensive team in the playoffs this year is a time when we can see where Herro really is at. Even at his floor Herro is a good/great outside shooter that can take advantage of bad defenders and with that, he's a way better player then Robinson. I have a feeling Spoelstra has a biased with Robinson since he was a project that succeeded through hard work of the player and coach. It's why I think Strus keeps disappearing from the rotation while Robinson didn't his last 3 years and possibly a reason why Herro is coming off the bench vs starting over Duncan.

[AirP.]

The notebook has different little notes on Lowry, Butler, Herro and Oladipo.

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[AirP.]

Don't worry that the story is screwed up on the first line, weird an editor let that through...

Miami Heat is playing the best basketball of his career.

It's just a quick online piece saying Herro's scoring 20.9 pts a game and Lowry mentions being a facilitator is next.

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[harlem_ball]

Larry Bird was the Tyler Herro of Tyler Herros

[eddieheatfan]

I almost fell out of my chair when I saw “Larry Bird”

Lets let him fully develop before we call him a top 8 player to ever play the game lol.

time will tell i'm hopeful though

Do you think he will be a better player than Wade when it’s all said and done?

again, time will tell. i will say that he will be close to this man right here

[AirP.]

Who's got this Athletic article on Oladipo for the people?

https://theathletic.com/3179546/2022/03/14/heats-victor-oladipo-opens-up-about-struggles-beyond-surgery-the-world-forgot-about-me/

Oladipo had placed his full faith in the surgeons who worked on his torn right quadriceps in January 2019, so he believed the injury was properly addressed. But despite what Pacers doctors were telling him, each morning he felt like “someone was stabbing me in the knee with a knife.” Was his mind tricking him into feeling pain that wasn’t there? Can a trick last through 50-plus games over parts of two seasons?

As it turned out, Oladipo wasn’t crazy. Something was still wrong with that right leg. He was headed for another surgery, on the same quadriceps, after the Heat’s doctors discovered the original procedure from three years earlier hadn’t fixed the underlying issue. But there was more damage done to Oladipo than just the area around his knee and thigh.

For a player who was at the top of his game before the injury, that lingering doubt over his leg was paralyzing, mentally. It led to unhappiness and uncertainty, two things that were alien to him, and it set forth a series of decisions and events that put Oladipo’s career in limbo. It left him searching for the player who seemed poised to become a perennial All-Star and the person who was once so sure of himself with a ball in his hand.

The root cause of all of Oladipo’s troubles — the leg — finally feels better. He remembers the first time he tried a lunge to his right, during an early rehab session. His childhood friends were with him that day. They looked at him and he looked back, in shared joy and amazement. “I was like, whoa, that’s how it’s supposed to feel,” he said. “I’d forgotten how it felt to lean that way without any pain.”

“I know when I’m right and I’m 100 percent physically what I’m capable of doing, so I don’t have to worry about anything but getting healthy,” Oladipo said. “I still plan on being really, really, really good at this game and I still plan on being one of the greats.”

https://theathletic.com/3179546/2022/03/14/heats-victor-oladipo-opens-up-about-struggles-beyond-surgery-the-world-forgot-about-me/
Obviously there is more but these are probably most important to this forum and most already known.

[eddieheatfan]

Who's got this Athletic article on Oladipo for the people?

https://theathletic.com/3179546/2022/03/14/heats-victor-oladipo-opens-up-about-struggles-beyond-surgery-the-world-forgot-about-me/

Oladipo had placed his full faith in the surgeons who worked on his torn right quadriceps in January 2019, so he believed the injury was properly addressed. But despite what Pacers doctors were telling him, each morning he felt like “someone was stabbing me in the knee with a knife.” Was his mind tricking him into feeling pain that wasn’t there? Can a trick last through 50-plus games over parts of two seasons?

As it turned out, Oladipo wasn’t crazy. Something was still wrong with that right leg. He was headed for another surgery, on the same quadriceps, after the Heat’s doctors discovered the original procedure from three years earlier hadn’t fixed the underlying issue. But there was more damage done to Oladipo than just the area around his knee and thigh.

For a player who was at the top of his game before the injury, that lingering doubt over his leg was paralyzing, mentally. It led to unhappiness and uncertainty, two things that were alien to him, and it set forth a series of decisions and events that put Oladipo’s career in limbo. It left him searching for the player who seemed poised to become a perennial All-Star and the person who was once so sure of himself with a ball in his hand.

The root cause of all of Oladipo’s troubles — the leg — finally feels better. He remembers the first time he tried a lunge to his right, during an early rehab session. His childhood friends were with him that day. They looked at him and he looked back, in shared joy and amazement. “I was like, whoa, that’s how it’s supposed to feel,” he said. “I’d forgotten how it felt to lean that way without any pain.”

“I know when I’m right and I’m 100 percent physically what I’m capable of doing, so I don’t have to worry about anything but getting healthy,” Oladipo said. “I still plan on being really, really, really good at this game and I still plan on being one of the greats.”

https://theathletic.com/3179546/2022/03/14/heats-victor-oladipo-opens-up-about-struggles-beyond-surgery-the-world-forgot-about-me/
Obviously there is more but these are probably most important to this forum and most already known.

i'm pretty happy for him but he should play more games because that's the only way he will get his rhythm back. sitting him out on and off will be a disservice for him ...

[Beenie]

time will tell i'm hopeful though

Do you think he will be a better player than Wade when it’s all said and done?

again, time will tell. i will say that he will be close to this man right here

In the confidence department, Herro fits the bill.

But confidence and raw talent by themselves won't get Herro to Bird status.

Larry's IQ and scrappiness though were on another level.

[twix2500]

Do you think he will be a better player than Wade when it’s all said and done?

again, time will tell. i will say that he will be close to this man right here

In the confidence department, Herro fits the bill.

But confidence and raw talent by themselves won't get Herro to Bird status.

Larry's IQ and scrappiness though were on another level.

Not a bird fan, hated him. But Bird was better than Kobe

[3ammy3uck3ts]

time will tell i'm hopeful though

Do you think he will be a better player than Wade when it’s all said and done?

again, time will tell. i will say that he will be close to this man right here

Chill Eddie!!