The Miami Heat are one of the best in the business when it comes to developing young prospects. All of them don’t hit, as they won’t with any franchise, more of them hit in Miami relative to other places.
With that in mind though, let’s look at last year’s Miami Heat first-round draft pick, Tyler Herro. Ascending since the day he arrived in the league, Herro now finds himself as the starting lead guard for Miami, a seeming role reversal for him and Kendrick Nunn from last season.
At the very top of the season, you saw quite a few of the same things that bothered you a bit last year. He seemed indecisive at times, he was a bit all over the place, and was all too often loose with his handle.
The Miami Heat have a star on their hands in Tyler Herro. He’s only about halfway done developing though and that’s the scary part… for everyone else.
However and over the next few games, the last couple of games we have seen, those things have progressively gotten better. Is he an expert yet in the art of point guard, no, however, he isn’t doing some of the same things that he was doing in game one and he continues to add to his lexicon every game.
That’s mainly from the perspective of being a floor general. He has everything else already in his bag.
We know about the ability to sink the jump shot. He can do it off actions, off of screens, off the dribble, or from the spot-up.
We’ve quickly been reminded of how well of a finisher he is at the basket for someone of his athleticism. You either have to be extremely explosive or extremely crafty to be a good finisher at the rim and he isn’t going to ever leave you confused between him and TNT.
The guy just knows how to put the ball in the hole. He’s learning how to best do that while being the best lead guard for Miami that he can be.
For me, his progress in such short times and be that across his rookie year or across only a few games this season, is what’s most important and especially since it has been since those relatively short windows. That’s why, even though I like him as the lead guy now because we need what he can offer at the moment, there’s still a ton of developmental meat left on the bone for him to become an even better player for the future.
