Playing buy or sell with 2019-20 NBA preseason trends
Tyler Herro is legit
You might remember Tyler Herro as the sharpshooting, s**t-talking white boy from Kentucky’s run to the Elite Eight. With his supreme confidence, regular heat checks and cocky demeanor, it’s a wonder he didn’t go to school at Duke.
Herro lit up NBA Summer League, and so far, his shooting ability has carried over to the preseason as well. Scoring the Miami Heat‘s first 14 points on a perfect 5-of-5 shooting against the Atlanta Hawks was his viral moment, but he’s been good aside from that first quarter detonation against Trae Young, one of the league’s worst defenders.
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Through his first three games, the young shooting guard put up 16.3 points and 4.7 rebounds in just 24.7 minutes per game, shooting 54.5 percent from the floor and drilling eight of his 15 attempts from deep (53.3 percent).
We’d include his fourth preseason game on Thursday, but Herro was ejected in the third quarter for getting into it with Michael Carter-Williams. He’s been in the league for five minutes and he’s already an elite “love him if he’s on your team, hate him if he’s not” guy.
MCW pushes off Tyler Herro on offense...Herro hits a 3 on the other end of the court and gets in MCW's face....MCW gets ejected later in the game for going after Herro pic.twitter.com/AYfVYmkfjm
— Gifdsports (@gifdsports) October 18, 2019
Herro has been lights out from downtown, and although four preseason games is a small sample size, his belief in his game is already shining through. He’s not afraid the jack up 3s as a spot-up shooter, coming around screens or even on step-backs off the dribble.
Heavy‘s Sean Deveney says Herro and Bam Adebayo are untouchable in trade talks for the Heat, and while that might seem premature, it’s quickly becoming clear they found a diamond in the rough at No. 13 in this year’s draft.