Miami Heat’s Tyler Herro SHATTERS Expectations as New Leader | Can Herro-Ware PnR Save Offense?

Miami Heat’s Tyler Herro SHATTERS Expectations as New Leader | Can Herro-Ware PnR Save Offense?

As he prepares for his seventh NBA season, boy wonder Tyler Herro isn’t a kid anymore, but is he prepared to take on a bigger role in Miami? And how can he work together with Khil Wear? We break down what to expect from the dynamic duo on today’s episode of Locked on Heat. [Music] You are Locked on Heat, your daily Miami Heat podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. [Music] All right, welcome to Locked on Heat, your daily podcast on the Miami Heat. Whether you’re tuning in on YouTube or on your favorite podcast app, thanks for making Locked on Heat your first listen every day. I’m Wes Goldberg here with David Rmill. Both of us are credentialed Heat Media members who cover this team every day. For daily content on the heat, click that subscribe button on YouTube. Make sure you’re following us on your favorite podcast app. Today’s episode is brought to you by Monarch Money. Take control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use the code locked on NBA at monarchmoney.com for 50% off your first year. Have a great show for you today. We’re going to talk about what could be a cornerstone of the Heat’s offense and a free agent that the Heat missed out on in a second. But first, David Talah over the weekend posted photos of him working out with Kel Wear in the gym. I’m going to tell you why I love this. Um, this is Tyler taking on a leadership role within the organization. We heard from several players, and I know you remember this, but we heard from several players at the end of last season about how Tyler stepped up during the Jimmy Butler saga uh as an emotional leader in the locker room. And I think we all were a little I don’t know if surprised was the right word, but I think surprised in at least in terms of how many players came out in support of Ty Herro as an emotional leader in the locker room. We all knew it was Bam who was sort of the team captain, the torchbearer of heat culture from Udonis Hasslam and all these things. And it felt like a lot of that attention was focused on Bam. And we sort of overlooked Tyler in terms of a veteran presence in that locker room, but the players did not. The players one by one during the the exit interview said, “Tyler hero, Tyler Hero, Tyler Hero stepped up in a very big way in terms of being a leader dur while the team navigated all this Jimmy Butler stuff.” And now we’re seeing offseason workouts with him and Kel Wear. It’s the kind of thing we used to see from guys like Jimmy Butler who would take guys under his wing uh and work out with them. It’s the kind of thing we used to see from guys like uh D.Wade, right, who would do something very similar. I’m not saying Tyler Herro is those guys on the court. But to me, this is noteworthy because it’s a sign of new leadership within the Heat locker room. What do you think? I think it’s spectacular. Uh it’s not an easy transition to make and that’s what I was thinking about it when I saw that picture there because we talked about at the end of last season. But there’s a gap there, a hole, a void that needs to be filled within the the nuanced relationship and atmosphere of a locker room because there’s a vocal leader like Jimmy. And we’ve spoken about this before, but I think it’s so much more difficult for fans to understand because I mean we’ve been in those locker rooms. We’ve seen them after wins and we know the jubilation that comes with that. We’ve seen them after losses where it’s so tense that you can cut that tension with a knife. You know, it’s it’s that thick in the air. It just kind of permeates everywhere and you feel it even as a reporter. You’re kind of just there and you sense the these kind of bad vibes. And so, it’s a little difficult to understand that when Jimmy checked out on his team, how much of an effect that had on everybody else. You want to support your teammate. You want to support your brother. You want to support them the person that you’ve gone to war with so many times during the playoffs. But at the same time, it fractures all the relationships and that atmosphere that a locker room works so hard to build. And so when that’s vacated by Jimmy and all of a sudden there’s this obvious just problematic tension there. Somebody has to step in and kind of fill the emotional void. Bam did so. But for Tyler to emerge that way as as somebody who’s very much viewed still as a young player, somebody who’s still figuring himself out or, you know, somebody who came into this team as a rookie at just 18 years old, whatever it was, and then to be able to emerge as a kid coming off the bench and uh the boy wonder, etc., and to be the kind of emotional leader that that team desperately needed. To see him take yet another evolution in that department, I think really bodess well because it’s not just about encore production. We saw that from Tyler last year, but to be able to emerge as a leader, a vocal presence in the locker room, to show by example, to guide players, to ask more of them because he’s willing to do the work from himself. I think that’s incredible. And we’ve always heard about Hero’s work ethic. Ever since he joined the team, everybody has always spoken about it. But now he’s not just demonstrating, but he’s also showing that path to other players, younger players like where I expected to work with others as well, too, to continue to guide them and help them take that next level in their development. It’s the sort of thing that you and I talked about when we were talking about potentially acquiring Kevin Durant. Yes. Having players learn from a pro like Kevin Durant. And again, I I’m sorry that I keep comparing Tyler Herro to all-time greats, but it is that that’s not exactly but you only associate but you only associate those kind of leadership skills from them. And I’ve said it before, I don’t know that Dwayne was necessarily that kind of a leader. He said it himself. He was always more of a lead by example than by words kind of thing. And I I I point to the relationship between him and Michael Beasley. And I think had he been the more vocal leader that he eventually became when he when he came back to the team, he took guys like Tyler Johnson, uh, you know, others on that roster and he kind of helped guide him to that next level. And at the same time, when he was a younger player, maybe he was a little too in his own head or he just didn’t want to do that. Maybe he didn’t have to. Remember, as a secondyear player, he was playing alongside a Hall of Famer, and Shaquille O’Neal. It was although Jack was the big personality and DW has talked about always being a little bit more reserved and only really coming out of his shell during the big three era and if like LeBron learned a lot of things from DW and from the Heat organization that he and eventually took to Cleveland and the Lakers and things like that. Dwight also learned a lot of stuff in terms of off the court how to carry yourself how to be a carry yourself like a star. you and I have done I don’t know it was a few years ago now we looked back on when Dwayne Wade went on Sports Center to announce that he was returning to the Miami Heat and just how awkward he was with the media then compared to what he is now where hosting game shows that I think are canceled now but um podcast going back to your point it’s rare for players to do that period it’s rare for players to take on a leadership role and lead by example and just pull guys into I mean you heard this stuff about Damen Lillard all the time. Again, another alltime great. But you just like how he would just pull guys in that Portland organization into summer workouts and things like that. I think this is going to matter a lot for the on the court product. I really do. It’s the sort of thing that you see guy like point guards do. Tyler Herro’s obviously not a point guard. I want to talk I want to put a pin in that though for this. Exactly. Exactly. So, but what I like about this is it shows a buyin also from Tyler who has been thrown into trade rumors for three straight years. Now, he’s the the center of will they or won’t they in terms of extension talks and the fan base is split on that too. I we’ve done a few episodes on that topic, but he doesn’t care. And that’s the thing I’ve always respected about Tyler Herro trade rumors. He’s like, he’s basically on the trade block and the organization is telling him if we can get Damen Lillard, you’re out of here, buddy. Like they and he does not care. The extension talks does not care. Whatever you think of Tyler Herro, I don’t as a basketball player, whatever. He’s a polarizing basketball player. I get it. It’s fine. We can have the argument over the extension talks, but you can’t take that part for granted where no matter what the noise is around him, right? Real noise or fake noise, right? Real news or fake news does not matter. Whatever the noise is around him, he doesn’t care. He buys in. He does the work. And that’s why you hear stuff about his work ethic all the time. And I respect I respect the hell out of that. Yeah. And this is two straight years now with him being excluded from trade talks. Last year there was no clear target and he was not uh on the table for any particular player. this year. Similarly, Kevin Durant or anybody else that the team might have looked to acquire it was with the idea of playing alongside Bam and Bion her. And you can feel that way however you want to as a fan of this team. But I think that speaks to Hero’s perception and growth within the organization, how they view him as a part of their future. And I think just from hero’s perspective to your point, maybe he’s indifferent to all these things, but that just has to be a relief nonetheless. Like to know, you know what, the organization believes in me to the point where I can kind of cut loose and just be that leader that I’m supposed to because now you’re free. Imagine trying to take on a leadership role four years ago where it’s like, well, don’t don’t put those bags down, right? Start start mentoring players that you might not be playing with. The other thing I like about this too is he this isn’t a new thing we’ve heard Tyler Herro talk about. I mean he he talked about in the locker room postgame once about how he hangs out every day with Kell. Yeah. Like this is a guy who he’s taken under his wing from the rip and that it’s the sort of thing that leaders do and it is remarkable considering what Tyler’s career has been which you outlined well earlier and even comparing it to a guy like D. who did take a little bit longer to get to the point that Tally Herro is at now in terms of this stuff, right? Just in terms of this stuff. So, a lot more to get into. What does this mean for the Heat’s offense on the court? We’re going to talk about that next here on Locked on Heat. Today’s episode is brought to you by Monarch Money. You ever wish managing your money felt easier? Well, with Monarch Money, it can. Whether you’re growing your savings or planning a big purchase, Monarch puts you in the driver’s seat. It’s like having your own personal CFO, giving you full visibility and control over your finances. Monarch Money is more than just a budgeting app. It’s a complete financial command center. You can track all of your accounts, investments, and spending in one place. So, in addition to managing your money, you’re also building wealth. Listen, uh it’s it’s just a great tool to be able to figure out exactly what your goals are for the future. It’ll help you plan. It’ll help you save. It’ll help you manage those things. Right now, if you’re looking to buy a house, it’s a difficult market out there, but it’s more of a buyer market than it’s ever been. Monarch Money can help you achieve your goal faster than you might have expected to. So, take control of your finances with MonarchMoney. Use code locked on NBA at monarchmoney.com for 50% off your first year. That’s monarchmoney.com. Code lockdownba and you get half off your first year. We’ll be right back. [Music] Thanks again for making Lockdown Heat your first listen every day. Uh what does this mean for the Heat’s offense on the court. Will Tyler Herro and Kawware be a featured part of the offense? Specifically that twoman game. I want to touch on that in a second. But before we move to that, one more point on Tyler Herro. I love this for Tyler Herro’s development just in terms of an individual and his and the work that he’s putting into because for years we’ve seen him do two things in the offseason which was Tyler Herro muscle watch right waking up early hitting the gym doing these things and then the two a day workouts in terms of the skill work right the three-level scoring the shooting the layup package all this stuff that he was trying to to work on right and that obviously helped he became an all-star last year but I thought that there was a couple of things missing with the offseason work that I always sort of wanted to see. One of them was defense, which I guess that’s just not maybe he works on it, maybe he doesn’t. I don’t know. I guess it’s just not like Instagram friendly to see a guy doing crab walks and and putting his arms out over and over again. But um but also the passing part, right? And that’s what’s different about this. It’s he’s working with somebody and with somebody who he’s going to have a close relationship with on the court because by acquiring Norm Pal and Eric Sper talked about this with us in Vegas about he said, “Hey, we kind of have kind of have two guards that are going to be handling the offense and running the offense.” Uh Norm Pal is a very good pick and roll playmaker. He gets downhill. I’m very interested to see what that looks like. Talahiro, that’s obviously a work in progress. He’s gotten better, but he’s far from where he needs to be in terms of being sort of that quote unquote lead guard. Yeah. But I love that we’re seeing him in the offseason. I I don’t know that we saw this. We we got photos and stuff. I don’t know that he’s doing this for sure with Kell, but I’d find it hard to believe that him and Kell are just in the gym chucking up three-pointers. I got to imagine that they’re working on their twoman game a little bit. And if they are, which I assume they are. I’m guessing they are, that’s huge. That’s a big piece of the development that Talah Herro needs. I think you’re pretty accurate in that guess. I I I mean I know we have to because they haven’t confirmed it necessarily, but you can imagine that just because of their different offensive skill sets. I don’t imagine wear is going through the same drills that Tyler Hero, right? Hero like here’s how I get into my step back. Right. Yeah. Here how do you create off the balance through the legs etc. you know, Drew Hanland and and kind of, you know, training dummy over there. That’s that kind of work. So, for uh for a guy like Tyler Hero to be working with where you imagine they’ll probably do a lot of simulating pick and roll type situations, how he can find him, you know, with a lob pass, how you can find him with a cut, where to position yourself, etc. And with skill set as a shooter, I think you can see a lot of pick and pop kind of thing as well. So, it’s it’s there’s a lot of opportunities there. So, I do like that. I do like that because we don’t see that very often. We’ve I don’t think we’ve ever seen that from Tyler. It’s mostly just him versus his training staff and whoever that might entail, him trying to find cuts and trying to get to that dribble package and some things of that sort. But to work with a teammate like this, I think bodess really well because that’s the expectation is that he’s going to be able to create more as a ball handler, playmaker for everybody else. I And now is the right time, right? Because we talked a lot last year about wow, Tyler Herro, three-level scorer now and became an all-star. I mean, the guy is a three level. He’s an elite scoring talent. You cannot take that away from him. There’s other parts of his game missing, though. So, this is sort of also the right time for him to start now that he’s sort of mastered the scoring piece of it. Yeah, this is the right time to be adding on these other pieces. I’m hoping that we can see other future uh kind of partnerships like this. Like, why not see Tyler and Bam working together? That’s not to say that they haven’t or that we don’t know about it necessarily, but I I do want to see that publicized. I want them to go into this off season and go to the start of training camp with that kind of approach of we are the leaders of this team. Uh we are responsible for kind of setting the tone. I would love to hear result just reports of them organizing something for a teamwide training or something like that. just even have a week getaway somewhere where they can do all the work that they and I know listen they’re in South Florida so maybe it’s a little different than teams playing elsewhere across the United States but at the same time you just the focus should be just playing on basketball and and and trying to work was at the WNBA All-Star game this last I understand I understand it so I mean look it’s hard to get everybody on the same page but that’s what leaders do like you made the point about Lillard Lillard always organized these kind of what is it like beach workout I can’t remember exactly where it Some of them were on the beach. Yeah. Always an excursion somewhere. Yeah. Exactly. So, you want to see that and you have the opportunity to do so here. Going back to the specific on the court product between Tyler Herro and Kell Wear, the twoman game there. Yeah. That is going to be based on where Miami’s moves have led them in the roster that we’re looking at right now. That’s going to be a huge part of Miami’s offense. And it was towards the end of last year teams started to figure out the Kell wear piece of it. Um and and they were able to start trapping Tyler Herro in terms of the playmaking part of it too. So they need to develop that, right? You look at Tyler Herro, he averaged 0.91 points per possession on just over seven uh pick and roll ball handler attempts per game, ball handler uh possessions per game last season. That’s about the 63rd percentile, which is way higher than what it’s been, but you know, about average in the NBA. You’d want that to be a little bit You want that to be higher. you definitely want that to be higher, especially if he’s sort of your lead guard, your number one option on offense between him and Norm Powell, obviously. Uh it was also the best on the team outside of Jimmy Butler once Jimmy was traded. Um which says a lot that says more about the rest of the heat. I I think you made this point during the season like they might have the worst pick and roll attack in the league and I thought it was a great point at the time and I think it was it was very true and might still be true unless you know Tyler Hero and Kaware take a step up and and and we’ll see how normal can impact that. But, uh, one last advanced stat here, KL Wear, he averaged 1.2 points per possession in just over two pick and roll man, uh, possessions per game, which was better. He was in the 72nd percentile, which is very, very good for a rookie uh, in the league. And that was also best on the team by a large margin. So, they developed. There was something there last year. There was a spark last season that needs to get better. And I think it will. Like I I just I’m imagining, you know, Tyler to the point where he’s commanding a little bit more attention perhaps. Uh I think we saw that evolution last year because he’s able to absorb contact a little bit more effectively. He’s also a threat to get to the line more often than he has at any point throughout his career. Uh you already trust his shooting, but he’s not just a shooter. As good as he is from beyond the perimeter, I think there’s still the strength of his game where he can attack the paint. He’s not going to be ever the elite athlete or anything like that, but I think he’s his I’ve seen with Tyler a better understanding of his timing and how to be able to manipulate defenses just a little bit better so that he can get to his spots more effectively despite whatever physical limitations he might have. And so now that next step in the evolution is once I do draw that double as he will then it’s how to find that open teammate how to get the ball to somebody like where who is such an obvious lob threat a vertical threat who can finish at such a high level. So I I’m very curious to see how this partnership and by the way for wear to figure out that timing too. How many times again he was a rookie where would slip the screen too early or maybe linger a little bit too late or be a beat too late coming up down from the baseline to come up and set the screen or whatever. Just getting that timing with Tyler Herro is going to be I mean when we talk about pick and roll we could talk about okay you got the attention coming off the trap or whatever and this guy is 7 foot one and is a huge lob threat and the athleticis oh now we got the pick and pop. All that stuff is fun. It’s ability. It has nothing to do with I shouldn’t say it has nothing to do with you need the timing. Pick and roll is such a chemistry sport. That twoman game is a dance. And if you don’t have chemistry, it doesn’t matter what kind of ability you have. If you don’t have timing, it doesn’t care. I don’t care what kind of timing you have. All of it’s going to be off and you’re just going to be misfiring over and over and over again. And if you can get that timing down, that’s everything. I mean, we saw with Harden, uh, he pulled Zubac in under his wing with the Clippers, and that over over basically half a season in a summer, became one of the most elite pick and roll attacks in the league last year. And Zubach was a was he an all-star, a borderline all-star last year because of it. And Harden is a much higher level passer than Tyler Herro is. But it does go, the point being though, it takes time to iron these things out despite what kind of ability these guys have. But you also obviously need the ability to go along with it. Um, all right. Uh, the Heat, meanwhile, moving to offseason news. The Heat missed out on a key free agent. More than just missing out though on what could have been a helpful player to this roster. What does this say about where the Heat stand as a destination in the NBA? We’ll talk about that next here on Locked on Heat. All right. In other news, it was reported over the weekend that Marcus Smart accepted a buyout from the Washington Wizards and he is going to sign with the Los Angeles Lakers. David, that was a guy that some Heat fans had their eye on in particular, maybe as part of a Terry Rosier swap, right? The the contracts were close enough. There was reporting that Marcus Smart wanted out from Washington, wanted to go play for a contender, or at least maybe not a contender, but at least a playoff team, I think, is how the report was worded. Um, he certainly gets that with the Lakers. I think he could have gotten that with Miami. I think having Marcus Smart and DaVon Mitchell would have been very interesting. I don’t know. I just know that a lot of Heat fans had their eye on Marcus Smart. Whether or not it was ever realistic. I guess it wasn’t. Um because we never really heard any real reporting, any real traction that Marcus Smart was ever interested in Miami. That said, yeah, because Heat fans had their eye on him. It’s worth talking about. Uh you look at the Lakers offseason, twothirds of their entire offseason has just been getting guys who were bought out between Marcus Smart and DeAndre Aton. The only other guy that I think they added was uh was Jake Laavia as a free agent. So they’re just the Lakers whole strategy is just picking up guys who were bought out. And you know that there’s some stuff happening behind the scenes. Hey, if you get bought out, look, we’re going to be very interested in you. You know, so so on and so forth. I bring this up only because this used to be what the Heat did. And you know, we we think about when Kevin Love got out and everybody knew he’s going to Miami. And you think about the big three era and some of the guys that they were able to get either off buyouts or waiverss or free agency. It just they were always getting guys for cheap who were helpful veterans who wanted to compete. So my question to you David, your thoughts on missing out on Marcus Smart, but more importantly, do you miss when these players always used to sign with the Heat? Do you miss that Heat era? Well, about the Smart signing in particular, I think uh it probably doesn’t work as well with Miami. Uh, and so I’m not totally disappointed. Like I’m c I was curious to see what kind of version of Smart we’d get if he joined the Heat and how that would fit into this season’s goals and maybe even beyond that. But I I think from what it seems like Miami just wasn’t interested. And I I I understand it. You you you’ve got Mitchell who’s likely to be your starter. You’ve got just drafted Yakushionis. I’m sorry, not starter. Mitchell’s not going to be starter, but he’s going to be your backup probably. You’ve got Hero. That’s what it is. I think after the Norm Pal acquisition, it you did not need Marcus Smart because you’ve got now probably DaVon coming off the bench and it’s like where’s Marcus Smart kind of play. Exactly. So there’s just not a need for him. Um do I miss the era? Absolutely. Because it was it signified how Miami was viewed around the league is that we have our top tier town. We’ve got our superstars already in play whether it was the big three or anywhere other incarnation, Jimmy Butler, etc. Bam. you have your all-star presence, your all-star core already locked in. And this is just, you know what, I’m making money off the buyout anyway. I can afford to take a cheap deal because I do want to extend my career. I do want to play for something, and I’ll have a very clear-cut role playing alongside whatever star there was on this team and and they’re going to compete for a title because that’s just who Miami is. That reputation is still intact. Miami always plays hard. They always make the most out of their ability, etc. uh yet their their final destination within the context of the regular season or playoffs is probably a lot lower than it has been in a long time. And so nobody really legitimately views them as a contender. And so I can understand where a veteran like Smart wants to compete for a title and maybe the Lakers might present that opportunity with the addition of Eightton if he can get to that next level of playing alongside LeBron and Luca. So uh it just makes sense. Miami no longer able to do so. But I did like those that it it gave fans some hope because the trade deadline would always come and go, but you knew they were going to be able to pick up veteran X for the buyout market because Miami was always a player. They were always a fringe contender and they did have their superstar core in place where you knew a veteran would say, “You know what? I like the organization. I’ve heard so many good things about it. I know they’re going to treat me well here. I’ll consider joining with Miami.” whether it was Kevin Love or Joe Johnson or everybody in between, you knew that they were always going to find a player like that. Uh and unfortunately that just doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. Uh you think about the big three, Eric was supposed on a buyout. He was waved on an amnesty uh from the amnesty clause that that teams had way back then, but uh Chris Anderson was a big guy that this team like Eric Spolstra lobbyed for Chris Anderson. Yeah. Um and and they ended up the Nuggets ended up waving him with their amnesty clause and then the Heat picked him up on a couple of 10-day contracts and then signed him to a full contract and all these things and um I mean that was a great one. You think even a guy like Rashard Lewis again towards the end of his career but not unlike Marcus Smart but signed for that last year and to a different extent Ray Allen which a much bigger sort of piece but that was the sort of piece that the Miami Heat used to get. But to your point, that was when they were that’s when they had LeBron at the peak of his powers. DWade, Chris Bosch at the peak of his powers. Like they had all these guys and you were just, “Okay, I’m going to go in here. I’m going to play an ancillary role over here. I’m just going to do my thing at this stage of my career and we’re going to win a bunch of games.” And I probably just kind of I’m kind of buying a ticket to the NBA finals by just signing with this team. And that’s not necessarily what the Lakers are. I don’t know that in this in the in this league with parody the way it is, there’s any team that is like that big three team that was just like pretty much guarantee and and you know since the Kevin Durant Warriors who also got a bunch of these guys whether it be Demarcus Cousins or whatever it was like that but um there’s not really a team like that but I do think that players like Marcus Smart see LeBron James and is like you know what I’ve kind of always wanted to play with that guy he’s an all-time great they got as good a chance as anybody in the West outside of Oklahoma City maybe I don’t know that I believe that but I could see Mark Smart believing that uh let me just go sign there and plus it’s in LA which was al also the thing that Miami always had so it’s not to say that the Heat can’t get back there, but they’re also going through a different phase of their team building process and and we do know that they are they want these rotation spots for some of their young guys. Norm Pal notwithstanding, right? Like they are going to be playing guys like Nico Yoic and Hime Hakez and and they want to find minutes for Kasparus, Yakonis and Kellwware obviously and all these guys too. So, um and Davon Mitchell, you know, who also counts maybe as one of those young guys. Yeah. Um, I don’t know that he would have fit a need much either, like smart, not we talked about the the roster construction being what it is, but he’s never been much of a playmaker. He’s definitely a streaky shooter and those are the two areas that Miami is looking for the most and to shore up with their guard rotation. It’d be nice if he could strengthen those things, not be a weakness, uh, you know, detract from them even further. So that being the case, unless there’s an injury and you hope that that’s never the case to a guy like Mitchell who does provide that kind of point of attack defense at such a high level. Yeah. There’s no real need for a guy like Smart. And I don’t know that Smart Maybe that makes more sense if they had made the Kevin Durant trade and they’re looking to be that kind of team and just say, “Hey, we got a two-year window. Let’s just go for it.” Maybe then it would have made sense. But clearly the Heat have gone in a different direction. Um, all right. That’ll do it for us today. Thanks so much for making Lockdown Heat your first listen today. For your second listen, find the Locked on NBA podcast where there is no offseason. Doug Matt and Hayes keep you up to date on contract negotiations, rumors, and everything you need to be the most informed NBA fan. Find Locked on NBA on YouTube and wherever you get listened to the podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day.

Is Tyler Herro ready to lead the Miami Heat? His offseason workouts with Kel’el Ware are turning heads.

Wes Goldberg and David Ramil analyze Herro’s emerging leadership role and its impact on Miami’s roster dynamics. They break down the potential of a Herro-Ware pick-and-roll tandem reshaping the Heat’s offensive strategy. The duo also discusses Marcus Smart joining the Los Angeles Lakers and what it reveals about Miami’s current free agent appeal.

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3:14 Herro emerging as emotional leader
11:00 Herro’s offseason development and two-man game
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20:11 Heat miss out on Marcus Smart

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