REACTION: Miami Heat SURVIVE as Tyler Herro and Kel’el Ware Deliver Clutch Victory Over Mavericks
Miami Heat notch their fifth straight win as Tyler Herro returns with a clutch mid-range takeover, raising big questions about the team’s evolving identity. Can Herro’s aggressive scoring and improved defense supercharge Miami’s new-look offense—and is Kel’el Ware on track for All-Star status after another dominant double-double?
Wes Goldberg and David Ramil break down Herro’s 24-point explosion, Ware’s rise as an impact big, and Bam Adebayo’s game-sealing defensive stand against the Dallas Mavericks.
Key discussions spotlight Miami’s lineup challenges as Norm Powell, Andrew Wiggins, and Davion Mitchell compete for starting roles, the Heat’s sluggish pace amid shooting struggles, and trade ideas involving P.J. Washington. The hosts debate whether Erik Spoelstra should tweak rotations to maximize Herro’s and Powell’s on-ball chemistry, and why Ware’s recent physicality may be a season-defining breakthrough. Can this Miami squad keep building momentum and solidify its Eastern Conference standing?
00:00 Intro
04:11 Tyler Herro makes his season debut
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Heat opted to rest Powell. He’s suffering from hamstring and Herro is back! So perfect time to allow Powell to fully recover! 😊
Davion, Herro, Powell, Bam, Ware with Wigs and JJJ first off the bench
I think start off with herro, powell, wiggins, bam, ware and see what happen.
3rd game in 4 days on a B2B without Norm, trying to fit Herro in and they won. Not mad at that at all.
Wes can't keep getting a pass for bs takes. Tyler's mid range fits perfectly in this offense. Clearly because that's where norm scores. Wes has taken to bad mouth tyler to get clicks from heat sm. The heat gave up Dallas runs everytime herro was off the court. They also gave up a ton of offensive rebounds. Tyler had more rebounds than bam fyi. Plus 16. Second to ware. Bam was a minus defender. Be better Wes.
Wes over took Greg Sylvander as Bam's biggest apologist. And Tyler obviously slept with his wife when he was in recovery.
Wes you are delusional thinking herro was looking lost. I SAW YOUR COLLAB WITH LOCKED ON MILWAUKEE SAYING CULTURE WITH A LOWER CASE C. GO BACK TO GOLDEN STATE. THINKING J COLE IS NOT A TOP RAPPER IS CORNY ASS HELL.
Spo has gone through multiple seasons without a set lineup. Powell, herro and bam if healthy are starting no matter what. The other 2 will depend on the team we play. Smaller teams likely Davion and Wiggins. Bigger teams likely ware, bam tyler, Powell and likely Davion or jaquez. I really don't think jovic survives the trade deadline.
Dallas is a top 3 defensive team in the NBA. Tyler saw a great fit. He was driving and scoring? 3 steals? He’s just addressing the issue of everyone’s concerns from the playoffs.
Everyone says Powell makes herro tradable. If ware keeps progressing in 2 years when bam is up for an extension he makes bam tradable. Not now. In 2 years.
Herro played great! Looking forward to seeing him draw fouls and hitting threes
Is Herro worth $50+million a year extension.
having Kelel play well goes to show how much Miami missed having size the last several years….
Even though Tyler scored the most on the team, he definitely slowed them down tonight. He didn’t look as lost as he looked inexperienced in the new offense. He just needs more game time to catch up to the team’s speed. It’s not an easy offense to grasp. It takes a lot of thinking at first. As time goes by, it will all become second nature to him 🫡
Ware is starting to play better at the 5 position than Bam. I think he’s gonna pass him in talent in the future. What a player to have
We need to go to the visitor locker room and not let Daniel Gafford leave the building
So he says that he doesn’t fit well in the offense. But at the end of the night the heat were forced to throw him in the game with 5 mins left in the fourth because they were literally about to lose the ball game. And yes the heat were planning on sitting Tyler for most of the fourth quarter because he usually always comes in at the 8 min mark.
Ware is playing too good not to start
Wes analysis is way off. David is right about what affected the Heat are the too many 3pt missed shots. The high octane offense needs to make shots on every angle. But if they are not falling they are doomed much like mike d'antoni's suns in the early 2000s who are often referred to as 7secs or less. But unlike that team, this current Heat team can quickly shift style and be deliberate which happened in this game seeing that their long shots are not falling. You might even say that they are lucky that Herro is back in this game else Bam and Ware wouldn't be able to carry the team when everyone else are missing shots whereas Herro made 67% of his shots, 75% if you removed his 2 missed 3s. That percentage is better than a lot of players' free throw percentage.
This Dallas team is the worse team in the western conference and the eastern conference Miami didn’t play well at all Hero definitely looked rusty his defense looked rusty also. This game should have not been close at all low scoring not good
Dallas have a decent defense but Miami has to play better to look like a championship team Hero had no assists he played like James harden dribble to much not moving the ball correct stop say Dallas defense the test is Detroit pistons 😊
Detroit is the test Dallas is not a playoff team this was not a good game for Miami at all but Miami luckily won
Tyler Herro need to pump up like Larson built so he can attack the rim and not just perform floater all the time. If he has like a speed of Wade and physicallity of Wade then we can extend him.
You see how everybody else numbers dipped when you got Tyler Herro in the lineup
We need a rebounding specialist for when bam and KW are off the court then I think we could be a serious chance for coming out of the east
I would trade Jovic he just doesn’t fit on this roaster trade him to Denver.
Ware will be an all star in the very near future
He LOOKED SO OUT OF PLACEEEE TRADE HIM PLSSSS
Your nit picking seem forced and insincere. Herro is more awesome than expected. Try another noght, not tonight.
Herro messed up the rythym by taking the ball outta mitchell hands in the beginning. He need to watch how lebron came back and slowly workedbhis way in.
It looked like Herro came in focusing on rebounds and steals. He realizes he has to supplant Larsson or Mitchell in the starting lineup. Homie had 7 rebs and 3 steals halfway through the 2nd quarter. Then he shifted his attention towards offense and grabbed zero more rebounds/steals the rest of the game.
i think the heat have more confidence when norman powell is in the line up, anyways happy that tyler is back.
A w is a w
Regarding the starting lineup, I think ya'll are right with the last spot going to either Davion or Wiggins. That may be matchup dependent, and also keep in mind that Spo will give the reserves extended minutes. For example, Jaime had second most minutes played again last night. Expect this to be a pretty even timeshare when all are healthy. That's a big reason our guys can play with so much energy nonstop.
People dont realize mavs is no. 5 in pace while miami is number 1. Defensively mavs is no. 5 while miami is no. 4. From there you will know that the game will really a low scoring especially we dont have norm plus we came from back to back. Then again miami rank 13 offensively while mavs is rank 30. 😂 so its really a nice game to be tested.
It's coming to the point where when Ware is not on the court it looks bad on defense