![]() ![]() ![]() How this will all affect the bench is a different story. Considering he should be cashing in on plenty of off-ball opportunities as it is, there’s little risk attached to this move as it relates to the starters. In other words, Herro’s gravitational impact as a starter may have a lower floor than it might’ve with that spots previous incumbents, but the upside for consistently altering the geography of the floor is far greater due to Herro’s abilities after the threat of the initial catch. If teams start to feel like they have no other choice but to send two to Herro, there may be no single greater developmental possibility this season which would have a greater impact on Adebayo. This is a moot point if teams commit to blitzing Herro, who doesn’t square up on a dime in quite the same way as Miami’s other two shooters, more often when he uses a screen, but from what we’ve seen of that coverage so far in a limited sample size is that it’s been targeting Herro more to create turnovers rather than as a last-ditch maneuver to get the ball out of his hands. Strus and Robinson, whichever of them were starting over the past few years, were often the most reliable way for Miami to draw two defenders to the ball and get Adebayo a little bit of a downhill runway where his skillset could really shine. Despite being a deadly shooter, he has a different sort of gravity to that of Max Strus or Duncan Robinson, guys who freak defenses out flying around screens and handoffs with the turbo trigger held down. The questions that come up with Spoelstra’s new lineup are only tangentially related to Herro. It was only on threes taken after multiple dribbles, the type you’ve seen for years from the likes of Steph Curry, Trae Young, Luka Doncic, James Harden, et all that Herro’s percentages plummeted. The defense flies out at you so hard that you can just take a simple bounce to the side and let it fly unencumbered. One dribble and one dribble only is typically a relocation dribble. You might think one dribble is fairly arbitrary, but those are important because they’re often catch-and-shoot shots that aren’t logged as such in the play-by-play. That was the best mark in the league among the 42 who took at least 50 such shots. 9 among the 117 players who attempted at least 200 catch-and-shoot looks, but his real hidden superpower was that he shot 49.3 percent on all threes taken after one dribble, per Second Spectrum. It flew a bit under the radar last season as Herro blossomed into carry-the-bench role, taking the kind of do-it-yourself star shots that will always garner more attention, but Herro was one of the best off-ball shooters in the league. ![]()
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