Scholarship table
Jeesh, Jokic is good.Wild take, I know.
Christian Braun, sheesh
That was a important last minute for the Heat. 14 is manageable.
Miami shot 37%, 31% from three. Vincent regressed to the mean. But Tyler Herro is still “addition by subtraction” right? 🙄🙄🙄
they'll be just fine
He had a bad gane and his early foul trouble didn't help. I suppose if Herro was playing he would have never had a single bad performance.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
But even if we accept the premise that the Heat are better when Vincent plays than Herro, this shows why addition by subtraction is not a thing in sports (unless a guy causes locker room issues). It would have still been better for the Heat to have Herro so when Vincent is having a bad night, they can sub in Herro who is better than the guy backing up Vincent last night. If the Heat are truly better with Vincent, having Herro available shouldn't change that. Spo is one of the top basketball coaches in the world. I don't think he would blindly play Herro over Vincent if his team was truly better with Vincent. If both were available and his team was truly better with Vincent, he would bench Herro and play Vincent big minutes.
You have to look at the playoffs as a whole. Vincent and Martin have been huge in their wins. Vincent isn't better than Herro, it about the rotation now and the collective production of several players. Herro is a very good iso scorer but that would not have been a winning formula for the Heat in the playoffs and would have truncated the minutes of three players that have all been highly important to their Finals run.
This guy gets it. Do we really think it's just a coincidence that after a full season of playing every team in the NBA, the Heat lose Herro and then play the 3 best teams in the NBA plus a solid but not spectacular Knicks team and have a much better winning percentage and a much, much better offensive efficiency? Their offense changed without Herro. The ball actually moves. They're clearly a better team without Herro in the lineup.But oh no! They looked bad for a single game!
The Heat in this series? They are not “just fine.”
Or Denver could be the better team.