Good news for the Heat: Tyler Herro is back! According to The Athletic, the Miami shooter is traveling with his teammates for a series of three trips. It will start tonight as the Heat travel to the Toyota Center to face the Rockets.
Absent for 20 games due to a hyperextended knee and a foot injury, Tyler Herro could therefore be in uniform this evening and he will not be too much to help the Heat obtain this 6th place, synonymous with qualification direct to the playoffs. Moreover, after this trip to Houston, Erik Spoelstra's players will go to the Pacers, the current 6th in the Eastern Conference. A victory would allow them to win the “tiebreaker” and to get back in front of Tyrese Haliburton's partners. So this is a decisive weekend for the Heat.
After having already missed almost the entire 2023 playoffs, Tyler Herro is experiencing a new season at the pace of injuries. Having missed a month and a half of competition between November and December, the Miami fullback only played 36 matches. The most frustrating thing is that he is perhaps having one of his best career seasons with 20.8 points at 40% at 3-points per game, to which must be added 5.3 rebounds, and 4.4 assists this season.
A complete squad at last?
His return would therefore be very good news for the Heat where the infirmary is emptying at the best time. Kevin Love thus made his “comeback” this week against the Knicks, offering one more option for Erik Spoelstra. The only downside is the state of health of Terry Rozier, whose knee is worrying after a shock against the Sixers.
“It’s a shock to the knee”, simply noted the Heat coach “We'll just have to see how he feels when we get to Houston. He told us he felt good. We're not going to take his word for it until we get to Houston, and we'll see you tomorrow morning. »
Tie breaker : when two teams have the same record at the end of the season, home advantage is determined by a series of successive criteria. The first is that of the results of the regular season meetings between the two clubs.
