How Tyler Herro, Jimmy Butler Fueled Miami Heat’s Comeback Over Brooklyn Nets | HEAT vs NETS RECAP

How Tyler Herro, Jimmy Butler Fueled Miami Heat’s Comeback Over Brooklyn Nets | HEAT vs NETS RECAP

Jimmy Butler was back from Miami but it was Tyler Hero’s clutch scory including six points in overtime versus the Nets that helped the heat Escape Brooklyn with a comeback win it was a tale of two halves Big Shot making when it mattered most as Miami keep paace in the Eastern

Conference standings we’ll break it all down and answer your questions about the win on today’s episode of Locked on heat you are locked on heat your daily Miami Heat podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day all right welcome to locked on heat your

Daily podcast on the Miami Heat I’m West Goldberg editor at allou can heat.com joining me as always it’s longtime NBA reporter David raill however you’re tuning in on YouTube Odyssey are your favorite podcast app thanks so much for making lockdown heat your first listen every day today’s episode is brought to

You by f fuel make every moment more right now new customers get $150 in bonus bets guaranteed when you place a $5 bet visit fanduel.com lockon to get started recording this on a Monday night after the Heat beat the Nets low-scoring game 96 to 95 and that’s with overtime

On the road second night of a back-to-back and boy did it look like it for the first half the he scored 31 points in the first half they missed their first 12 three-pointers in this game and it looked like it was just going to be one of those nights but then

The Heat come back from 16 points down Tyler herro has 29 Points in the game including six of Miami’s eight points in overtime and big bucket after big bucket which I’m sure we’re gonna get to here um down the stretch Jimmy Butler in his first game back since December 30th

Finished tonight with 31 points David what was your takeaway from this one Tyler here relying on him and and coming up big when it mattered most like I think he had fallen slightly out of favor we talked about this in our last recap just last night against the

Charlotte Hornets I know he struggled uh and there were some questions about his tough shot you know the fact that he took a tough shot against Oklahoma City and some members of the fan base at least via social media and take that for what it’s worth kind of turning on his

Shot selection things that we’ve pointed out in the past as far as where his biggest weaknesses are but tonight you saw when those weaknesses turn into great strengths because he was Miami’s only real source of offense from the floor like Jimmy Butler got his points almost completely from the free throw

Line my a few shots that he hit here and there for the most part when it mattered especially late in that during that run when they went on a 17 to3 run to take a lead for the first time in the third quarter later on in the game uh in in

The to close out the fourth quarter and certainly in overtime it was all Tyler herro his willingness to take big shots the one-legged floaters in the lane the big three-point shots two of which he hit again in overtime he was phenomenal tonight and I think I hope that Pete

Fans recognize the the positives of Tyler’s offense like I know you can be frustrating at times especially when he doesn’t get to the free throw line as much but tonight when he’s those shots are falling he’s as Dynamic a player as there is in the NBA well you mentioned

The third quarter Tyler had 12 points in the third quarter to basically fuel that Miami run and then with a minute left in the fourth quarter at the end of regulation of this one hits two of those big floaters that you had talked about he hits one with 50 seconds left to put

The heat back up Brooklyn comes back they retake the lead and what does Tyler hero do like all right I’ll just do it again and he does it again he did get called for two fouls in that final minute one of them was his fault the

Other one wasn’t the the very the second one where Jimmy Butler uh went for the steel on the inbound pass to M Bridges I thought he gambled I mean he did Gamble and you know the other version of that is that he gets it he probably missed

The ball by half a foot the other version of that is he gets it steel scores on the other end puts the game away we never have to deal with overtime on the road on the second half of back toback so I’m not going to blame Jimmy Butler too much for that gamble

Considering everything stake there and the fact that they were on the second night of a back-to-back and he was just trying to end this game early but tah hero was the one that slid back and for help defense and yeah he got called for the foul but at least he tried so like

When you say Heat fans like I I do feel like sometimes the Nuance in Tyler Hero’s game is lost and I know that we don’t look at Tyler hero as a Nuance kind of player when we talk about we’re not really talking about a nuanced player the way that we’re talking about

Like somebody like Jimmy or bam even but I have said this all the time about tah Hero at the end of the day give me the guy that’s going to do something and it doesn’t necessarily have to be the shot that goes in even at the end of that

Oklahoma City game at least he took the shot he took the shot and sometimes in the NBA it just comes down to that um you know guys take shots they’re not always good shots but at least you’re taking them Wayne Wade took a bunch of tough shots that he probably shouldn’t

Have taken but he made them and he didn’t make them all the time and T hero makes a lot of them and sometimes he doesn’t but tonight he did make them right he got those one-f footer floaters in the lane he made those big threes down the stretch you mentioned the fact

That nobody was doing much of anything from the field even in overtime Ty the heat scored eight points in overtime Tyler hero scored six of them from the field the only other two were Jimmy Butler free throws so the only guy who made a shot that wasn’t a free throw in

Overtime was Tyler herro you got you need to have somebody that does stuff I always say this and Tyler herro does stuff he makes things happen and he does stuff and you got to live with the results think of this 33 made field goals in the night in overtime that’s

Pathetic and 11 of them came from Tyler herro like 11 made free throws he was 11 to 22 from the floor you get eight from Jimmy five from bam and that’s pretty much it you get a couple shots here and there from other guys but it was really just a bleak night offensively

Especially in the first half second half it was a completely different story I mean the 31 points in the first half was really ugly they scored 16 points and they kind of say oh one of the lowest scoring quarters in the Miami Heat season and then they go and go you know

What hold my beer I’m gonna score one less than that they just go 15 points in a second quarter really and then what happened they outscored themselves in the third quarter this was the weirdest game David when was the last time you you and I watch a lot of NBA basketball

Not just the Miami Heat you’re recording the NBA show tonight for the national show I’ve been watching basketball since 1 pm tonight I don’t even know going on how do you even how you even keeping this game straight you’re gonna start talking about like Kyrie

Irving but um when was the last time we saw an overtime game in the NBA where neither team broke 100 points was it the 90s five years five years you already found that stat yeah yes five years ago the last time it happened was five years

Ago that both teams go into overtime and neither score 100 points was five we haven’t seen that five years ago so it’s been a it’s been a while some really bad offense I thought that Tyler herro foul one of the odds that Eric spolon we’ll find this out by the time people are

Even hearing this saying Pat Riley that’s that’s a game Pat riy would have loved that’s a game Pat would have loved like what are the odds he’s going to walk into the press conference right now with a big smile as beaming grin yep in the mud we love these kinds of games you

Knew you were fans got what they paid for price of admission you know you were G to get some you know some some fatigue there on the second night of a back toback everything else that game suck it was really ugly to watch and look the shots they were they were just falling

Short I mean it was clearly fatigue in the first half like You’ see the shots were open you had Kyle Tyler everybody bam in particular like they was taking a lot of shots that we’ve seen them make regularly this season and they were just falling short they just hitting front

Rim all the time about that last 38% Brooklyn shot 34% so they were like we could do you one worse uh sorry go ahead talk about those through overtime yeah yeah through overtime uh I think a lot of people are kind of thinking about that last defensive possession where

Tyler did cause a foul on Mel Bridges but at the same time uh you know I think and I question this via social media like why he was in there in the first place right are we looking too much into it and why he would High Smith who

Hadn’t played for most of the second half why he wasn’t out there for that last defensive possession with four and a half seconds left it was interesting because then later on SPO did go offense on that final possession he put Duncan Robinson in took Kaleb out Tyler hero

Stayed in the game Kyle lry came in the game for Josh Richardson so he was willing to kind of go defense offense but he just didn’t do the defense part he didn’t do the first part of that I don’t know I don’t know if it was an oversight because tahiro was also

Guarding the inbounder right in front of the heat bench so if it was an oversight then like the coaches would have saw hero in the game and oh crap like take him out take him out have heith guard the inbounder or whoever um I don’t I

Don’t know and I I I we’re recording this right after the buzzer of overtime so we haven’t listened to any of the postgame conferences um I’m hoping one of the beat reporters on the road Ira Wiman Anthony Chang somebody like that go ahead and ask us bolster I know Ira

Actually tweeted the same question so I do wonder if he he’s gonna ask but maybe we’ll find out I I wonder if it’s a little bit like first of all Tyler hero is on the near the top of the roster in terms of steals per game so I don’t know

If he said well this guy is one of our best uh like guys just just grabbing the basketball let’s put him in and then maybe if we get that steal then we have somebody in the game who can at least make a shot like a pull-up jumper off

The dribble or something I maybe I I I I don’t know and and maybe he just didn’t like the night that Haywood he Smith was having it wasn’t the best night for Haywood he was a minus 16 in this game in 12 minutes um so it wasn’t like it

Was an awesome heith game perhaps if it was a great Haywood heith game then he puts him into that game but maybe just he he didn’t have confidence in him at that point yeah it’s it’s an interesting point and I think a lot of people were a

Little flumix by it as it was playing out because again you’re down no yeah you were down two at that point you need a defensive possession you’ve got four and a half seconds left on the clock and then they wind up inbounding the ball and Tyler commits a foul and’s M bres

Six both free throws ties the game Jimmy Butler takes an off balance long two not a three-pointer this time a lot of people were concerned about Jimmy Butler taking it along their off balance three to end the game right this case it wasn’t an off balance three it was just

Off balance 18-footer instead uh that actually looked good I think the the shot itself looked good I thought he could have if he had hit that shot he he took a little while kind of getting into it I thought he was a little slow kind of getting into the shot but again at

The end when we’re we’re splitting hars with whatever it was eight seconds left in in in the game at that point but like I said before I know tyah hero committed the foul in that last play that wasn’t his fault right Jimmy Butler went for the steel he gambled left nobody open

And Ty hero just had the the the awareness to slide over and try to provide some sort interference interference and he fouled him and look if he fouls him instead of giving Mel Bridges a wide open layup to tie the game and Mel Bridges splits the free

Throws then he looks like a hero right and so um I I didn’t have a problem with him him on that possession even though I understand the question about leaving him in there in the first place but this is a Heat win which means we get to hand

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Means it’s time for the tastiest segment of lock down heat it is time to hand out some credit cookies who are getting who’s getting cookies for tonight first all these cookies these they were stayed in the oven a little too long they’re a little burnt they’re a little bitter I

Mean it’s just really disgusting in tasting cookies but you know what a win’s a win you get to celebrate you cry as you eat these cookies but you enjoy them cookies left over from last night’s win these are the back toback cookies right we didn’t have time that’s right

Yeah you try to put them in the oven to reheat you wind up burning them to a cinder and you wind up sitting there crying in your kitchen eating ashes but anyway it’s uh I’m gonna start off with Tyler hero again great game from him I think he deserves five credit cookies

Jimmy Butler yes five credit cookies for Jimmy Butler I’m only giving them three players because everybody else was really really really off uh four for Jimmy Butler at his first game back and I think again because he was really impactful in getting to the line and

Hitting a lot of free throws and mostly decent in terms of his scoring defensively he wasn’t bad at all I think he was still he looked he looked really good I I he expected there to be any kind of rust or anything like that in his return he didn’t really show it and

Aside from that the last cookie I’m going to give to Bam a bio who I think had to carry a lot of the brunt of the offense in the first half and he struggled under as a result but he did wind up finishing the night with 20

Rebounds so he gets the last cookie 54 and one tonight in the cookie distribution I’m good with it I I personally had four to Tyler four to Jimmy and two to Bam but I’m okay with I’m okay I’m okay with your math too that’s it’s sort of the same thing shout

Out to Josh Richardson who made a couple of big buckets in that fourth quarter but uh not enough probably for for a cookie look uh let’s talk about Jimmy Butler he hasn’t played since December 30th he’s missed 11 of Miami’s last 12 games with these leg and foot and toe

Injuries night of a back toback Miami played it safe with him against Charlotte on Sunday night they said okay we’re going to need this guy for the second night of back toback in Brooklyn they go ahead and activate him in this game and he steps up 31 points it’s his

Fifth highest scoring game of the season and he does it after in his first game of 2024 because he’s been injured this entire time with a foot injury I thought he was awesome I love that he got to the the foul line a ton um he got called for

A ridiculous flopping call what uh at the end of the third quarter it was like in it was like four minute Mark third quarter yeah it was like the four-minute Mark of the third quarter the heat were down at that point 69 to 68 um and Jimmy

Butler went and scored eight points in the final four minutes of that third quarter because that so that’s all he needed he just needed one little reason to go from an okay game to a really good game and the heat needed literally every single one of those points that he had

Down the stretch so a and that was a ridiculous flopping call wasn’t it I I don’t know I I kind of was thinking shades of Michael Jordan and I took that personally because oh yeah like he seems ignited from that point forward like he

Got to the line I think he took like six or eight more free throw attempts and he hit all of them after that one call but it didn’t make any sense again it was a a misfield goal on one end and then they kind of Hit the the the quick Outlet

Pass to Jimmy who was way down Court he’s kind of leaning towards the basket on a layup attempt which he hits and then they wave it off I I don’t know where the Flop came there was no contact he wasn’t trying to sell anything not

That he usually does I I I don’t even know what they were calling so they showed it later in the broadcast there was another play where I maybe it was a rebound or something and he’s kind of running away from the basket because he didn’t he ended up not having a chance

At the rebound but he sort of crashed but whatever and then he kind of gets shoved in the back and he just sort of stumbles but never looks at the ref he just literally just stumbles and then keeps running back onto the other side of the Court like where he was supposed

To go so he didn’t disrupt his flow of play there’s no and that’s the point right the flopping is hey we don’t want this to be a thing where you’re causing a scene and you’re disrup and you’re making a show of it like we don’t want

Basketball to be played like that and I understand the flopping rules but first of all in general the officials in the NBA don’t seem very consistent in calling it some like some weeks are like we’re we have no we have no patience for flopping and then some weeks are like oh

Flopping is fine and but and in this game look Jimmy Butler does not flop say what you want about Jimmy Butler as a player as a character as a personality whatever you want love him hate him I don’t care you don’t like even Minnesota Timberwolves fans who can’t stand him

Would say the guy never flops he doesn’t he doesn’t flop and he doesn’t do that stuff he gets to the free throw line a lot but he earns those free throws and so I love that he after that flop he kind of gets the guys with the pump fake

And stuff he’s like all right I’ll go old school I’m gonna I’m gonna get to the free throw line anyway I’m not going to be afraid of you calling another dumb flopping call you know me David I don’t complain about refs very much and I wouldn’t have made this a whole referee

Thing if the heat had lost but the fact that the Heat won I’m a little bit more willing to talk about it it was a ridiculous flopping call and I don’t really know again zooming out I’m not sure what the officials are looking at in terms of flopping in general in the

NBA this season because I feel like it’s been really inconsistent and kind of weird I mean when it comes to a flop yeah I I I think it’s just so subjective and again the context the game matters you know it yeah the context does matter

And you know it when you see it and you I think reputation matters like Jimmy’s just not one of those guys all right anyway um should we talk about bam a career a one fewer rebound than his career-high he had 20 rebounds in this game 11 points um he was a minus three

In this game which was kind of weird I think that was just because the the Nets went on a big run when he was in the game in the first half but I thought he was really awesome particularly in the second half especially defensively I thought if Nick Claxton thinks he’s an

Awesome defensive Center and he is he’s a he’s a very he’s a very good defensive Center but he’s not Elite the way that bam is and I think if you’re Claxton like your best case scenario is somebody like bam atab bio right they’re both really kind of lean switchy finesse kind

Of bigs and and but just like outclassed him in this one I I wouldn’t go so far I mean the rebounding like his sense of timing and the ability to muscle past Claxton or smaller Defenders clearly when it was you know Dorian Smith or somebody else that was kind of

Ostensively playing the center he was able to kind of again power his way to those 20 rebounds the reason why I think he struggled so much in the in the first half is again a lot of those shots that the heat were taking were falling short so there was no concern regarding the

Perimeter shooting you could leave those guys open and so you had perimeter Defenders whether it was Royce O’Neal or or particularly Dennis Smith Jr collapsing bringing a double attacking bam getting physical with often times that the broadcast showed uh it was a smaller player just kind of throwing an

Elbow at BAM making things more difficult for him as he was trying to catch as they were jumping the ball into him in the low post letting him go to work and they were just able to send a double and between a smaller Defender who poked the ball free if you bring it

Down low or a taller defender in claxon who Could SWAT the away bam didn’t really have of an easy opportunity to get his scoring so he really did struggle I know a lot of crit but defensively I thought he was very good yes and that was sort of more of my

Point where like Claxton I thought Claxton was okay defensively but got called for that bad offensive basket interference at the end of the game yes um there’s a goalen that either was that was or wasn’t called at the end of the game I think got called for one and

Didn’t get called for another uh he got called for a couple different things so yeah um you know I thought bam was just a little bit more consistent in crunch time when it really mattered but uh yeah he deserves the one credit cookie Tyler with five love it Jimmy with four and

You’re right it’s those three those are the guys they won the game for the Heat and I guess when you only score 96 points you only really need three guys to step up uh speaking of did the heat figure something out defensively we’ll tell you what changed

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Us comment under YouTube leave us a festar rating and review on your podcast app all of it really does help Brian writes in the Heat have held three straight opponents to under 100 points has something changed in their defense or have they just happen to run into

Three really bad offenses David what do you think I think it’s a little bit of both I I think mostly it’s the inferior opponent quality like I mean you’re going up against an Orlando team that defends very well and they can put up some points but they’re not a very good

Three-point shooting team uh you’ve got Charlotte that was missing several players due to injury and La ball was struggling offensively that night and then you got tonight where again the Brooklyn Nets just haven’t been very good all season long going through a myriad of number of issues there and uh

I I think that’s mostly it but I think it’s the health of players coming back you know Heim is kind of figuring out his footing defensively although he wasn’t in the lineup today obviously Caleb Martin back in the lineup bam playing at an all-nba level hey with

Heith back from injury I think that probably contributes maybe 10% if I had to ascribe a particular number to it but I think most of it is just reflective of really bad opponents and that’s fine you take them hey yeah you do what you got

To do right the magic uh if they have a weakness it’s offense they were missing fron Vagner for that game and continue to be without him so yeah I get that one um Charlotte stinks we covered that already and and Brooklyn is they’re not a good team man they’re 16 and 23 now

That offense is really bad that defense is not very good either for them that was supposed to their blow it up Sean Mar I mean if you’re Brooklyn we can go off topic here but I think it’s at least interesting what are you doing right Nick claxton’s going to be a free agent

Are you paying him you know I I don’t know I think it’s a fair question are you paying him right is he part of your future Mel Bridges he’s 27 years old and I know that he’s sort of the Crown Jewel of the Kevin Durant deal but you already

Got all the draft picks coming over from Phoenix cam Johnson’s on a nice team-friendly deal but is M what’s Mel Bridges the third best player on a championship caliber team maybe I think that’s that’s probably what he is he’s miscast in Brooklyn like he’s expected

To take on too much of a role there he’s 27 years old so if you’re going to rebuild you know I mean this is his prime would you not I kind of think he’s sort of a put it this way it wouldn’t shock me if they traded him between now

And the start of next season you know because just because of the timing he’s a great player heck I love him in Miami right but uh I like you said he’s a little bit miscast in Brooklyn so I don’t know what the Nets are doing man

But I think they’re they’re a team that could maybe they’ve been a little quiet I know there’s dorany Smith rumors and they’re like we want two first round picks it’s like all right good luck but um that’s you know that’s how negotiation is you know that’s that’s

The that’s the outward signaling but I would I think everybody should be touchable right nobody should be Untouchable in Brooklyn at this point right no I agree I and I I know I kind of texted you half jokingly about it but uh after the game he had tonight I don’t

See why Dennis Smith Jr isn’t an option for Miami or not on a lot of more more teams radar like I mean the guy is a just I know he’s a kind of struggl Ling offensive player but he is a hustle guy for sure defensively he made his like

18th three-pointer of the Season tonight that’s that’s the main reason why he doesn’t make sense for Miami but I like him I like him he’s a great story too yeah if you’re a defensive player I mean if you need a possession again and you’re gonna bring him out there I mean

Look you’re you’re trotting Josh out there 13th 13th three-pointer of the Season you know that Josh can’t score he’s certainly much more prolific than Dennis Smith Jr but in terms of point of attack defense I don’t think it’s even like I mean he’s a far better Defender than

Josh had a hard time with Mel Bridges down the stretch every time he shot yeah couldn’t stay in front of him um and even when he did Mel Bridges went went over him just shot right over him so look I like Dennis Smith Jr fine he’d be

A nice depth piece for anybody um in terms of the Miami’s defense you’re absolutely right they face Orlando Charlotte Brooklyn they all those teams have their issues but um I do think uh the heat are better than sort of where they had been for that there

Was like a a week and a half stretch where they basically had had like a bottom 10 defense in the league they’re better than that we know that and you get Jimmy back and he’s healthy obviously he looks good um and then Caleb Martin who we just talked about

After that Hornets game had his best defensive game in the season against Charlotte y so if he’s kind of backed her form there and it wasn’t the best Haywood High Smith night tonight but it kind of speaks to something where you don’t necessarily need him to have a

Good night and you could still hold an NBA team to under 100 points in overtime I think all of that stuff does factor in so I don’t think that they’re as bad as that they were during that rough stretch that they did have I don’t think that

They’re they’re back now by the way into the top 10 in defensive rating they were back they were back there after the Charlotte game they’ll certainly stay there after this one um but I I don’t know that I against like top competition we saw against the Thunder and and other

Teams throughout the season I still have my questions point of attack defense to your point somebody like Dennis Smith Jr or somebody else at the trade deadline does make a lot of sense for this team um so I don’t think they’re quite that good but I think they’re probably in the

Top 14 15 which is fine for now especially if you think about making some changes ahead of the trade deadline another note here that I had from this one David the Heat Going essentially other than when they kind of went offense uh possessions here and there they went with their closing lineup Josh

Richardson Tyler herro Jimmy Butler Caleb Martin and bab bio and the notable thing there is that no Kyle Lowry no Kyle Lowry basically at the end of the game except for an inbound here and there uh do you make anything of that I mean I think we’ve seen spro and

Probably uh to a lot of fans chrin I think he’s been going with Josh in that role pretty frequently I think so I think he’s been his closer in terms of I don’t know what he’s seeing out there and I know he has faith in him and I

Know there’s this kind of loyalty to being one of his rookies that he helped develop and and you know the fact that he I was traded for Jimmy Butler I think that kind of I don’t know what it is I really don’t I tell you he’s a threat

He’s a threat to shoot he’ll at least shoot the ball and Kyle lry doesn’t and at the end of these games you need five guys that the defense has to pay pay attention to and when Kyle L’s out there the defense doesn’t pay attention to him

They don’t they play off of him on three-point line they go under every single screen they they he’s not a threat to get to the rim he doesn’t get to the free throw line Josh Richardson is as good defensively if as as Kyle Lowry and

That’s I mean he is it’s not saying much but those are sort of the options and I think it’s the reason why the heat are kind of aggressively in the trade market for a guard that’s why they’re out there they’re looking for an upgrade over Kyle

A and Josh rson if they could put somebody in that spot to close games and who knows what Miami is going to do with their starting lineup but to close a game if they could have an upgrade at that Josh Richardson Kyle Lowry spot yeah that would go a long way I think

For this team and I think that’s probably why they’re looking for that that’s fair I mean I think it’s a valid point I I still don’t I keep having discussions there a lot of people ask me oh what that he GNA do what are he GNA

Do and I have no idea I I said I’m kind of my personal T feeling is that they won’t make a move because I think they’re still waiting as they have for the last few years to get everybody back to health and see what they can finally string together if everybody’s available

But at the same time it wouldn’t surprise me if they made a major move and I don’t know how big a big move is I don’t think there’s a whale out there that you can possibly pry up on even if you make a swing for like a dejonte MERS

I think I would certainly qualify that as a big move Miami so I I just don’t know if that’s real second biggest star on the market out outside of Pascal seak right I would say de M kind of the other name that we know that’s out there who

Knows what actually you know happens but exactly to your point Miami is exploring it doesn’t mean they’re going to do anything you know the value has to make sense the trade has to work out for both teams not just for the Miami Heat but for the other team that’s involved too

So they’re out there they’re looking for guard help we know this whether or something happens there you know we’ll see the trade deadlines February 8th we’ll have plenty of more content for you between now and the Trad line trade deadline we’re going to have more info

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