{"id":118395,"date":"2025-01-16T14:09:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=118395"},"modified":"2025-01-16T14:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:09:54","slug":"tyler-herro-responds-to-pat-rileys-fragile-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/01\/16\/tyler-herro-responds-to-pat-rileys-fragile-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Herro Responds to Pat Riley\u2019s \u2018Fragile\u2019 Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

In May of last year, Heat president Pat Riley <\/a>confronted<\/a>\u00a0Jimmy Butler<\/a> in the only way that he knew how. It hasn’t worked yet. Riley, however, was equally critical of Tyler Herro<\/a>, referring to him as “fragile.” Herro, who is in the middle of a career season, responded to Riley’s “fragile” comments during an interview.<\/p>\n

Tyler Herro Responds to Pat Riley\u2019s \u2018Fragile\u2019 Comments<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Herro Is A Perfectionist<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Herro recently talked about how Riley’s remarks inspired him last summer before the 2024\u201325 season in an interview with Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a perfectionist in my own way,\u201d Herro said<\/u><\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t need anyone to tell me I\u2019m fragile or I haven\u2019t played as many games. I\u2019m aware of what\u2019s going on. I know I missed the last two seasons, with the hand injury and half the season last year. I\u2019ve seen the comments coach Riley said. In my own world, I was going to try to play more games on my own either way. I took his words, obviously, into consideration and used it as motivation as I always do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Herro In All-Star Form<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Herro answered, and in strong fashion. He hasn’t missed a single game this season, which has coincided with also being the most productive<\/a> in his career. In 35.4 minutes per game, the soon-to-be 25-year-old guard is averaging 24.3 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 5.0 assists.<\/p>\n

His shooting percentages of 47.4 percent from the field, 40.8 percent from three-point range, and 86.4 percent from the free-throw line are sufficient for a 58.7 effective field goal percentage (highest of his career by 5.6 percent) and a 62.5 true-shooting percentage (best by 6.7;percent).<\/p>\n

Herro has cut long two-pointers out of his diet entirely. He switched out some of those long twos into threes, averaging 9.8 a game, or 55.7 percent of his total shot diet. He has also reached the rim and free-throw line at career-high rates by using his increased strength and speed.<\/p>\n

The “Important” Player<\/h3>\n

Although he isn’t a flawless player, development isn’t necessarily linear. The 6-foot-5 guard has utilized his development to emerge as one of the Heat’s most important players.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not an overnight thing,\u201d Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra told Chiang about Herro\u2019s growth<\/u><\/a>. \u201cI think people only recognize if the scoring average goes up. But his skill set has been really developing for the last three years. He was a heck of an offensive player when he was Sixth Man of the Year [for the 2021-22 season]. Now he\u2019s added some strength, he\u2019s defending better, his playmaking has gotten better, off-the-catch movement has gotten better. We know what he\u2019s been able to do with the ball in his hands \u2014 that has been two or three years now. But it\u2019s really putting a lot of things together to help your team.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Last Word<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Herro’s maturity and will to succeed are evident in his answer to Riley’s remark that he was “fragile.” Herro accepted the criticism instead of taking offense, using it as inspiration to raise his level of play. Herro’s growth mentality shows that he is prepared to become a vital member of the Miami Heat. His response couldn’t be better, but he will have to keep improving while remaining glued to the scouting reports of other teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In May of last year, Heat president Pat Riley confronted\u00a0Jimmy Butler in the only way that he knew how. It hasn’t worked yet. Riley, however, was equally critical of Tyler Herro, referring to him as “fragile.” Herro, who is in the middle of a career season, responded to Riley’s “fragile” comments during an interview. Tyler […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4685,"featured_media":118454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1608,16],"tags":[142,419,1896],"class_list":["post-118395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-basketball","category-heat","tag-jimmy-butler","tag-pat-riley","tag-tyler-herro"],"modified_by":"Kenny Kluska","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118455,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118395\/revisions\/118455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}