Tyler Herro Injury Update: His Impending Return and Post-Season Impact

The Miami Heat’s Tyler Herro injury has undoubtedly hurt the team’s success over the last two months as the mesh sniper has missed the Heat’s last sixteen games. His status has been in the air for a couple of weeks now, with indications that he might lace up sooner rather than later.

The Heat lost to a bleeding Golden State Warriors squad Tuesday night without Jimmy Butler. Earlier that same day, Miami upgraded Herro’s return to questionable for Friday’s tilt against the Portland Trailblazers. However, he has since been ruled out for Friday’s game. Nevertheless, Herro will likely be returning within a few games. The Heat are dropping more games than they can afford and inconsistently topping 100 points while doing it. Herro’s shooting abilities are unquestionably needed right now. If the Heat want to battle through the Eastern Conference again as they did last year, getting back to winning by grit, toughness, and shooting, Herro is key.

Tyler Herro Injury Update: His Impending Return and Post-Season Impact

The Heat Keep Losing Games They Shouldn’t Lose

Before Tyler Herro’s injury, his 20.8 points per game were above his career average of 18.1. He was shooting better than ever in his career, an element the Heat have desperately missed. Even with Duncan Robinson having a great shooting year and Jaime Jaquez Jr shooting well in his rookie season, Miami is losing ground in the East. They have dropped six of their last ten games. Two of their four wins were against the painful-to-watch Detroit Pistons.

Miami is not a scoring juggernaut, but Herro’s injury erased 20 points per game. Getting him back would no doubt give them a consistent threat beyond the arc as a pure off-ball shooter.

Unclear Updates

While Herro was ruled out for Friday’s game against the Blazers he could possibly return against the Wizards on Sunday. A healthy Herro playing a lousy team is the perfect warm-up game for him to regain his rhythm. Earlier in the week Shams Charania reported that Herro isn’t expected to be back anytime soon. Herro responded to Shams by saying this isn’t true and he’ll be back soon. While the exact timeline or return isn’t clear this tells us Herro will be back on the court sooner rather than later.