Tyler Herro (37 points), the story of the boy who executed the Boston Celtics: "He has the balls of an elephant"

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"I always told him he had elephant balls."

John Calipari

does not give praise.

The

coach

for the past eleven years has shaped some of the

: John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Anthony Davis, Karl-Anthony Towns, Devin Booker, Jamal Murray, Bam Adebayo, Tyler Herro ...

Four of them are decisive now in the Conference finals, and one has just ripped them in half.

Tyler Herro

(Milwaukee, 2000) scored 37 points, his career high after a year in the league, in Game 4 of the West final against the Boston Celtics to

that leaves him to one step from going back to the Finals and him, 48 minutes away from being the first boy born in the 2000s to fight for the ring.

Herro, a

undervalued because of that unconscious fear that one always has of white guards, prejudiced by his physique.

But Herro, with the "balls of an elephant", arrived at the perfect franchise at the perfect moment, with the

to get the necessary blanks before knocking the door down.

"I used to mess with him during training to try to lower his morale, and he

, give me more,'" Calipari explained in January in the

.

"I was in the ward every night, obsessed."

Calipari, an expert in being an excellent marketing man with his players as well as his experienced coach, has been 'warning' with Herro since his arrival in Miami.

"I told him early on that it was an excellent franchise for him.

that is ideally suited to who he is as a player."

Herro spent only one year at the University of Kentucky, where he started all 37 games and scored 14 points on average.

His team lost in

, and their potential was overshadowed by

.

Zion Williams and RJ Barrett were the stars of Duke, finishing 1st and 3rd in the draft.

Ja Morant, Rookie of the Year in the NBA, was one of the surprises of the tournament with little Murray State, and guard / forwards like DeAndre Hunter and Jarrett Culver did reach the famous Final Four, one with Virginia and the other with Texas Tech. Centers Hayes and Hachimura were chosen before him, and even teammate PJ Washington, Kentucky's leading scorer that year with 15 points, came out one spot earlier.

.

At 13,

, always attentive, always thinking of winning, had Tyler Herro between their eyebrows.

He was capable of creating his own shots and although you might think he lacked physicality for the NBA, his obsessive work ethic ensured some of his potential.

It fit right from the start.

In his fourth game he scored 29 points and in 11 of the

.

And in the Playoffs he has been as regular as his team: he has never dropped below two figures, with the peak of 37 tonight.

It's the

in a playoffs, the

by a rookie in a conference finals, and the second-highest score by a

in the Playoffs since Magic Johnson's 42 in 1980.

Spoelstra beat Stevens

Herro has shown that he is much more than just a shooter.

He accompanied his five triples with baskets of all kinds.

After passing, taking advantage of a teammate's cut or creating your own shot or penetration.

All to overcome a Boston Celtics (109-112) who remain on the ropes and in which

was once again surpassed by

.

The

assumes more talented than Miami, but the most experienced players and coach of the Florida franchise are decanting the final minutes of qualifying.

The game was 'difficult to watch' in the first half.

went into the break with a 0 of 6 in field goals and zero points, in a clear example of what had been seen on the court.

He stirred in the second act, scoring 28 goals that were about to give victory to his team.

The Celtics paid

poor

and the inability to stop pivot Bam Adebayo (20 points and twelve rebounds).

(Dragic, 22 points; Butler, 24; Iguodala, 27 minutes; Adebayo, Herro ...), while Stevens kept the plan of the whole series.

Kemba and Jaylen Brown

were in their usual numbers, surpassing 20 points, but they were hurt by

bad day

who barely reached ten with 1 of 8 on triples.

The losses, 19 for those in green and only eight for Miami, were decisive in the final stretch and tipped the balance of the match and who knows if of the series.

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