Before the break this season, Herro …

Before the break this season, Herro averaged 11.8 drives to the basket and 3.1 free-throw attempts per game. In Herro’s first five games following the break, he has averaged a team-high 13.4 drives to the basket and that has helped him draw 5.4 free throws per game. “He has really been assertive on his drives,” Spoelstra said. “So there’s been a lot more force to his attacks getting to the basket. That quite naturally will lead to more contact and he has a sturdier frame now from all the weight work that he has been putting in and any of those kind of extra opportunities at the free-throw line are really important for us. It really moves the needle for us when Jimmy and Bam [Adebayo], and now you add Tyler to that mix, are getting to the free-throw line. It helps us control games.”