With the Miami Heat ’s turbulent 2024-25 campaign having officially come to a close, it’s time to look back and see which players met, surpassed or fell short of their respective expectations entering this season.

For the Heat as a whole, this year went anything but according to plan, as they were quickly bounced from the first round of the playoffs after a 37-45 regular season finish. Tyler Herro , however, served as one of the sole bright spots for this year’s Miami squad - and all signs point towards him being far from finished in his development.

Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro reacts in a game against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Rocket Arena.

The 2024-25 campaign was filled with career-best marks for the up-and-coming 25-year-old guard. Herro recorded 23.9 points, 5.5 assists and 0.9 steals per game this year while shooting 47.2% from the field - all of which set new career highs.

He also appeared in 77 games while averaging 35.4 minutes per contest in that span, marking a far cry from his injury-riddled 2023-24 slate that saw him appear in only 42 games total.

Herro’s breakthrough did not go unnoticed, as he notched the first All-Star game nod of his still-young NBA career. His individual success may not have been enough to power Miami in the playoffs, but it has at least provided a glimmering spark of hope in what looked to be an otherwise bleak future down in South Florida.

That being said, Herro struggled mightily in the Heat's Eastern Conference quarterfinals series against the Cleveland Cavaliers last month. Miami was swept with ease, as Herro scored only four points on a 1-of-10 field goal clip in a brutal 138-83 game four loss.

With the 2025-26 season set to be Miami’s first full campaign without Jimmy Butler in six years, all signs point towards the franchise building around Herro and big man Bam Adebayo down the road. The only question that remains now is just how high Herro's ceiling may be - and if it will be enough to keep Miami in the postseason picture in the coming years.