Through Kentucky’s first nine games, freshman Tyler Herro made only 25 percent of his three-point shots (11 of 44) and a pedestrian 41.8 percent of all his shots (38 of 91).
Cover your eyes obsessive UK fans. Associate coach Kenny Payne all but dismissed Herro’s misses with a shrug and a so-what?
“We want basketball players,” Payne said Thursday. “If you want to be a shooter, and just be a shooter, (you) should have probably gone to another school. This is a basketball player’s school.”
There was an irony amidst the fretting about Herro’s shooting. Herro himself recoiled from the label of a shooter.