As Associate coach Kenny Payne recalled it on Monday, the way Tyler Herro punctuated a play during one of Kentucky’s August exhibitions in the Bahamas revealed something significant.
Herro drove with his off hand to the basket. “Didn’t touch it with his right hand,” Payne said. “Laid it off the glass, and winked at me. I tried to ignore it. And after the game, the referee said, ‘Kenny Payne, did you see what he did? He winked at you.’
“So he has a confidence, a way about himself that’s pretty good.”
Perhaps another Herro-Payne exchange, this time verbal, explained the meaning of the wink.