What is your take on <font color="Red">Wade</font>'s Olympic Performance? He STRUGGLED big time on the <font color="Red">Offensive</font> end. He really needs to work on his shooting. The international game limited his ability to drive to the basket (his strength) and players dared him to shoot the jumper, which he could not drain. True, he did not take that many shots and his job was mainly to distribute the ball to the other scorers on the team, but he is very hesitant to take an outside shot. His <font color="Red">Defense</font> was pretty good and he did a great job of anticipating the pass and getting steals. Wade is still very young and has worlds of potential, but he must develop his outside shooting. The Heat must work on building his confidence so he does not hesitate when he has open shots. I believe he is capable of draining most of those shots, but he rather drive to the hoop. Once he builds confidence on his outside shot, the sky is the limit for Wade. <font color="Red">The Complete Player </font> = Solid Defender + Amazing Leaping Ability + Outside Shooting + Great Passing + Team Player + Clutch. Lets give him a couple of years. Remember even <font color="Blue">Michael Jordan</font>'s jump shot was a bit suspect when he came into the league.(Yes, even after hitting that shot for North Carolina in '82)
Yeah his shot was way off and at times the other teams weren't even defending him so he was forced to take the shot or make a bad pass and turn it over. In the last two games he was taking more bad shots but so was the rest of the team so...hopefully he will be joining Udonis Haslem this offseason in perfecting his shot
i believe wade showed alot of pormise in the olympics. he porved to me that his 2003- 2004 game was not just a fluke. this guy can flat out ball. I only say he workds on taking the mid range consisitently and he'll be ok. i think the most thuing this guy has to do to make his shot better is just let it go. and trust his teamates to get rebounds if he misses. But he may work out his arms everyday which could mess his shot up. does anyone know his workout regime.
The way Dwayne Wade was being portrayed as a bad shooter was blown way out of proportion. Let's be serious for second, Dwayne Wade doesn?t have the best perimeter shot however but he usually shots much better then the way he did overseas. With all the criticism he and the rest of the Olympic Team was getting about not having any perimeter shoots on the team, he didn't have too much self-esteem within himself. If you noticed when he shot the ball, he showed NO confidence what?s so ever. Opposing teams dared him to take a 3-Point shot, but he was very hesitant and they just forced him to step closer but he still ended up with a miss. The pressure really got to him. Wade is still young and playing overseas was a while new experience for him. This Olympic atmosphere is completing different from a collegiate and NBA atmosphere. But his overall performance in Athens showed that he has a very promising career in the NBA. But nonetheless, he really needs to work on his perimeter game. I believe his shot will be much better when the NBA season beings, being that he will feel more comfortable playing in NBA and of course Shaq is on the team. Also, his defense was really great. When he came off the bench he automatically provided the US with a spark. And even though his offense game wasn?t completely there, his willingness to play defense and to win helped the US big time.
The thing that would scare me most if I was a heat fan, would be the way he handled the zone. NBA teams dont use the zone much but with Shaq now on the heat, they will see the zone look more then most other teams as a way to prevent or control Shaq, especially in the East with the smaller bigs. Anyway Wade didnt handle the zone looks well at all, which is surprising for someone would played against it somewhat in college. But anyway, he over penetrated against the zone it seem like everytime and when he wasnt over penetrating against it, he was trying to force bad passes thru the zone. Some of it comes from the lack of confidence in his jumper, so he tried to do to much going toward the basket. But still that wasnt a good sign with Wade expected to be the Heat's primary ball handler.
Wade was a great defender for the US team. His offense wasnt so good but he still contributed well to the team and im sure he learned a lot from Larry Brown and the other players as well.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Henacy:</div><div class="quote_post">The thing that would scare me most if I was a heat fan, would be the way he handled the zone. NBA teams dont use the zone much but with Shaq now on the heat, they will see the zone look more then most other teams as a way to prevent or control Shaq, especially in the East with the smaller bigs. Anyway Wade didnt handle the zone looks well at all, which is surprising for someone would played against it somewhat in college. But anyway, he over penetrated against the zone it seem like everytime and when he wasnt over penetrating against it, he was trying to force bad passes thru the zone. Some of it comes from the lack of confidence in his jumper, so he tried to do to much going toward the basket. But still that wasnt a good sign with Wade expected to be the Heat's primary ball handler.</div> they wont see the zone, the heat have eddie jones and rasual butler to make the outside shots, them both are way better shooters then anyone on the usa team
I think Wade partly did his job on the Olympics. HE could've done done better,but it wasn't his fault they lost. Wade was one on the only players on that Olympic team to actually relize that they weren't the main guy. He did some nice passes and set up very nice plays. His shooting kind of surprised me though as it was way off. He was thought the USAs best perimeter defender, even though a few shooting fouls were called against him. Noone else could do anything about it ,but AI did defende it a few times too. Wade defense has really improved under Larry Brown. He is a great player and is no where near his prime yet. Him LeBron, and Carmelo will bring future medals to the USA. My Report Card for Dwyane Wade: B-
If u give Wade a B- then what ar eu gonna give like Bron and Melo etc... I say an B+ to an A-... he did most of the things right... that's why he got so much playing time. Defensively he was a beast, so now we know what he can do better which he couldn't do last year. Shooting needs improvement and decision making, that's all I really see though. And not to get so hesitant and lose confidence... other than that he's spectacular.
Yeah like mr. wade said, there is a reason why he got so many minutes. The reason being that Larry Brown thought that what DW was doing on the court far outweighed the errors he made, so he earned himself playing time, more than the two rookies who placed higher than him in the rookie of the year award. Simply put, when LB wanted to put his best defensive roster on the court, he was talking about putting Wade in.
