Dwyane Wade for a very long time was the number one guy for the Miami Heat. From 2003 until 2010 it was all Wade and no one else. Even on the 2006 Championship team that featured Shaquille O’Neal, Wade was still option one.
Ever since 2010 though and Wade’s plethora of injuries, the Miami Heat star took a step back. Sometimes all the way to the third option on offense. LeBron James and Chris Bosh came to town and took away some of Wade’s touches, due to both injury and the way the offense was more of a facilitation offense. Pass the ball around, find the open man and alot of transition offense as well.
Now LeBron is gone and all that is left is Bosh and Wade. But Wade seems to be struggling to find his way in a new offense without LeBron and new versatile pieces in Luol Deng and Josh McRoberts.
Wade told Ira Winderman of the Sun-Sentinel the following.
“I’m still finding my way with this team and this offense,” he said, as the Heat prepare to play in their exhibition finale against the Houston Rockets. “So I’m still trying to see where I fit in. I know I can get a shot any time I want, but it’s about the quality of it more so than anything. I’m just playing the game and just seeing.”
“This early offense that we started in camp is more so to get our guys to better ball movement,” he said. “So now Coach is starting to get to the point where it’s time now to put in a package for C.B. [Bosh] and myself, and it will kind of be what we do for the next week, week and a half.”
Well, at this point of Wade’s career if he struggles, I would be surprised. Wade is undoubtably the face of the Heat now and if he struggles, so will the team. Wade can’t rely on LeBron to carry the team and Bosh can’t do it all on his own. Miami will be very interesting this year, and very disappointing if Wade can’t get it all season now.
