Wade needs to go ahead and shut it down for the good of team

[Grumpy Heat Fan]

This is how I picture Wade talking to Spo and the team :

"Yeah, I'm injured. My knee won't heal just by rest, I need surgery and I can't get that until the off-season. So I'm just going to go out there and do the little things and play defense to help my team win."

This is what I think Wade is doing.

The problem with this? Wade is hurting the team. He is SLOW, looks like a grandpa out there. His jumper is way off, he can't drive, and he's turning the ball over and falling down all over himself.

He needs to just admit he's injured and shut it down until the Spurs series and let Mike Miller take his SG minutes.

[MartyCONLONNN]

just cut back his minutes.. give some to miller

[contract]

No, he needs to focus on doing what he can do instead of forcing what he can't. The idea that this team is winning anything without Wade and Bosh is ridiculous.

[Axel]

No, he needs to focus on doing what he can do instead of forcing what he can't. The idea that this team is winning anything without Wade and Bosh is ridiculous.

How is that any more ridiculous than LeBron taking the Cavs to the Finals????

[EscapoTHB]

Wade just needs to be more assertive. Lebron doesn't need to do anything for DWade. Dwade is a big boy, and if he's out there playing he's healthy. So he needs to get the damn ball, and go at the rim everytime down. Put pressure on the refs to call fouls. He needs to make hard cuts without the Ball. Lebron will find him. He also can go set some harder screens which will also get himself open.

Between Bosh and Wade--Wade is the one I trust to have a big game in game 7. Unlike Bosh he has a ton of pride, and he's not going to go out like a punk IMO.

I think this summer whether we win the title or not--Pat is going to look at moving Bosh. Having Bosh is just taking shots away from Wade which is making him less aggressive.

I'd rather move Bosh for Faried and one of the Denver Centers so we can solve our rebounding/size issue in the frontcourt, and then Lebron and Wade can go back to being a duo.

I think Lebron and Wade are really good as a duo--but Bosh is a distraction who hurts them defensively.

If anyone needs to shut it down in game 7 it's bosh.

Let us start Birdman and Haslem, and give Mike Miller the Birdman minutes off the bench.

[DefenseWins]

just cut back his minutes.. give some to miller

This, Miller in his short minutes have given us rebounding, hustle and 3's. He was helping us lead a comeback.

Miller needs more time in general if Wade continues to play like trash.

[Amorphous Blob]

He's done and he will never be accountable.

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[Heatles]

If Bosh can get his ish together, there is nor reason to think the best player in the world can't win an NBA title with an effective Chris Bosh and Mike Miller at Shooting Guard. Mike Miller's game is the better fit in this offense.

Wade's talent USUALLY just overwhelms other teams and he fits, making the team that much better. But to think they can't win with Bron, normal Bosh and a shooting guard that would actually make teams pay with the open looks Bron would get him, is asinine.

[TheChosen618]

I have been saying this for a while now. I said that the Heat should consider shutting down Dwyane Wade at some point if he starts to hurt the team. I then remember a few Heat posters laughing at me and told me to stop posting once I said it.

He is hurting the team now on offense. The only positive he is bringing is his defense. Right now, he is literally a poor man's version of Tony Allen.

[NBA82]

There's no surgery to fix done.

The guy has bruising from 2+ months ago. I'm sure he's in pain, but if that kind of injury diminishes him this much, he's simply not a player we can rely on. We're not talking structural damage.

Game 7 is going to tell us a lot about what Wade has got inside of him at this point. I just don't believe he's the same guy he used to be.

[Heatles]

I will never demand or expect a player to take a shot. They have to be okay with it, and if they choose not to, thats fine, its their body and I completely respect that. But if you are going to insist on playing through an injury where the pain hinders you, you better be taking that needle or just don't play. Again, i'm good if they choose not to and just don't play.

Who knows, maybe he is. I was convinced thats what he went into the locker room for before his explosion at the end of game 5 in the Bulls series.

[Myam333]

In the LeBron interview, I heard the guy say that Wade felt he did not get enough looks. LeBron said he'll look at the tape, but the fact that Wade said that...I don't know what to make of it.

[DWadeno3]

Not a chance in hell. You f*** up for six games and then get to sit down? That s*** wouldn't fly with me. I'll put him out there for 40 minutes and tell him "you either gonna take us to the next round or have a nice early vacation, it's your choice." Challenge their competitiveness, challenge their pride and force them to make it right. If I'm Spo, I'll run some more plays for them, give them different looks and put the pressure on them to produce. If it doesn't work, you can still bench them and have the roleplayers come in, but talent wise the difference between a Wade and a Miller/Allen or a Bosh and a Haslem is too big to not put them out there.
With that being said, I still have the confidence that they'll help us to win this series.

[Grumpy Heat Fan]

Not a chance in hell. You f*** up for six games and then get to sit down? That s*** wouldn't fly with me. I'll put him out there for 40 minutes and tell him "you either gonna take us to the next round or have a nice early vacation, it's your choice." Challenge their competitiveness, challenge their pride and force them to make it right. If I'm Spo, I'll run some more plays for them, give them different looks and put the pressure on them to produce. If it doesn't work, you can still bench them and have the roleplayers come in, but talent wise the difference between a Wade and a Miller/Allen or a Bosh and a Haslem is too big to not put them out there.
With that being said, I still have the confidence that they'll help us to win this series.

Nah bro, Mike Miller is much better than current injured Wade.

[DWadeno3]

Not a chance in hell. You f*** up for six games and then get to sit down? That s*** wouldn't fly with me. I'll put him out there for 40 minutes and tell him "you either gonna take us to the next round or have a nice early vacation, it's your choice." Challenge their competitiveness, challenge their pride and force them to make it right. If I'm Spo, I'll run some more plays for them, give them different looks and put the pressure on them to produce. If it doesn't work, you can still bench them and have the roleplayers come in, but talent wise the difference between a Wade and a Miller/Allen or a Bosh and a Haslem is too big to not put them out there.
With that being said, I still have the confidence that they'll help us to win this series.

Nah bro, Mike Miller is much better than current injured Wade.

Read my post again. I said TALENT WISE the difference between Wade and Miller is too huge to not put Wade out there. That means the chances of Wade having a big game based on that are still much higher than Miller having a big game. Of course would Miller outproduce the Wade we've seen the past couple of games, but that's not a hard thing to do.
If Wade is stinking it up, you can still bench him and throw a guy like Miller out there. But Wade is a huge wildcard, so if I go down, I'll go down with at least having given him a shot. Aside of that, I wouldn't let the guys who were responsible for us being in this position just get out of it and let somebody else shoulder the responsibility of taking us to the next round. That'd be a weak move by Spoelstra.

[Grumpy Heat Fan]

He had 6 games to have a shot.

I've been watching Wade since 2004. He's injured. He's done for the playoffs. This is not about Wade simply being in a slump and he has to snap out of it.

This is MUCH bigger than that. This is Wade not being physically capable of getting out of the slump. He is maybe 55%-65% of his normal self. He is slow. He can't drive. He has no first step.

He won't have any big game. It's not going to happen. Well, MAYBE if he gets a needle shot of Toradol or something like that. But he's toast. His body won't allow him to have a big game.

[MaxPayne]

Wade will drop 30 in G7.

[HIF]

As long as he gives his all I"m happy.

Bron has to remove any thought from his own head that he can do it alone. Stop hesitating to pas, stop holding the ball.

We win if we pass the ball.

All the guards, especially Wade need to attack the rim, from the get go.

So what if Hibbert blocks 5 first quarter shots, he'll also pick up 2 or 3 fouls. Attack him and make the refs call either our star player in Wade or Hibbert. Don't give them a choice. Search the contact.

[HIF]

Wade's post season health < DRose post season health

Dwade post season play >>>>DRose post season play.

[heat in italy]

We gonna have a huge problem dealing with Wade in the future, the way he's playing , he's a 15/5/3 guy who deserves 8m a year. How we gonna address the Diva status and deal with him will eventually decides if Lebron will stay or leave. He is an old 31, who can't shoot and doesn't have the explosiveness to drive anymore. My idea would be take care in the summer of his health and play him like 28/30 minutes a game next year resting him in back to back. And the miracle would be if HE agree to renegotiate his contract and starts to practice like 500 3's a day and became a reliable shooter ....