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还称赞了阿德巴约的进步,看好他未来发展。还希望球队续约德拉季奇,说到希罗的季后赛表现给他留下深刻印象。他也承认球队今年的表现超过他的预期。如果热火真能进总决赛,他希望能看到热火对阵一支洛杉矶的球队。他还提到在迪士尼的“气泡”场地里打球对热火是有优势。
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How’s Dwyane Wade experiencing the Miami Heat’s big playoff run? He shares his thoughts
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 10:36 AM
At the end of last season, the greatest player in Miami Heat history retired as the team missed the playoffs for the third time in five seasons.
There were more questions than answers surrounding the organization back then.
Fast forward to September 2020, a lot of those questions have been answered with the Heat advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 2014 just one season later. Fifth-seeded Miami opens the East finals against the third-seeded Boston Celtics on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. (ESPN).
Future Hall of Fame guard Dwyane Wade, who retired at the end of last season and already had his No. 3 Heat jersey retired by the organization, is watching Miami’s playoff run closely but from afar in his home in the Los Angeles area.
“Even though I played for this organization and we’ve done some incredible things and I know these guys, I’m just a fan,” Wade said during an interview with the Miami Herald. “I watch from afar and I’m coaching like they can hear me. I’m screaming at them like they can hear me and I’m texting them after the game the same way. Hopefully they can hear me. I’m just a fan that knows the game very well and knows the organization and the team very well who has access to the players. It’s like the ultimate fan.”
But the 38-year-old Wade is more than just the ultimate fan. He’s the greatest player in Heat history based on sustained success with the organization and, arguably, the greatest athlete in South Florida sports history.
This marks the Heat’s first postseason appearance without Wade on the roster since the 2000-01 season.
“You still have your connection to the team. It’s still there because it’s immediate,” Wade said. “Being able to be connected with the players and still have that conversation and back-and-forth banter, and giving encouragement or watching the game and giving my inside on what I see. It has been great. As I’ve been told for many years, you enjoy the success of others. I’ve been able to sit back from afar and enjoy the success of the individuals who I know that play for the team now.”
How did the Heat turn things around in just one season after losing Wade to retirement and missing the playoffs last year? It took a mix of smart roster moves and internal player development.
The biggest addition came when the Heat acquired the leading man it was looking for, five-time All-Star Jimmy Butler, through a sign-and-trade deal last summer.
Other moves helped round out the roster: Miami signed undrafted rookie guard Kendrick Nunn on the final day of the 2018-19 season and drafted guard Tyler Herro with the No. 13 pick in last year’s draft. Then the Heat traded James Johnson, Dion Waiters and Justise Winslow for veterans Jae Crowder, Andre Iguodala and Solomon Hill in February.
But internal player development was just as important for the Heat this season, with third-year center Bam Adebayo making his first appearance in the NBA All-Star Game and second-year forward Duncan Robinson setting the franchise record for threes made in a season.
“Congratulations to them, man, and all those guys for really going out and making something out of what people looked at from the outside as nothing,” Wade said of the Heat. “With drafting Tyler at the pick that we had and then with going to get Kendrick Nunn, and understanding you got certain pieces that fit with those pieces. Executive of the Year definitely goes to Riley.”
Wade said he has been in frequent contact with Adebayo, Butler and Udonis Haslem during the playoff run. The 13-time All-Star added that he has also reached out to others on the Heat’s roster this season, including Herro and Nunn, when he feels the need to offer advice or encouragement.
“There is that fine line,” Wade made clear. “You don’t always want to text them to say, ‘Oh, I’ve seen you do this. I’ve seen you do that. You need to do this, you need to do that.’ But those guys still respect me, so at times I want to give them my encouragement. Sometimes I want to give them my analysis of what I see. I don’t do it all the time, but I do it enough. I know it feels good to them to know, as well, that I’m watching and that I’m proud and that I’m invested in their success or in whatever way. I make sure that I stay connected.”
There’s a reason Wade has made a point to maintain a running conversation specifically with Adebayo and Butler. Not only are they both former teammates of Wade, but they are also the Heat’s two All-Stars and on-court leaders.
Butler and Wade became close friends during their time as Chicago Bulls teammates in 2016-17.
“To see the things that he wants and always wanted as a player, now to see it come to fruition the way it has with the Miami Heat in his first year,” Wade said, “it’s just what Jimmy has always wanted, man. He’s just so thankful for the opportunity that he has to do it.”
The narrative around Butler has changed in recent weeks amid the Heat’s playoff success, but Wade insists Butler hasn’t changed. Once labeled as hard to play with and coach, Butler has become one of Miami’s leaders in his first season with the organization.
“Jimmy Butler has absolutely not changed,” Wade said. “You know that saying: Winning cures all. That’s what it is. You put Jimmy in an environment where his — I always say his crazy and I don’t want that to come off like Jimmy is crazy. But I always say Jimmy has his own way, his own style and it doesn’t fit with everyone. Along this journey, everyone has tried to make Jimmy the scapegoat. Jimmy is the problem. Jimmy is this, Jimmy is that. Then you put him with the right person who actually has the same kind of crazy with the Miami Heat organization overall, and it just makes sense. There might not be another organization in the NBA that makes sense for Jimmy.
“Ultimately, Jimmy’s whole thing this whole time is he just wants other guys that work like him, that play the game as hard as he does, that can execute the game when it matters and things of that nature. That’s how he built himself. He built himself on the work that he puts in on film and on wins and losses in the game. Some organizations may not be ready for that kind of player. It may be too much for coaches, it may be too much for other players because everyone has different goals. This has been Jimmy’s goal along.”
Butler has averaged 21.8 points on 47.7 percent shooting, 5.6 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 2.1 steals this postseason.
Wade knew Butler would flourish with the Heat dating back to their conversations as Bulls teammates. One example that Wade brought up when discussing what Butler was missing prior to signing with the Heat:
Butler and Wade were fined by the Bulls and benched for the start of a game after they both made postgame comments questioning their teammates’ effort and commitment to winning in January 2017.
“The Heat say culture and we say culture all the time, but let’s talk about what that really means,” Wade said. “That’s what Jimmy was looking for, what he was missing. And that’s what we got fined for to just be honest. Me and Jimmy both got fined in Chicago because of holding guys accountable. It’s not about misses or makes, you know what I mean. It’s about caring about the game the same way we care about it. Not from the standpoint of not laughing or you got to cry after every game, it’s the way you perform. When you have a lead, it’s the way you hold onto a lead and how much you care about that. Stuff of that nature. So, he has that in Miami. He has the organization and it’s passed down to the players because they recruit players and bring in players who fit that same mold.”
As for Adebayo, Wade praised the 23-year-old center.
Adebayo made a big jump in his first season as a full-time NBA starter, finishing the regular season with career-high averages in points (15.9), rebounds (10.2), assists (5.1), steals (1.1), blocks (1.3) and minutes (33.6).
“He has no ceiling. He has none,” Wade said of Adebayo. “I won’t put any on him either because I’ve been that young guy who a lot of people didn’t have high expectations for, but you knew he could do something. Then look what happened to my career. Bam has no ceiling at all, man. I think we all knew that Bam was a Miami Heat guy. That’s all we knew. We knew that he was in line with the Alonzos and the UDs of the world. He’s that kind of talent and kind of player, with the way he approaches things.
“What he has been able to accomplish in his third year, winning the Skills Challenge as a big guy. Then coming back and playing in an All-Star Game. He could have gone into the Dunk Contest if he wanted to. He has the ability to do everything. One day, he’s going to become a great outside shooter. Right now, he’s becoming a great in-the-post, face-up, midrange kind of shooter. He’s going to eventually extend it and he’s going to become a great shooter.”
Wade added that he hopes the Heat and former teammate Goran Dragic, who will be a free agent this offseason, “are getting that contract done and extending this relationship. Understanding that he can be a guy who can come off the bench and be big for you, and also he can start for you at times and still be big for you. I’m so happy for him because Goran is the nicest human being ever. He deserves everything.”
But there’s one player who has never been Wade’s teammate who has really impressed him, and it’s the Heat’s 20-year-old rookie.
Herro has averaged 14.7 points on 41.3 percent shooting from the field and 40 percent shooting on threes, 4.9 rebounds and 3.3 assists in 32.3 minutes per game this postseason. He has averaged the most points, assists and minutes among rookies in the playoffs.
“When the Heat drafted him, that was really my first introduction to who he was and I saw the way he was dressed,” Wade recalls. “I was like, ‘OK, this dude got some swag.’ From that moment on, you’re just going to watch him. You’re going to keep your eye on him. Then he backed it up with his play, and you’re like: ‘Oh, OK. Already? As a rookie, he’s already backing it up.’ I mean, it’s special obviously. What he has is something that a lot of people are kind of like, ‘Damn, we don’t get to see that out of a guy that’s 19 or 20 years old a lot.’ But it’s immediate. The Heat got them another good one.”
EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS
Wade admits he didn’t expect the Heat to make it to the conference finals this season. But as soon as the NBA moved games to a quarantine bubble at Disney amid the COVID-19 pandemic, he knew Miami had the potential to exceed expectations in that unique environment.
“Once you go into the bubble, now you know that the Miami Heat has an advantage because you know the inside and you know the way the guys think,” Wade said. “As UD said, you put them in a room with anybody, you like their chances of coming out. So the bubble changed my mentality with the Heat. Because I knew in that kind of environment with these young guys and everything and all the elements of it, that they could be very successful by just how hard they play and how well they play together and the leaders that they have.
“I’m proud and I’m happy that the organization is back to the point where they’re a part of the conversation in sports again. It’s great to watch the success and rise of these guys.
In normal circumstances, Wade would be watching some of the Heat’s playoff games from a courtside seat at AmericanAirlines Arena. For now, he’ll continue to follow along from Los Angeles.
“I would have been sitting right next to Chris Bosh at AmericanAirlines Arena talking a lot of trash,” Wade said with a laugh. “I look at it right now and I know it’s the bubble and who knows how it would have worked out if it wasn’t in a bubble, but it’s a possibility that you got an L.A. team and a Miami team in the Finals. That’s like the best of both worlds for me, and I’m going to miss out on it. It’s unfortunate. But I’m definitely going to be rooting from afar.”
Like many Heat fans, Wade is just excited to see what comes next.
“Being a fan of the game and hoping for the best, man. No one knows. There’s no clear-cut winner,” Wade said of Miami’s playoff chances. “We all have our teams that we think that they should win a championship. But the Heat has just as good a chance as anybody. That’s not just saying that, that’s really what they’ve proven with their play. I’m excited.”