Dwyane Wade
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283 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Dwyane Wade’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Fourth quarter, clutch time, money. Shea, MVP, right? You got these guys who are at that level, but when you talk about who got it, who got that sauce, Ant-Man just got that sauce. Now, they got to keep it up because we all know those first eight games mean nothing. The first eight wins mean nothing. You got to get to eight more of them. And so who knows if he's going to get there.
But right now, if you ask me, I'm going to say he got the sauce that you need to get to that final.
No, no, no. Something changed about him, right? No, he grew up a little bit. I mean, it's only one year difference, but it's a big difference. He got to experience it. He was in the Western Conference Finals last year. He played against the guys who went to the finals. That's a different summer than someone who lost in the second round or the first round when you lose in that space.
And so you see someone, you see a mature player. He had the sauce. He's had the sauce his whole life. I'm sure he had let you know when he was five he had the sauce. But once you lose in the way that he lost, you watch the team that you lost to go off to the finals and all those things, it's a different mentality that you come back with. Ant-Man has come back and put his spirit into the guys.
And you can see it when they're playing, right? And he's a leader of that team. And so if I'm choosing, Maybe a little biased because I see a little, you know, maybe I see a little reflection sometimes. That's what I thought, yeah. Yeah, maybe a little biased. Yeah. You know what I mean? As a young guy, I mean, I want mine at 24. He's 23. You know, I want to see somebody come and take it.
But I think he got what is needed when you get to that stage. As you understand, you heard Shea say the other day, game seven, he was like, I was nervous. Yeah. You could feel it in the first quarter. You supposed to be. You have never felt these emotions before. Yeah. That is the second round seven game. you gotta keep going. You gotta get to these, it gets hot.
Listen, you get more nervous as it goes on. And so I think someone like Ant is just, I think he's ready for that step and for that stage. And that stage, them lights get even brighter. That popcorn, it smells even better in that. It gets even richer in that arena. That crowd get even louder. And so to win, the ability to be able to pump that confidence in those other guys is what it's going to be.
And OKC has what I think is the best team overall from top to bottom in this. But it's not just about that when you get to this place that they're hopefully going. Their defense is so good.
You have to love it.
Yeah, you have to love it. At this time of year, you got to love playing on the road more than you love playing at home. It's easy to play at home. You're not saying you're going to win everyone, but you're going to get more help. The role players. You're going to get more help. On the road, you're not going to get as much help, bro. And you know what? So what? This is your responsibility.
Everybody looking at you. You the man. You the one with all the commercials. You the one with all the attention. They all looking at you, and you got to love that. And so I personally love that. I love playing on the road. I love going to win on the road. We won our first finals on the road in game six. I had 36. I love that.
Put me in a position that is the most uncomfortable and watch me come out smelling like roses. And so if you don't have that mentality, you're not winning that championship. I don't care how close you don't give you go up to. Oh, right. You got to love winning on the road. It's not going to happen.
It's Folgers Crystal in the morning. It's the sweet smell of coffee in the morning.
Oh, it's incredible. It's nothing better than that. It's nothing better than when you walk out and you got the opposing fans looking at you. They just respect you. They end up cheering for you. It's nothing better than turning them into a fan of yours. And that's the kind of aura that Ant has. He has that aura where you hate him, but when he get done, you're going to love him.
Because you can do nothing but respect it along the way. And so, yeah, it's nothing better than that.
Yeah, I see people flying all the time.
Yeah, because they didn't want me to touch the ball.
Well, yeah, because here's the thing. If I'm not a three-point shooter and you play off me, when I get the ball, I'm coming at you downhill. You cannot stop me. So your goal is to make sure that I don't touch the ball. And so it was a stat when I played in my prime years where I think I was up there like with Ray Allen and those guys when it came to –
the defense trying not to allow me to get the ball at the three point line. I was up there with the top three point shooters and I was the worst by far three point shooter. But some guys you just do not want them to get the ball in their hands because that's the rhythm for them. And it wasn't my job to shoot threes. You know what I mean?
Like you're Michael Jordan, he had a quote where he talked about, he's like, I don't wanna be a great three point shooter because it takes away what I'm great at and what I love about my game and the game. Because it makes me stay on a perimeter searching for threes. No, I am downhill. I am trying to put you in the basket. I have to get in the paint so I can get my teammates shots. That is my job.
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