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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My job ain't to sit out there like, woo, woo, woo. That wasn't my responsibility. But I did find respect. I did look at the respect that I got amongst my peers that knew I'm not making this shot but 29% of the time, but you guarding me like I'm Ray Allen, one of the greatest three-point shooters ever. That's respect right there. So now I'm going to back cut your ass.
Did you say you have the best pump fake? I stole it from Sam Cassell. Oh, Sam Cassell. I stole it from Sam Cassell. I just added my own little mix to it, but I got it from Sam Cassell.
Well, I watched him do it and I was like, he's coming up the court hella slow. It's the slowest pump fake ever and everyone's jumping. and going for it. So because I wasn't a three point shooter, and because I will come downhill at a player, the defense natural reaction is to stop you from scoring. The closer you get to the basket, the more you wanna stop someone from scoring.
Now I'm really gonna pump fake you the closer I get in. And so everyone's job is to jump, close out, jump. If I create space and I get you a step off, your job is to recover. How do you recover? And so for me, it's just, it's the law. I understand the body. I understand like, all right, you gotta, you're gonna come back and I'm gonna do this and you have to contest my shot.
You don't want me to score. So I'm gonna give you this. You're gonna jump. I'm gonna act like you did something to me and I'm gonna go to the free throw line. So to me, it was like, it's all about, you gotta have patience. You know, I talked about this, and I talk about this all the time. A lot of players, when they get closer to the rim, they lose patience.
That's when you got to have your most patience, the closer you get. Because the defense has less patience. Right. When you are in scoring, and when you're in scoring position, the defense gets a little erratic, and they want to strip you or block your shot. That's when I'm really going to hit you with these slow-ass pump fakes. Yeah. Totally different speed. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Me. Me?
How do you say that, though?
I don't think he even played pro. That's like the gold conversation. Whoever you think is who it is.
Would you ever see?
Oh, yeah. Listen, it was game plans. You would hear the whole coaching staff on the opposite team say, do not jump for his pump fake. And I'd be like, you know you're going to jump for my next pump fake. Uh-huh.
because it's in your mind now yeah right is now they have they have made it worse for you because they're now telling you don't jump for my pump fake it's coming you don't know when but i'm about to hit you with these three jumpers in your face and you're not gonna like that so what you're gonna do eventually you're gonna try to stop me that mean you gotta jump because if you don't jump i'm just dotting your eye so eventually you're gonna jump and i'm gonna get you i used to tell people all the time i'm gonna get you you know that right because if you don't that's a bucket
Oh, I got you.
Okay.
Oh yeah. Uh, he's, one of the most important people in my development. In my development as the player that you guys got a chance to see, Tom Crean. Tom Crean was on my ass to a level of tears coming down a lot of times. Because I didn't understand why he was on me so hard, but he obviously saw something in me that I didn't know was there.
But I was talking about one of the things Tom Crean taught me, and which made me a very good basketball player. And it was my ability to get so low on pick and rolls. And we drilled this over and over. We drilled anytime I touched a paint, you better dunk it. Like this was my summer workouts with Tom Cream.
to the point where like, you know, I was young, I was leave, get kicked out of practice or throw the ball and walk out of practice and he would come right down and get your ass back up here. Like he was on me and I was young, I was going through a lot of things in my family life when I went to college.
and I wasn't mature enough yet, not a lot of things going on, but he would not allow me to be less than what he thought that I was gonna be. He thought I was gonna be great. The year before I entered the draft, I told everybody I was leaving and entering the draft because I didn't wanna work. We were running lines and all this shit, and I was like, I'm out, I'm going to the NBA.
He flew in at like 3 o'clock in the morning, called me down to the office and scared the living shit out of me. But what he pretty much told me is that you didn't come here to be average. I'm not allowing you to go to the NBA to be in the second round or to be late first round. You came here to be great. And great has been in the lottery.
So you ain't there, you ain't going nowhere type, you know, like father figure. He was a father figure for me at that time. And I respected him. Obviously, you know, I stayed one more year and I went number five. Right. And so he was just somebody who was on me and he saw something in me that I didn't even know was inside.
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