There was a time when Dwyane Wade didn’t think about the game.
He simply reacted. When he was winning Finals MVPs and leading the league in scoring with a scoring average of 30.2 points per game, the Miami Heat superstar simply relied on instincts. Now, at the age of 33, Wade doesn’t so much depend upon instincts—he thinks things through.
Following Thursday night’s victory over the Sacramento Kings in which Wade hoisted a season-high 23 shot attempts, the veteran guard spoke of the evolution of how he mentally processes the game. Via Ethan Skolnick of The Miami Herald:
“I didn’t have to think about the game until ‘Bron and Chris came down in 2010.