Quadir Copeland started his career as a tweener who couldn’t find a real role with Syracuse. He then went to McNeese State, where Wade tinkered with him in many roles before settling on him as a primary ball handler.
The problem was never his measurables; it was the fact that he hadn’t really honed the intangibles of the PG position. And do you blame him? The kid is 6’6, has athleticism off the charts, and is an elite scorer around the rim. Not many coaches were itching to cram a guy like this into a PG role where he’d need to put a lot of energy into distributing the basketball and dictating the pace and flow of the game.