When the Miami Heat and Toronto Raptors tip off their 2016 second-round series Tuesday night at Air Canada Centre, their starting guards can look across the floor and see mirror images of themselves.
The reflection is crystal clear at the shooting guard spots, where Dwyane Wade and DeMar DeRozan have booked multiple NBA All-Star Game appearances despite neither having a reliable three-ball in his arsenal. They're crafty isolation scorers—Wade's battling Father Time with skill and DeRozan is exploiting his youth with explosive athleticism—like Wade was regularly during his younger days.
"He reminds me of me," Wade said of DeRozan, per Ethan Skolnick of the Miami Herald. "I love the way he mixes in his shot fakes, and his athletic ability, his post game, his mid-range, that's about the same things I tried to do about the same time when he did it."
At point guard, Goran Dragic and Kyle Lowry—once teammates with the Houston Rockets—share more of a fun-house-mirror resemblance. They don't play the same style, but they do have the same responsibility of setting an aggressive tone for their team. ...
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