Healthy Dwyane Wade Forces Offensive Adjustments for Struggling Miami Heat

March 15th, 2014 by Ethan Skolnick Leave a reply »

MIAMI — There aren't any perfectly accurate analogies between sports and life, no matter how often scribes try to make them stick. But since the Heat themselves have referred to their relationships—particularly among the superstars—as a "marriage" the past few years, and referred to the team as a whole as a "family," maybe this one will have some merit:

Everyone got a little too used to Dwyane Wade not being around the house.

No, he wasn't absent all the time, but just enough for others to adjust their activities and responsibilities accordingly. It was either that, or complain about who, and what, they were missing. And that wouldn't have served anyone well.

So Chris Bosh and LeBron James—mostly James—picked up more of the chores, even those that the franchise, for nearly a decade, had relied upon Wade to complete. Otherwise, too many tasks would have gone undone. They even came to appreciate the extra burden, and to appreciate the appreciation that came their way for handling it.



And so it shouldn't stun anyone, now that Wade has moved back in, apparently for good an ...

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