As there are five stages of grief, there are three very definite phases people go through when thinking seriously about Dwyane Wade’s 2013-14 season.
Phase one is visceral: The realization that Wade just didn't look the way that he used to.
He was a step slow, seemed sort of languorous and lethargic at turns and—most disconcertingly—just didn’t complete many of the head-turning, quintessentially Wade-ian feats of athletic excellence that were his calling card in his younger and more prosperous years.
Phase two is the realization, upon inspecting his numbers, that Wade was actually pretty sneaky-effective in 2013-14
At 58.8, Wade posted the highest true shooting percentage of his career, according to Basketball-Reference, and finished second among all shooting guards in player efficiency rating. And while Wade’s per-36-minute numbers were unusually low for him, his numbers per 100 possessions were roughly in line with his career averages. The only statistical area where he clearly declined was scoring, and that was only because he was taking fewer shots.
But then co ...
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