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Originally Posted by dirk digler
There is no doubt Wade is a declining player but if you watched him in the playoffs prior to the Finals he actually was playing well. He was averaging 18.5 pts/game and shooting above 50%. As I said he averaged 20 pts and shot 55% against supposedly the best defense in the NBA. I don't know what happened to him in Finals but he didn't show up and he wasn't the only one.
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Before the Spurs, the Heat were playing a bunch of bad teams that they didn't even need to give a full effort against. Wade was still nothing like his former self even then. And apart from a few games in last year's playoffs (Game 7 against Indiana, Game 4 against the Spurs), he was also quite bad then too.
His decline began years ago. Really, the last time he was anything close to his past elite self was the 2011-2012 season. He's fallen off massively since in every way possible.