Dwyane Wade Answers Basketball Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED

should the nba move the three-point line back and add a four-point line absolutely not hi i'm dwyane wade and today i'm answering your twitter questions this is basketball support the first question comes from at trustavoid are three pointers messing with the game of basketball would you enjoy watching the nba if 80 of shots were just three-pointers how many is too many if you're making them it's never too many if you're missing all of them that's too many i wouldn't enjoy playing the game with 80 of the shots being threes but i can understand the nature of the game today i know that three points is more than two points and so if his team is shooting 63s and one team is shooting 30. who's going to win that game coming from a different era you want to see the game played just the way that you played it but you got to try to figure out a way to appreciate the game the way it's played in today's arrow at ta underscore green 30 what's worse getting blown out by 20 or losing by one because of a buzzer beater losing by one because of a buzzer beater if you get beat by 20 i mean you've known for a long time that the game was over you get beat at the buzzer it's immediate you don't know how to process it so playing toronto raptors in the playoffs in 2016 and cal lowry hit this like past half court three-pointer the center game in overtime that hurt i think if you if anybody can see the clip you'll see my body just kind of like fall down and fade it hurt so bad at shooting like a god what is the hardest shot in basketball the open shot sounds like it would be the easiest for me the open shot i personally like a contest because a contest allows me to be able to understand how much arc i need to put on a shot makes me focus a little bit more open shot it makes me think too much so i'll take a contest so the question is from ed miles polytic and he asked what rule changes or enhancements would you like to see added or altered in the nba you know what i i actually and i personally think the nba does an amazing job of understanding um that they need to adjust to the style of play of players that they need to always make sure they they're adding to the game of basketball so i came in the nba when people were hand checking when people can put their hands on and they can guide you over screens and where you can go and then i was in an era where they took your hands off and you had to guard a guy like this how do you guard a guy that's super fast and super strong and you know all that that's getting the ball screen you can't touch him so the nba understands what the fans need the fans at that time wanted more scoring they wanted more excitement and so they changed the rules to alter that so i'm open to you know the the evolution and the growth that the nba always think of so i think it's great x fast model defense debate no middle or no baseline great question i've always been taught no middle because once the offensive player gets to the middle everything on the court opens up and so now you have to pull help off of the shooters off of the scores because the ball has penetrated the middle of the gap right and so once the penetrates the middle now everything opens if you go baseline the baseliners becomes a defender and so now all you need is you as a defender and then just the baseline and so i think no middle this next question is from at meech underscore bold you think the triangle offense as a primary motion offense can work in today's nba i do i actually do to me it's not about the offense it's about the mindset of the players in the offense it's an offense that's set up for a lot of movement a certain talent of of individuals so if you have the right team you right if you have the right personnel 100 next question is from the vjb17 why do nba players have such a hard time running offense against zone that's a great question once you go to a zone it makes you play straight up you know most of the game you know you're in attack mode if you have the ball off a pick-and-roll or if you catch it on the wing you're in attack mode something about the zone that puts you around the perimeter and it makes you catch the ball straight up and so first thing you're going to do besides pass fake is try to figure out a way to pass the ball to someone else it's not set up for you to be in attack mode any player that it figures out that you can still stand attack mode you can still run your regular offense through his own are the best offensive teams in the game at gabby underscore roma guys question mark how do you break someone's ankle in basketball it's having the ability to be able to shift your body quick enough stopping on a dime like this while the defender is trying to cut your move off and be able to bring it back or stop on a dime and the defenders now is trying to recover and maybe they slide or maybe they fall or maybe they trip over their own feet at fabio 11 is there any traveling calls in the modern nba i don't think so as a fan watching the game just like you fabio i never see a traveling call you can call travel on almost every play and once the nba has allowed an extra few steps it becomes hard to even call travel so i would say if you're a veteran in the nba you don't get troubles called if you're a rookie in the nba you're gonna hear that whistle a lot next question is from at mfort underscore 13. should the nba move the three-point line back and add a four-point line absolutely not i don't think so you know maybe you have to ask guys who are shooting these threes i wasn't really a three-point shooter but i do think it's incredible that guys are coming past how of course shooting the ball like it's a layup but the court is the same size the rim is the same height like certain things is just the same when you're trying to match guys and say this guy is the greatest and this guy's the greatest how do you do that when you put a four-point line or eventually if you put a five-point line and then now it doesn't make it an even playing field from the standpoint of stacking up you know the talent in each generation the next question comes from at clay dave who's the best player to never win an nba mvp regular season he says i say dwayne wait i don't know all the guys who have not won nba regular season mvp um so clay i'm gonna go with you that guy dwyane wade next question comes from et hartfield annie she's never gotten a satisfactory answer to why the harlem globetrotters don't play in the nba so i'd like to say this it's a lot of basketball players who are very very good to make it to the nba the level of greatness you have to be the level of a teammate you have to be is different the harlem gold trotters and guys who play in the playground they're more individual players you know the nba really focused on the team aspect and not having five guys for individual individually great maybe having one two and three at max but you have to play roles it's hard to learn how to play a role even though you're talented in the game of basketball next question from ed waldy underscore 2000 how do i hit clutch free throws it's something about that free throw line when you up there by yourself and everyone's watching you it's the only time where everything stops i always try to visualize the moment if i miss certain free throws in practice i would make myself run for it and i don't like running so i would when i get to line i'm going to focus more and so when i got to the game i was i was able to be able to focus more because i know that i didn't like you know missing free throws you know kind of as i practice and trying to get to that point next question is from at dain snz which is season underscore what nba player has the best nickname of all time it's a lot of guys the first one comes to mind is paul pierce the truth i feel like it gets no doper than that but alan armstrong answer to be the answer that's dope dame lillard logo lillard like there's so many amazing nicknames but the first one comes to mind is the truth next question is from at esther caroline's how do i get in the zone i cannot tell you esther how to get in the zone but what i can say is once you in that zone you will never want to leave it next question is from at mr2humble3 who is the hardest person in the nba to guard well first of all it's kevin durant he's a 6 11 maybe 7-1 depending on how kd you know want to be perceived but it's hard to guard a guy who has so much talent to be able to put the ball on the floor can score from inside the paint to the free-throw line to the mid-range to the three-point line back at half court but if i had to pick another player i would say giannis it's hard to guard giannis because of his uh his attack he's also 7-1 he's a footer coming down with with the ability to be able to handle the ball he runs fastest point guards and just as big as the center so it's hard to guard a guy like that who's strong and who is aggressive in his monsters he is on a basketball floor it's hard to guard him as well next question comes from justin wolfson he says i think d wade is going to explain in his memoir how he flipped andy v upside down on that dunk how i think it happened is i'm coming down the floor and i'm coming down full steam ahead andy is backing up right away i'm winning because i have full force and andy's already he's backpedaling because he's trying to get back on defense and so once i take off and i hit andy body to body he doesn't have as much momentum i have all my momentum coming this way he only have the ability to jump straight up this way so the force that i was bringing coming down the court made him not only get dunked on but made him fall back legs flipped up and hit the back of the uh of the thing behind him so i think that's the way that dunk has been called maybe top 10 greatest dunks um nba of all time and it's definitely my best dunk in my career so it's a big moment it was one of my favorite nba moments every every year is one of the things they bring back like this happened on this date and so if they bring it back as november 12th this happened then you know it was some and finally i'm gonna say kr junglas sorry if i got that wrong what makes the difference between a great player and ordinary and average ones to make it to the nba is you know 400 plus players so it's a very small amount of players that make it to the nba it's millions every year that's trying to get into the nba and what separates a player who's who's very good and who has talent is something as simple as the work that you're willing to put in you know on your craft in the at your craft is understanding what to work on how to work on it and when to work on it so for me it's something as simple as hard work a lot of guys have talent and they think that their talent is going to take them to you know that level but the work that you put in the environments you put yourself in when you're working hard allows you to be great in moments where a lot of people shrink all right that's it i hope you guys learned something from me about my knowledge of the game of basketball i hope you guys are as excited as i am to pick up my new book dwayne until next time that's all i got you

Channel: WIRED

Views: 2,037,987

Keywords: basketball questions, basketball tips, dwayne wade, dwyane wade, dwyane wade basketball, dwyane wade basketball questions, dwyane wade heat, dwyane wade interview, dwyane wade interview wired, dwyane wade miami, dwyane wade nba, dwyane wade tech support, dwyane wade tech support basketball, dwyane wade twitter, innovation, ott tech support, science & technology, tech support, tech support dwyane wade, wired

Id: mANi4GeEyDg

Length: 10min 48sec (648 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 21 2021