Replace 2011 Rose with 2011 Wade

[fpliii]

You must be confusing with 2009 Wade.

2011 Wade put up numbers but dude was awful.

He was the same player in 09, 10, 11 really. Just had to share a ball with LeBron in his final year.

[Dresta]

Wade was inconsistent in 11 partially because he was adjusting to playing with Bron and not being the teams primary ballhandler. That Chicago team was stacked and a defensive juggernaut and would have allowed Wade to maintain his role as primary playmaker/scorer - something he did better than Rose. I can't see how the team would not be better with Wade than with Rose.

Think how good defensively a lineup of Hinrich/Wade/Deng/Gibson/Noah or Asik would have been.

[Basketbolero]

Wade was inconsistent in 11 partially because he was adjusting to playing with Bron and not being the teams primary ballhandler. That Chicago team was stacked and a defensive juggernaut and would have allowed Wade to maintain his role as primary playmaker/scorer - something he did better than Rose. I can't see how the team would not be better with Wade than with Rose.

Think how good defensively a lineup of Hinrich/Wade/Deng/Gibson/Noah or Asik would have been.

Hinrich wasn't there though. If we just switched Rose and Wade the Bulls starting PG would be CJ Watson, not a pretty sight.

[red1]

2011 wade was inconsistent as hell, there were stretches of regular season where he was struggling bad. chicago would been a low seeded playoff team with Wade, probably gets bounced by hawks

no

[red1]

they would have been a much better team. especially in the playoffs

[Mass Debator]

No one on the Heat could've stopped Wade. Mike Miller? Eddie House? Bibby? Rose? Imagine Lebron trying to guard Wade's nasty pick in roll game getting picked all over the place. Tiring.

Bulls defense would be better and more explosive as well. Wade and Rose's point skills are interchangeable. They would've had a greater chance at winning it all with Wade than Rose.

[nathanjizzle]

NOPE. people here claiming that the 11' team would win more games with wade than rose are delusional. bulls were first place team in the league that team, and somehow wade is suppose to carry that team beyond that?

i agree the bulls would have done better in the playoffs, because rose just was inefficient in round 1 and 2, and just sucked in the ecf.