Dwyane Wade takes Frank Kaminsky to school (Video)
By John Buhler
Dwyane Wade exposed a great mismatch heavily in his favor early in the Miami Heat’s game with the Charlotte Hornets by turning Frank Kaminsky into a fool.
In the NBA Playoffs, it’s all about finding and exploiting the mismatch.
The face of the Miami Heat franchise in All-Star shooting guard Dwyane Wade had Charlotte Hornets rookie big man Frank Kaminsky covering him in the low post.
Wade asserted his utter dominance over Kaminsky down low in the opening minutes of Game 5 of the Heat’s first round series with Charlotte down in South Beach on Wednesday night.
Though Kaminsky was the 2015 Naismith Player of the Year during his senior year at Wisconsin, playing in the 2015 National Championship Game, and went No. 9 overall to the Hornets in the 2015 NBA Draft, he had absolutely no shot at stopping the perennial All-Star and future Basketball Hall of Famer early in Game 5.
Wade is the most beloved player to have ever worn a Heat uniform. Many in Charlotte are beginning to question why owner Michael Jordan was so adamant about drafting Kaminsky at No. 9. Boston would have traded four picks to move up to No. 9 to draft Duke’s Justise Winslow, now playing huge minutes for the Heat.
If Wade finds himself being guarded by Kaminsky on the block, expect him to use his elite agility to blow by the rookie big man once again. All it took was a drive and a pump fake using a pivot foot to shake off the significantly taller Kaminsky on that possession.
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