does DJ have D-Wade syndrome?

[mufan924]

....granted the fall in the game yesterday looked like it hurt, does anyone else feel like James may have Dwyane Wade syndrome, that is, he plays recklessly and whenever he falls he always acts as if he is injured? just wondering if anyone else shares my sentiments. completely unrelated....trevor MmmBakwe has awesome footwork and i can wait for his first alley-oop and sportscenter-worthy block

[ChicosBailBonds]

....granted the fall in the game yesterday looked like it hurt, does anyone else feel like James may have Dwyane Wade syndrome, that is, he plays recklessly and whenever he falls he always acts as if he is injured? just wondering if anyone else shares my sentiments. completely unrelated....trevor MmmBakwe has awesome footwork and i can wait for his first alley-oop and sportscenter-worthy block

Well first of all, "whenever he falls he always acts as if he is injured" couldn't be further from the truth.

It's hyperbole at its finest.  Both Wade and James are fearless players that go to the hole and mix it up, that's what makes them so effective.  Wade has size, James does not.  So yes, at times he will get smashed to the floor and writhe in pain.  I don't pretend to know anyone's pain threshold, let alone determine if it hurt or not.  On Saturday, it looked bad.  The fall he had the other day against Pitt, my God the kid fell about 5 feet vertically onto an already damaged wrist.

I've seen him fall plenty of other times and he gets up, doesn't show any ill effects at all.

[Big Papi]

Their were 3 incidents this year where anyone who would have taken the hit DJ took, would have withered in pain.  The first Seton Hall game where his legs were cut from underneath him and he landed with all his weight on his wrist.  I don't imagine anyone gets up from that immediately shakes it off like it was nothing and not have a badly sprained wrist.  Than I think it might have been in the Cincy game, basically the same thing happens where he lands hard with all his weight on that same wrist.  Finally anyone who actually saw the replay yesterday had to cringe.  That easily could of been a season ending knee injury the way that 260lb center landed on DJ's leg.  I know when I saw the replay and cringed.  I thought our season was over.  Thankfully for whatever reason, it was not nearly as bad as it could of been.  I know some of you are bringing this up mainly because of DJ's cramp issues from his first year but there again any one who has had a cramp knows damn well that it hurts something bad.   

I really can't believe some of you are making an issue out of this.  It must really suck that we are winning that some of you need to pick on DJ for no reason what so ever. 

[augoman]

admittedly, DJ and the others take a hell of a pounding during a game- seems to me Matthews moreso, but the histrionics are getting old.