Why did dwyane wade play small forward the other day against canada?

Question

on friday, usa basketball team played against canada. lebron james was still injured. so they had the starting lineup as: PG- kidd, SG - kobe, SF - wade, PF - melo, C - dwight.

this doesnt make sense to me, kobe is 6'6'' and wade is 6'4'', shouldnt the taller guy (kobe) play small forward and have dwyane play shooting guard?

Answer 1

because its only canada?

does that help your question.

Answer 2

Does it really matter? Look how much they beat them by

Answer 3

wade playz like a big guy

he got hopz dude u saw how many points he scored

Answer 4

he was filling in for the king

Answer 5

Wade is their sixth man, that's why. It really didn't matter who filled in for Lebron since USA is much better than Canada overall in basketball. It'd be more conventional to put Melo at sf and Boozer/Bosh at pf, but manhandling Canada offensively is a lot more fun.

Answer 6

probably because he was filling in for james and kobe is more of a shooter so if they moved him to the forward position he wouldnt be as useful

Answer 7

cuz he plays likk a big guy... i mean he did pretti gudd if u ask me

Answer 8

You know I thought that exact same thing....But even so they probably would have still killed Canada if he was at Center so I guess it wouldn't really matter.....I figured they would have started Chris Bosh in the place of LeBron James so everyone would be able to play their natural position

C Dwight Howard

PF Chris Bosh

SF Carmelo Anthony

SG Kobe Bryant

PG Jason Kidd

But either way, he did really well...even though everyone pretty much expected a blowout to the point where a 60 point win is like a 10 point win

Answer 9

He's versatile.