Wade says his team preparation is ‘too loosey-goosey.’ Wants more regimen, discipline and structure.

Will Wade had an interesting take on his team during his Weekly Radio Show at The Pit in downtown Raleigh.

When asked about his team’s preparation, Wade went into how his team is a little loose for his liking and hints that he’s having a tough time getting a read on them.

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“Look, sometimes with the team, like it’s my job as a head coach to win, all right? It’s not necessarily my job to win how I would like to win. It’s my job to win. So our team is not really exactly how I would like to win.

I’m not talking about from a basketball standpoint, necessarily, that too, but really from like the way we prepare, the way we do things, like it’s very, it’s much more loosey-goosey than I would like. I like regiment, discipline, structure. We’re very, very loose.

That’s just kind of the personalities we have. And so when it’s like that, you kind of ride the wave, and we’ve been riding the wave and as a coach, I didn’t really want to interrupt that. We’d won six in a row, but deep down, you’re sitting there going, you kind of make excuses.

You’re kind of like, ah, this is who we are. And we just kind of figured out this is who we are. I mean, our practice the day before the Louisville game on Sunday, we couldn’t stop our scout team in transition.

How the hell were we gonna stop Louisville in transition? We couldn’t stop our scout team. And so like, but we’ve been really poor in practice and played pretty decent a lot of the time. So it’s like, eh, you know.

So we needed, we probably need a happy medium from where we were to where I would like us to be. We need to kind of get back to a happy medium there.”

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While I think the quote is interesting, I don’t find it surprising. This team has been tough for everyone to read, and they have games where they just look too nonchalant. Now, that hasn’t been the case as much since ACC play started, but there has always been the tendency to take the foot off the gas when they get up big, and the fact that Wade needed to go full scorched-earth after the games in Maui should have been a hint.

At this point, I’m not sure you’re going to change the personality of this team. You’re just going to have to manage it and hope they can flip a switch when postseason comes around.