NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: PISTONS v HEAT

May 28, 2005

Dwyane Wade

DWYANE WADE: It's a very important game. I won't say it's the most important game of the season, but it's the most important game that we've got coming up.

DWYANE WADE: I mean, going down there, we've got to play better than we played at home. Everybody is just coming in with confidence, be attackers. Whatever they throw at us, we've going to be able to withstand that and cover everything, so we've got to be very smart on the road.

DWYANE WADE: Not really. We're not really thinking like that. We're very confident that we can go up there and win, so we're just thinking that coming into Game 3, do everything we can to win.

DWYANE WADE: Always looking forward to a challenge. If that's something they do, then I'll look for help from my teammates, and I'm not worried about it at all.

DWYANE WADE: I have no clue. I can't even think -- I don't worry myself of what they're going to change. I've just got to go out there and play my game and whatever they throw at me, then make adjustments.

DWYANE WADE: Like I said, I don't think it makes a big difference to an away team, you're just so focused on the game. I think it just helps them more, just like when we're at home it helps us more and because of the energy that the crowd brings, they set out almost every game. So the energy is going to be there for them, and we've got to be able to withstand that and make our other energy.

DWYANE WADE: No question. You don't want them to get going early with the crowd behind them with the confidence that they have at home, so we've got to try to come out early and jump on them.

DWYANE WADE: We're supposed to win at home, we're supposed to go .500 on the road. That's what we thought going in, that's what we wanted to do, and I think we did it. We accomplished our goals for the regular season.

DWYANE WADE: I mean, we just take it one game at a time. You're not really worrying about where you're playing, you're just worrying about the game in itself. We just go out there and play our game and not worry whether we're home or away.

DWYANE WADE: It wasn't easy games at all. We went into double overtime in a couple. Just because we won, people said it was easy. They were tough games. I think this team is battle tested on the road, but we're going into a hostile environment with a team that's very good, so we've got to go in there and take care of business, do our job.