Jaren Jackson Jr: What can you tell me about the finals in 2011? Dwyane Wade: We got whooped on pretty good. We got whooped on. We were cocky now. We were like ‘Yeah, we’re a little cocky, we're a little cocky. Nobody can mess with us.' Like we were at that point. You know how you get sometimes, you get a little bit too much up here. I think Dallas, they saw that. They felt that and they punched us in the mouth. And when they punched us in the mouth, we couldn't get back up. And even though we went in and won game after we lost game two being up like 17 at home, we went in one game three. We still in the driver seat. We was wobbly though. You know what I mean? I just learned that you just got to stay here, bro. You got to stay even kill. You can't go with the roller coaster. You can't ebb and flow. You got to stay even kill through it all. And so didn't want to do it, but we needed that loss.
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