CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Name this Cavaliers player.

Since Oct. 24, he's averaging 10.6 points and shooting .469.

He's second on the team with 4.3 assists per game against just 1.1 turnovers. His offensive and defensive ratings are third best on the team (115.1 and 108.7), measuring points scored or allowed per 100 possessions.

And in a 124-119 win over the Milwaukee Bucks Tuesday night, he blocked a dunk attempt by NBA leading scorer Giannis Antetokounmpo in the fourth quarter of a tight game.

Did you guess Dwyane Wade? If so, then perhaps you already know that Wade is working out quite well on the Cavs' bench, and the bench is working for him. These are his numbers since he was moved, by request, out of the starting lineup following some personal struggles in Cleveland's first three games.

"You get in better condition," said Wade, 35, a 12-time All-Star in his first year with the Cavs. "You understand where your shots are coming from and things like that. I'm a rhythm player, so I got to play in rhythm. Right now, some nights is different than others, but the last two games, it's been cool being able to finish games and being able to play 20-plus minutes and have an opportunity to do a lot of things on the court.

"I just want to help the team in any way that I can when I'm on the floor and I was able to do that tonight in a different way than I did in the game where I scored more but we lost. It's all about getting the win."

Wade's season averages of 9.1 points, 3.0 rebounds, and 8.9 shots are all career lows for the future Hall of Fame guard, but that's to be expected given that this is really the first time he's come off the bench.

Coach Tyronn Lue told Wade when he signed with the Cavs Sept. 27 that his best fit here would be as a reserve, and he's been proven correct so far.

Wade was coming off a 25-point game in Sunday's loss to Atlanta. He played 32 minutes in that game and finished with 11 rebounds and six assists, playing the entire fourth quarter in which the Cavs nearly overcame a 16-point deficit.

Wade played the whole fourth quarter again Tuesday against Milwaukee. He scored just two of his 10 points in the final frame, but he ran the offense and blocked the 6-11 Antetokounmpo with 7:08 left and the Cavs up seven. It was Wade's ninth block already this season.

"Whenever you do that you just go up and hope you get lucky sometimes because it can go the other way," Wade said. "I definitely was in the right place and that was behind him. I swung hard, wrist hurting a little bit from it and I got lucky. It was one of those ones where if I miss they're going to the monitors and they're going to look at it. Just trying to make a play on the ball and I got lucky, made a play on the ball."

Wade's extended playing time lately has come at the expense of Derrick Rose, who's been turnover prone and not on the court at closing time. But, last Friday, Wade played just 14 minutes and scored two points in a win over Washington -- he'd never had a game like that before in his 15 seasons.

So it hasn't all been roses. He ruffled some feathers inside the organization by pointedly calling out the starters for struggling following the Atlanta loss, and his insistence on starting at the beginning of the year made life more difficult on Lue, who had to bench three-year starter J.R. Smith for Wade.

When Isaiah Thomas returns from his right hip injury and joins the starting lineup, Rose will go to the bench and Lue will have two ball handlers on his second unit. Kyle Korver and Jeff Green have played so well with Wade over the last eight games -- their offensive and defensive ratings are the only ones higher than Wade's in that stretch -- that it's hard to see Lue break them up.

Thomas, however, is more of a shooter than Rose, so, if Lue chose he could move Wade to the starting lineup and play Smith alongside Rose.

In the meantime, the Cavs need wins. They play the Houston Rockets Thursday at the start of a four-game road trip, and haven't won consecutive games since the first two of the season.

Wade was a starter then, you might remember.

"In my experience, what I've learned is that you're going to go through different things throughout the year," Wade said. "This was the first one. The first 10 or 11 games we went through something. For our fans that come and support us, we failed them by not winning enough games at home and not giving them enough to cheer about.

"But now we move on from this phase hopefully and we move into another one. Then we will have another something and we will have to figure out as a team how to get over that. But at the end of the day we're all getting over it together. We are all out there together."