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The reason he's not scoring 30 a night: Team.

Regular TrueHoop readers know one of my favorite topics is the idea that while it takes all kinds of stereotypically macho things like toughness and guts to win basketball games, on most NBA teams what's needed is almost the opposite of that.

Excelling at macho stuff is the cost of admission to the NBA. Every team has a lot of it.

But good teams stick those macho pieces together into a cohesive whole, I theorize, with the glue of selflessness. It's the opposite of what many believe works in sports. But it's essential nonetheless.

And that's the theme of Tzvi Twersky's cover story about Dwyane Wade in the current SLAM. Wade says the macho stuff, like that he could still score 30 a night if he thought it would help. But, machismo being what it is, he leaves it to others like his manager Lisa Joseph and Heat assistant coach Dave Fizdale to get into the nitty gritty of why his personal statistics are down (and, for instance, he was only eighth in the most recent #NBARank) even while team success is up. From a section of the article that's only in the print version: