Week 12, division game, and Wade walks in having dropped three straight to Riley — which is a weird sentence to type, because Wade is exactly the kind of manager who doesn't lose three straight to *anyone*. The ledger between these two is tighter than it looks on paper: that 2021 meeting came down to 1.58 points, the kind of margin that haunts a guy through an offseason. Riley's sitting on the streak. Wade's sitting on the motivation. You've seen this movie before — you just don't know which ending you're getting.