The Miami Heat and larger-than-life center Shaquille O'Neal are stuggling at 1-7.

The Heat's best player Dwyane Wade says the key to getting Shaq and the Heat back on track is for O'Neal to get back the eye of the tiger.

"Probably this year more so than any year I have been more vocal with Shaq, talking to him and trying to motivate him," Wade told reporters on Thursday. "But the main thing is Shaq has got to be self-motivated. He has got to be willing and ready to do it."

O'Neal's numbers are down and he has struggled with foul trouble as the Heat stumbled out of the gate. In the first half of Miami's loss to the previously winless Seattle SuperSonics, he played just four minutes due to foul trouble and scattered boos from the home crowd serenaded him to the bench. He finished with 10 points, three boards and three turnovers in 16 minutes in the loss.