Dwyane Wade enters the Beijing Olympics with a chip on his shoulder and the confidence that he'll exit with a gold medal around his neck.

Heading into Team USA's exhibition game Thursday morning against Turkey, Wade said he is equipped with all of the intangibles he needs to make his second Olympic experience far more successful than his first.

Four years ago, Wade was a young member of a disappointing USA basketball team that emerged from the Athens Games with the bronze. This time around, the Miami Heat guard is a perennial all-star, an Olympic team veteran and a player scorned.

''I'm just out there playing angry more than anything,'' Wade said from Macau, China, during a conference call Wednesday morning. ``That hasn't [gone] away. I have a lot of reasons. I don't know how much I can say with words. Only way I can show it is with my play.''

Wade's play spoke volumes in last week's exhibition opener, when the U.S routed Canada 120-65 in Las Vegas. Playing his first game in four months, Wade made his first five shots, was 7 of 10 from the field and tied for the team lead with 20 points.

That performance included two emphatic dunks, with Wade intent on showing his explosive form had returned. He spent the past four months rehabilitating a left knee injury that forced him out of the Heat's lineup in March and sidelined him for the final 21 games of Miami's disastrous 15-67 season.

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