Yeah, about that. Jay Cutler was polarizing for a while, but even his most vociferous supporters eventually had their eyes opened. Same with Mitch Trubisky. The Bulls had done him no favors in when they let the world know he had been medically cleared to play after his first major knee surgery. From there, it was open season on the player who, two years earlier, had been the youngest player in NBA history 22 to win the MVP award. We found out that lots of tough-guy Bulls fans, in a similar situation, would have laced them up, if not for the fact that they had a pie-chart presentation to give or a beer delivery to make.
And if not for the fact that they had no discernible athletic ability. After all those years and all those surgeries, Rose is still standing tall. Good for him. Good for most of us, too. Know about breaking news as it happens. Only four times has he played more than 27 minutes a game, and never more than Rose would love to play more, Pistons coach Dwane Casey would love to play him more, but everyone is sticking to a minutes limit set preseason to keep Rose healthy and fresh.
Rod Beard has a great story about it in The Detroit News. Injuries are what derailed Rose's career when he was in Chicago, as he missed the season with an ACL tear, then suffered a torn right meniscus 10 games into the season. However, since then Rose hasn't dealt with any significant injuries that would further shorten his playing career.
He's not putting up MVP numbers anymore, but he's been amongst the most productive bench player in the league over the past few seasons. So far this season with New York, he's putting up That last stat will certainly regress as the year carries on, but after not being a serious threat from deep early in his career, Rose has clearly worked on his 3-point shooting to make an impact in that way as well. There's still plenty of years before he can get into Brady territory in terms of the longevity of his career, but there's no reason to think he can't do it based on the way he's played in the last few years.
By Jasmyn Wimbish. Rose started taking full contact in practice on Jan. Those are the two major checkpoints in Rose's recovery timeline, and the two that are brought up most often, but there's been no shortage of hysteria surrounding the situation in the time since. The day before the Bulls would end the Miami Heat's historic game winning streak, rapper Waka Flocka tweeted that Rose was set to return.
Shockingly, it never happened. Where was Rose at during all of this? He was just trying to clear his mental hurdle.
On March 21, when asked about when he might be ready to return, Rose said, "Nobody knows but God. There are plenty of people in Chicago who are not giving Rose the benefit of the doubt.
They're calling him a wuss, a wimp, saying that he's soft. What is Derrick waiting for? Of course, this is a dangerous game to be playing. Rose was raised by a single mother in one of the roughest neighborhoods in the country -- you're really going to call that guy soft? He built up four years worth of goodwill before this ordeal -- does that count for nothing?
So many of the injuries that plagued Rose during the season happened because he rushed back and his body was overcompensating. He had a bad back, turf toe, a stiff neck Is it really such a bad thing that he's taking his time? But then you see Joakim Noah gutting it out in the fourth quarter of Game 2 to help key a Bulls victory when he can barely walk, and you wonder how Rose can watch all of this.
He's apparently been dominating practices for months. He puts on dunking exhibitions before seemingly every game, now throwing it down off his left foot without a problem. The team is still very much open to the idea of his return. When asked about Rose after Game 2 , Luol Deng told reporters, "If Derrick comes in this locker room and says he wants to play tomorrow, his uniform is ready.
There's more at play here, like Thibodeau's own dubious history of rushing players back from injury. This is same coach that cleared Omer Asik to return to a playoff game when he had a broken leg. This was the same coach who was drawing tons of criticism for burning out players like Noah just two days ago. It's not about who's "right" and who is "wrong," but it isn't hard to make an argument that Rose is wrong. When the doctors told him to run, he ran. When the doctors told him to practice, he practiced.
Now the doctors have been telling him to play for almost two months, and Rose still won't do it.
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