The only problem is that Rose isn't producing like an MVP should. There are several better candidates to this point who are producing like MVPs on teams that are just as good as the one Rose is on. If you asked any sane person prior to this season who would win the Eastern Conference, without hesitation their answer would be the Miami Heat.
There was a smorgasbord of All-Star free agents signing everywhere but Chicago during the only summer where acquiring Carlos Boozer goes unnoticed. The Bulls probably weren't even projected to be second or third on your list.
After all, they were a combined in two seasons prior. A surge from eighth to first in the conference in a year's time is an epic leap that nobody expected. For some reason, it helps Rose's MVP chances that our expectations were so low and it hurts a guy like LeBron James , who's able to play at an MVP level perennially, that our expectations were so high. Just because we're used to it doesn't mean we need to start looking elsewhere for a new best player.
Rose was a cute flavor of the month, but realistically, he's got a long way to go. Enjoy our content? Join our newsletter to get the latest in sports news delivered straight to your inbox! Your sports.
As fans, we're used to the amorphous "I like that guy". It's not the worship reserved for franchise saviors, nor is it the puppy love doled out to fan favorites. Its opposite, however—"I don't like that guy"--almost always has a clear root cause.
Psychoanalysis was invented to help us understand why we're fucked up, but no one wants to hear a rational explanation for why he's fallen in love. Ben Roethlisberger is reviled because he's a scumbag and possible sex offender; Derrick Rose has done nothing off the court to raise moral hackles. In some lights, though, that makes him a sympathetic figure, put in an impossible position by the NBA's counterproductive age limit.
In , a photograph surfaced of Rose flashing gang signs and smiling something he almost never does -- his default expression is at once serious and vacant. He apologized, calling it "a joke". I certainly didn't hold it against Rose. I was more interested in what this—much like the red wardrobe that Stephen Jackson once wore and unrepentantly explained to ESPN—might tell us about the way gangs, and gang culture, work.
The most high-minded basketball nerd could raise plenty of questions about Rose's game from a purely functional perspective. These were a lot more prevalent when Rose first entered the league, with an outside shot that charitably could be called "inconsistent".
Three years in, he's fid that, and become a three-point threat. There's still some dispute over whether Rose counts as a point guard in the same way the Hornets' Chris Paul manipulates the defense like a logic puzzle, or the way the Celtics' Rajon Rondo creates ruptures and exploits inconsistencies.
Rose gets plenty of assists, but he always seems to look for his shot first; when he gives the ball up, especially if it's as any part of set play, he comes off as rote, resigned. When he kicks the ball out to an open man, it's in the moment, a safety valve rather than a systemic ploy.
I'm not the kind of fan who's bothered by this in principle. The same criticisms could be applied to the Thunder's Russell Westbrook -- Rose's workout buddy in the off-season -- but with Westbrook, each possession is an adventure. A great white shark has been hanging out near shore at a popular California surfing destination known for shark attacks. Maryland has …. Please enter an email address. Something went wrong. Derrick Rose was fine with Trae Young's trash talk to Knicks fans: 'If you want to talk [expletive], talk [expletive]'.
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