Derrick Rose Leads Chicago Bulls In Big Win Over OKC Thunder

He also believes Rose is getting closer to game conditioning after missing nearly all of training camp after facial surgery. “It should be great for Derrick’s confidence”. Give it two or three years, and we’ll be seeing Portis play in the mid-season game.

Derrick Rose has gone from zero to hero overnight once again for the Chicago Bulls. “You couldn’t tell which way the game was going to go”. I couldn’t get my blood pressure up, so anyone that hasn’t gone through it, like you have to just sit in the house all day.

“I promise you that”, Butler said.

Streeter Lecka/GettyDerrick Rose hasn’t been able to consistently string together good games over the past year. When he first came into the league, he immediately caught the National Basketball Association by storm with his blinding speed and toughness, and to put the cherry on top, he did it all with a calm and likable demeanor that a few branded as boring but was well needed at a time when the league needed an image makeover.

That is why it could potentially make sense for Chicago to shop Rose during this season, before his trade value diminishes even further, or before he leaves through free agency. But Rose’s performance down the stretch helped offset Kevin Durant’s 33 points and lifted the Bulls after they got blown out at Charlotte two nights earlier. “I’m still getting my rhythm, and it’s slowly coming to me”.

All the kinks haven’t been worked out less than two weeks into the season, as Rose is still dealing with the aforementioned double vision while figuring out how to play within Fred Hoiberg’s offensive system. You just have to chill. But with my eye like this, I don’t want to affect the game in a way where I’m messing up the game. D-Rose successfully converted on a variety of shots Thursday night, including pull-ups and floaters, both of which he had mastered and utilized with efficiency during his 2011 MVP season. He reported that the franchise was unhappy the point guard made comments regarding his contract along with the numerous injuries that continue to pile up.

Jimmy Butler said, “We’ve always prided ourselves on defense; tonight we ain’t play no defense”. “I felt like we let each other down”. Moreover, the lack of coordination between Taj Gibson and Joakim Noah is clearly taking a toll on the Chicago Bulls. I don’t know if it’s going to be complete.

– More aggressiveness going to the basket. Unless they truly think they can add by subtracting Rose, they owe it to him and this team to try and make it work and make a run at the title. With Doug McDermott being the only starter on the floor, the Bulls took advantage of Durant and Westbrook being on the bench and stretched their lead to 10.