air gordon wrote:Looks like though Hoiberg and Andrew are the same page- start Pau and Niko.
According to K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune, Derrick Rose was so proud of Jimmy Butler’s 2014-15 season – a first time All-Star and the recipient of the NBA’s Most Improved Player award – that Derrick Rose bought Jimmy a gift before training camp started.
This is the Derrick Rose that many in the media have said is “jealous” of Butler’s newly earned status on the team. The Derrick Rose who apparently can’t coexist with a star like Butler, even though the two averaged 20.0 points per game, each, in last year’s playoffs.
Rose bought Butler a brand new watch, one which Johnson described as having “a price tag that college-tuition-paying parents would recognize”, aka a very expensive watch.
The Chicago Bulls will open a new era under coach Fred Hoiberg with Derrick Rose in the lineup.
The former MVP point guard is set to start without any minute restrictions when the Bulls meet LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in Tuesday's opener.
Derrick Rose assists per game: 5.5
Derrick Rose points per game: 18
Jimmy Butler points per game: 18
Joakim Noah points per game: 8.5
Nikola Mirotic points per game: 14.5
Pau Gasol points per game: 17
Joakim Noah rebounds per game: 9.5
Pau Gasol rebounds per game: 10
But here we are, still in the era of “So-and-so will return before Derrick Rose” and “He’ll be out for the rest of the season” after any minor incident. Never to be forgotten is the unforgivable sin of Rose not returning, with zero game experience in twelve months, having never having started next to Jimmy Butler, in the 2013 playoffs. It’s the talking point that always remains.
So imagine my surprise when, after Rose announced he would (and subsequently did) play in the Bulls final preseason game of 2015, there were questions as to whether he really should. The same people who had spent the last two and a half years lambasting Rose for not returning soon enough from his ACL tear, because he was “medically cleared”, were all of a sudden cautious in his return to the court.
Rose chooses to speak openly, but is constantly criticized for it, and told that he should simply say what everyone wants to hear. Yet, all that is ever talked about in relation to athletes are their robotic answers and that, “they should be more honest”. Clearly they should be honest, only if what they have to say is what talking heads want to hear.
mp3 wrote:14 hours in work done!
A few beers, a well deserved sit down League Pass at the ready to watch LeBron get his ass handed to him!
Boom!
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