Ben wrote:captvict wrote:Knick fan here. I can't believe a high percentage of members here bashing this kid. I have been perusing this board for years.
I remember with the first injury when they carried him off the court you were following his rehab on a day to day basis counting the days to his return with hopeful enthusiasm
I've admired the kid since day one now it seems like you threw him out with the dishwater
I don't understand this post. Rather than following this board for years, it seems as if you read it back in 2011-12 and then came back recently. Sure, all of us were following Rose's rehab on a day to day basis back in 2012, counting the days to his return with hopeful enthusiasm. And counting. And counting. And the enthusiasm started to wane. Still counting. Waning some more. Still counting down the entire 2012-13 season, past the time when any and all experts had forecast his return, far past the time when the team itself had projected him back... still no Derrick. The entire 2012-13 season, lost.
But hey, there's always 2013-14, right? We wait during the 2013 summer, waiting for Derrick to rehab and play at a high level, and some reports suggest that he's doing OK. His shot looked flat to me in gym workouts, but many of us maintained hopeful enthusiasm. 10 games into the 2013 season... knee injury yet again. Season shot. Maybe another player would have come back sooner, but Derrick tells us that he's thinking about his ability to walk at his son's graduation. (That actual quote came the next year, in November of 2014, although in hindsight it seems as if the same mentality held the year before.) He sits it all out, pocketing $17.6M along the way.
2014-15: Derrick's back. His efficiency isn't, as he can't crack 50% True Shooting. But we Derrick fans still love him, and wish him the best every day. When you love a player, you love a player. In late February, though, he goes down yet again. Misses 6 weeks. Come back too late, with too little, to help us salvage the playoffs against a vulnerable Cleveland team. Personally, I still love the guy, and he shows me some of what he used to have in a few vintage performances. But it's not enough.
2015-16: Are you kidding me? A preseason preorbital bone fracture? More time missed? Oh well. Derrick still plays most of the season. Problem is, his performance is now mediocre. He starts off just terribly, and although he starts cooking later in the year, he's inconsistent-- except insofar as he logs (for the 3rd straight season) a sub-50% True Shooting.
3.5 great seasons. 1 entirely missed season. Then 3 mediocre seasons (OK, one sub-mediocre season thrown into that mix.) And you think that we threw Derrick Rose out with the bathwater? A guy who last shot > 50% for True Shooting more than FOUR seasons ago, all while making $60M over that period? And we simply threw him out?
I loved Derrick Rose, and part of me will always love him b/c I'm a sentimental guy, but please do get out of here with that turned-on-him schtick. If he plays like an all-star for the Knicks, good for Derrick and good for you. Regardless, if you sign him to a big, long-term contract after that, shame on you.
Cheers.
