DanTown8587 wrote:DuckIII wrote:The Evidence wrote:The Chicago connection is too hard to ignore. We need to take care of our own, even after their usefulness is gone.
Why? Serious question. I don’t get it. Please explain. Where do you draw the line? My mom is a south sider. But I never lived in Chicago. Down state my whole life. If Rose had that same story would it be different for you?
What if he was from Buffalo? Or Hong Kong?
It’s pure coincidence. I don’t get it. It’s not rational. If Rose was was from Queens he’s be the most hated Bulls player of all time.
It’s such a ridiculous basis on which to form a distinction.
If I had to make a guess, there are a lot of posters who grew up in the same instances as Rose and see him as a sort of hero for getting out the extreme poverty and hopelessness from which he came. I mean, he was drafted with a 1.7% chance and then won the youngest MVP award in the history of the league. I'll bet that if you ask the Rose fans when they first heard about him, he was probably was no older than 12-14. That means these guys have been invested in a guy through his entire high school/AAU career, college, the Bulls, and beyond.
And it isn't Chicago specifically; it's south/west side Chicago. If Derrick was from the north side of the city, he'd still be "from Chicago" but you wouldn't see the same loyalty and admiration from his fans. And in this case, there are simply too many guys who can't "break up" with Rose no matter what.
And I don't really blame them for their admiration of Rose, it's always been an issue to me that the team somehow owes anything to Rose that upsets me.
This may be the case for many, but FWIW, I'm one of the biggest Rose fans on here, and I'm 10 years older than him, grew up in completely different circumstances in Wisconsin, never heard of him basically til the Bulls won the lottery and I started looking at prospects for the draft, have never lived in Chicago (though moved to the area from WI a few years ago), and I even am biased against small guards.