Once again, rumors have been started about the Chicago Bulls' Derrick Rose. First, it was a feud with Jimmy Butler based on zero factual basis. Now it's that the Bulls have started to move on from the point guard. Brian Windhorst joined ESPN Radio's "Russillo & Kanell," and said as much, stating that the Bulls and Rose may have a potential breakup coming in the near future, but that's simply an inaccurate thought and assumption.
Windhorst talked in depth about the situation that he believes the team and Rose are in, but didn't ultimately seem too confident in what he was saying.
"Here's how I feel about Derrick Rose: The breakup with the Bulls has begun," Windhorst said during the show. "I don't know how long it's going to last, I don't know when it's going to be complete, but you can sort of see it. The team and the franchise have moved on, to a little bit of a certain extent.
"... It's not Derrick Rose's fault that his knee got hurt, OK? But his attitude has been not terrific. The comments that he made about his contract in 2017, you want to talk about being tone deaf ..."
Phrases like "I don't know," "sort of" and "a little bit" stand out to me. And they stand out because, basically, Windhorst seems to be talking out of his ass. He didn't sound too confident about what he was talking about, and seemed to use those types of qualifies to protect himself if he ended up being dead wrong about the whole thing.
Also, no sources were cited. No facts were presented. The closest thing to a fact that Windhorst mentioned was the quotes about Rose being worried about his contract situation in 2017 from Training Camp. And you know what? Yeah, that was a little bothersome.
But you know something else? Rose actually is kind of tone deaf when it comes to things he says to the media.
He's a very honest guy who doesn't always think about what implications his quotes have, and how much they're going to be analyzed.
Sam Smith, a man who personally knows Rose well and covers the Bulls daily, said that Rose's comments shouldn't be anything of concern. He really does just not understand that him talking about those things in that arena at that time were simply going to be viewed negatively. It wasn't thought out. Smith also assured fans and analysts that Rose is still committed to basketball, to the Bulls, to Chicago, to the fans and to winning.
After all, if he wasn't, he wouldn't get that next big contract in 2017 because he didn't prove himself worthy of it.
To me, listening to Windhorst's thoughts on the matter, he was overanalyzing and making a prediction. It wasn't based on much. It's not inherently wrong, as it's an opinion, but it's also not to be taken at face value as the truth of the matter.
The biggest indicator that the Bulls are still 100 percent behind Derrick Rose is the situation we saw this summer.
When Rose was accused of rape by an ex-girlfriend, the team was without doubt entirely supportive and behind Rose. If they were looking for fault and a way out, wouldn't that have been a good time to, maybe, voice a little displeasure?
Not once did it seem like the Bulls weren't standing by Rose fully, and there's no reason to think they aren't now.
In fact, the only two ways that I see Rose in a different uniform after 2017 is if he either gets a major injury again, and they finally decide to cut their losses, or the team somehow completely falls apart and they decide to just redo the whole roster.
That's it.
Windhorst's comments were based on nothing, and nobody should really expect Rose elsewhere anytime soon, barring some crazy turn of events.
© 2024 Classicalite All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.
