Derrick Rose Speaks On Being Soft About Playing

[Beta]

Hmmm no sympathy out here huh? Lol I was lying anyways you bitch Ass nigga you beg for my attention everyday.

If that ain't a sign of seeing something in me you never saw in your pops Idk what is.

Lmao.

Yall niggas are crazy

This nigga like 29 but seeks my attention like I'm his role model. I feel sorry that I can't be there for him almost

 

[Chi-Town Bully]

Quit lying you bitch ass nigga, it's clear that you threw shots at me first in this thread so who's trying to get someone's attention. This nigga always crying because dudes shit on him everyday but start tough posting when he goes back and forth with females.

 

[Beta]

My nigga you don't be in every thread salivating while you mention me you homo? Stop it B

 

[Chi-Town Bully]

I can't take this shit all year, every fall on the court every fan in Chicago heart stops. Just let this dude be playoff ready and I'm good

 

[Chi-Town Bully]

My nigga you don't be in every thread salivating while you mention me you homo? Stop it B

Considering all the fag shit you've posted over the years it would appear you're the homo. Chill out nigga and quit taking this shit to heart.

 

[Jdilla26]

IMO I know what he was trying to say but he doesnt know how to articulate it........He needs a real PR person professional handling his comments...I was upset about his comments at 1st until actually reading the whole interview...then you got to realize you cant really dissect a DRose comment Im not saying he dumb Im just saying

 

[RiGGA]

Nah that niggas legitimately stupid bless his heart

 

[Beta]

Lol

 

[ineedpussy]

after last nights game i just co sign my post even more. that nigga a bitch for real. bet he got a pussy and he was the one that birthed his son not his chick

 

[BoogaSuga]

Noah to reporters after the game...

“Every time something happens to him, people act like it’s the end of the world. And that’s f—ing so lame to me. Relax. Like, OK, he’s coming back from two crazy surgeries. Obviously we’re being conservative with him, and when things aren’t going right, he’s got to listen to his body more than anybody. So everybody needs to chill the f— out. I mean, I’m sorry for cursing, but I’m really passionate. I don’t like to see him down. And he doesn’t say that he’s down, but I don’t like it when, like, people portray him and judge him. ‘Cause it’s not fair to him. It’s not.”

 

[Beta]

Noah to reporters after the game...

“Every time something happens to him, people act like it’s the end of the world. And that’s f—ing so lame to me. Relax. Like, OK, he’s coming back from two crazy surgeries. Obviously we’re being conservative with him, and when things aren’t going right, he’s got to listen to his body more than anybody. So everybody needs to chill the f— out. I mean, I’m sorry for cursing, but I’m really passionate. I don’t like to see him down. And he doesn’t say that he’s down, but I don’t like it when, like, people portray him and judge him. ‘Cause it’s not fair to him. It’s not.”

Spoken like the true leader of the team

 

[StoneColdMikey]

That's exactly how I feel too. And plus we playing good ball too . We do not need him right now

 

[MeekMonizzLLLLLLe14]

Noah to reporters after the game...

“Every time something happens to him, people act like it’s the end of the world. And that’s f—ing so lame to me. Relax. Like, OK, he’s coming back from two crazy surgeries. Obviously we’re being conservative with him, and when things aren’t going right, he’s got to listen to his body more than anybody. So everybody needs to chill the f— out. I mean, I’m sorry for cursing, but I’m really passionate. I don’t like to see him down. And he doesn’t say that he’s down, but I don’t like it when, like, people portray him and judge him. ‘Cause it’s not fair to him. It’s not.”

Spoken like the true leader of the team

People are more outraged at what his priorities are. Even Barkley was critical of him. Yes he's been unlucky injury wise but he's more worried about future business meetings than his current career. He needs a pr firm or publicist cause clearly his brothers comments and his aren't helping his cause.

 

[BoogaSuga]

I wasnt outraged. He said he dont wanna be crippled when he retires.

Watch him play you see he gives it his all on the court.

These guys get reporters in their face after each game and at practices. These same questions get old.

Media took his answer and turned it into something when it was nothing.

Any bulls fan can tell you he aint the best at interviews or media to begin with too

 

[Swiffness!]

nah, i'm with Stephen A, why was he talkin like he's a football player or boxer that's really at risk of being crippled, nigga stfu

Bill Walton had the WOAT ankles (they eventually fused them to his week just so he could walk) and he goes to his kids graduations just fine

Rose was talkin like he a war veteran on some Hurt Locker shit lol

 

[cobbland]

Rose ripped for speaking his mind

Updated: November 14, 2014, 4:24 PM ET

By Scoop Jackson | ESPN.com

For Derrick Rose, it seems as if being honest isn't a virtue that he should honor. Next time he should just lie.

If I'm Derrick Rose right now, I'm looking at how Steve Nash's career is ending and what he has to go through to try to walk and have a normal post-NBA life. I'd look at how the game has taken a toll on another former MVP's body.

Nash posted this on Facebook: "I have a ton of miles on my back. Three bulging disks (a tear in one), stenosis of the nerve route and spondylolisthesis. I suffer from sciatica and after games I often can't sit in the car on the drive home, which has made for some interesting rides. Most nights I'm bothered by severe cramping in both calves while I sleep, a result of the same damn nerve routes, and the list goes on somewhat comically. That's what you deserve for playing over 1,300 NBA games. By no means do I tell you this for sympathy -- especially since I see these ailments as badges of honor -- but maybe I can bring some clarity."

He's 40; Rose is 27. It's funny how no one looking at Nash seems to think that other ballplayers won't see this and start to think about their own careers and mortality, especially someone like Rose who's been dealing with 11 different injuries in the past 30 months.

There are more: Kerry Wood. Mark Prior. Stephen Strasburg. Michael Redd. Greg Oden. Tracy McGrady. Gale Sayers. Ken Griffey Jr. (And I won't even bring someone like Grant Hill into the conversation.)

None of them had to endure over the course of their careers what Rose has had to in just the first six seasons of his. None reached his highs as soon, none fell his fall as fast. None was called stupid by the media, none incited this level of controversy.

And therein lies (pun strongly intended) the true problem with the media when we publicly belittle a guy for giving an honest answer but at the same time claim our biggest issue with athletes, coaches and team execs (we expect it from politicians, preachers and policemen) is when they don't give us honest answers.

Rose's apocalyptic "it's not about this year" comments that caused one Chicago columnist to say that "it's not just that [Rose's] statement is idiotic, it's that he apparently believes it. It's galling and stupid, and Rose doesn't seem smart enough to understand why."

But no. We want our athletes to think what we think and feel how we feel -- about them.

Derrick Rose was just being honest in how he's thinking and what's going through his mind trying to get back to 100 percent. When did honesty and big-picture thinking become an issue in anyone's career, especially after going through what Rose has gone through the past three years? So we can't be mad if after this he decides to never give an honest, forthright response to any question or any interview again. Why should he?

At some point the "punishment should equal the crime" rule has be called into play. The backlash toward Rose on this has been both berating and a bastardization of his character. Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith basically questioned his manhood, with Bayless saying "it's becoming clear that Derrick Rose is very, very gifted at something he really doesn't want to do: And that's play basketball at the highest level, the NBA level" on "First Take." Other local columnists such as Dan Bernstein questioned Rose's -- and a family member's -- educational pedigree and expressed concern that Rose is "missing the importance of the present." Charles Barkley called Rose's comments "flat-out stupid." Random people on the streets just going full-in on Rose.

All because we can't handle the truth when it's not what we want to hear.

When asked did he understand why he caught so much hell for his comments, Rose responded: "No. No. But I could care less." Followed by: "As far as everything that comes along with my story, missing two years, of course [controversy] is going to happen. I'm not worried about it as long as I'm being myself." And with trying to "be himself" comes honesty. The one thing we keep saying that we want from others. But obviously the one thing we can't take if it's not packaged like it came from Alexander McQueen.

Honesty is not always pretty; honestly is not always perfect. But honesty should, to some degree, when we request it, be respected.

Here's proof to how our hypocrisy reigns supreme and how we only want our truths digestible for infants who haven't grown teeth: A year and a half ago when Derrick Rose said he was still the best player in the NBA, the media and public had a very similar if not the exact same national response. We lost our collective minds, called him names, called him out of his mind, the same pattern that is being repeated now.

People had a hard time accepting his truth. But again, like now, the brotha was just being honest. And again, we couldn't deal with or respect it. It didn't fit "our" niche thinking of what someone is supposed to say. About themselves.

Which leaves open the question of who's the stupid, disappointing, selfish, uneducated and coddled one here: Derrick Rose or us?
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11875155/criticize-derrick-rose-honesty

 

[S.jR.]

Rose ripped for speaking his mind

Updated: November 14, 2014, 4:24 PM ET

By Scoop Jackson | ESPN.com

For Derrick Rose, it seems as if being honest isn't a virtue that he should honor. Next time he should just lie.

If I'm Derrick Rose right now, I'm looking at how Steve Nash's career is ending and what he has to go through to try to walk and have a normal post-NBA life. I'd look at how the game has taken a toll on another former MVP's body.

Nash posted this on Facebook: "I have a ton of miles on my back. Three bulging disks (a tear in one), stenosis of the nerve route and spondylolisthesis. I suffer from sciatica and after games I often can't sit in the car on the drive home, which has made for some interesting rides. Most nights I'm bothered by severe cramping in both calves while I sleep, a result of the same damn nerve routes, and the list goes on somewhat comically. That's what you deserve for playing over 1,300 NBA games. By no means do I tell you this for sympathy -- especially since I see these ailments as badges of honor -- but maybe I can bring some clarity."

He's 40; Rose is 27. It's funny how no one looking at Nash seems to think that other ballplayers won't see this and start to think about their own careers and mortality, especially someone like Rose who's been dealing with 11 different injuries in the past 30 months.

There are more: Kerry Wood. Mark Prior. Stephen Strasburg. Michael Redd. Greg Oden. Tracy McGrady. Gale Sayers. Ken Griffey Jr. (And I won't even bring someone like Grant Hill into the conversation.)

None of them had to endure over the course of their careers what Rose has had to in just the first six seasons of his. None reached his highs as soon, none fell his fall as fast. None was called stupid by the media, none incited this level of controversy.

And therein lies (pun strongly intended) the true problem with the media when we publicly belittle a guy for giving an honest answer but at the same time claim our biggest issue with athletes, coaches and team execs (we expect it from politicians, preachers and policemen) is when they don't give us honest answers.

Rose's apocalyptic "it's not about this year" comments that caused one Chicago columnist to say that "it's not just that [Rose's] statement is idiotic, it's that he apparently believes it. It's galling and stupid, and Rose doesn't seem smart enough to understand why."

But no. We want our athletes to think what we think and feel how we feel -- about them.

Derrick Rose was just being honest in how he's thinking and what's going through his mind trying to get back to 100 percent. When did honesty and big-picture thinking become an issue in anyone's career, especially after going through what Rose has gone through the past three years? So we can't be mad if after this he decides to never give an honest, forthright response to any question or any interview again. Why should he?

At some point the "punishment should equal the crime" rule has be called into play. The backlash toward Rose on this has been both berating and a bastardization of his character. Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith basically questioned his manhood, with Bayless saying "it's becoming clear that Derrick Rose is very, very gifted at something he really doesn't want to do: And that's play basketball at the highest level, the NBA level" on "First Take." Other local columnists such as Dan Bernstein questioned Rose's -- and a family member's -- educational pedigree and expressed concern that Rose is "missing the importance of the present." Charles Barkley called Rose's comments "flat-out stupid." Random people on the streets just going full-in on Rose.

All because we can't handle the truth when it's not what we want to hear.

When asked did he understand why he caught so much hell for his comments, Rose responded: "No. No. But I could care less." Followed by: "As far as everything that comes along with my story, missing two years, of course [controversy] is going to happen. I'm not worried about it as long as I'm being myself." And with trying to "be himself" comes honesty. The one thing we keep saying that we want from others. But obviously the one thing we can't take if it's not packaged like it came from Alexander McQueen.

Honesty is not always pretty; honestly is not always perfect. But honesty should, to some degree, when we request it, be respected.

Here's proof to how our hypocrisy reigns supreme and how we only want our truths digestible for infants who haven't grown teeth: A year and a half ago when Derrick Rose said he was still the best player in the NBA, the media and public had a very similar if not the exact same national response. We lost our collective minds, called him names, called him out of his mind, the same pattern that is being repeated now.

People had a hard time accepting his truth. But again, like now, the brotha was just being honest. And again, we couldn't deal with or respect it. It didn't fit "our" niche thinking of what someone is supposed to say. About themselves.

Which leaves open the question of who's the stupid, disappointing, selfish, uneducated and coddled one here: Derrick Rose or us?
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11875155/criticize-derrick-rose-honesty

 

[Tommy bilfiger]

That scoop jackson article is journalistic dickridin he's from chicago nobody in this city can be objective when it comes to rose.For roses sake I hope he can stay healthy and be an impact player he's had flashes but I don't have confidence in dude he stays hurt he's hurt himself in 3 of the 4 games he's played this year.

 

[R.D.]

like CB said, he's making 20 mil a year, nobody feels sympathy for him

If this was football, he'd have more of a leg to stand on

 

[KNiGHTS]

Rose ripped for speaking his mind

Updated: November 14, 2014, 4:24 PM ET

By Scoop Jackson | ESPN.com
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11875155/criticize-derrick-rose-honesty

To avoid the titanic term paper, I agree with dude's assessment but Nash's issue isn't just basketball. Wasn't he playing semi-pro soccer at the same time during his run with D'Antoni's run-happy offense?