Rocks and Blows wrote:
Rose is a 19 year old on the worst team of his life surrounded by clowns, from the front office to the goofs next to him on the bench. Ya'll sound like Rush Limabugh, wanting him to fail, cut him some slack. Trade everybody but Rose and your 2010 first pick for Bosh or Jefferson and you'll see a different player.
He's 20, but yeah. I'm sure the question was along the lines of "you've only lost a handful of games in your entire BB career; how are you handling the losses?" How do you really answer that question? It's flat-out meatball bullshit to claim that his answer somehow shows he doesn't care. This is a 20 year old rookie on a team that is very bad; he's already arguably the team's best player. He has to take his lumps, and he's not so stupid as to not know it.
Is anyone going to try to claim that, were he on a good team, he'd be complacent because he doesn't have that drive to win? Come on. His record tells his story. His play shows that he's, by any standard, a standout rookie in the NBA. Fuck, I'm cynical, but the level of cynicism I've encountered on this subject simply bewilders me. This kid is practically a lock to be a star in the NBA; enjoy seeing his early development, even though the team's play, and his interviews, may be brutal.
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