Friday, February 22nd, 2013 at 9:10 am  |  125 responses

Derrick Rose Distances Himself from Brother’s Criticism of the Bulls


by Marcel Mutoni / @ marcel_mutoni

As Derrick Rose continues to work his way back from knee surgery, his brother Reggie is steaming mad at the Chicago Bulls for not putting enough pieces around their superstar to contend for an NBA championship.

According to Derrick’s older sibling, the Bulls (who didn’t make a move at the trade deadline) are counting on their point guard to return this season purely for financial reasons.

Per ESPN:

“What have you pieced together? Have you made any moves? Have you made any trades to get better? You know all roads to the championship lead through Miami,” Reggie Rose said. “What pieces have you put together for the physical playoffs? Joakim Noah is a great player. Luol Deng is a great player. But you need more than that. You have to put together pieces to your main piece. The players can only do so much. It’s up to the organization to make them better.”

“It’s frustrating to see my brother play his heart and soul out for the team and them not put anything around him,” Reggie Rose said. [...] “Everyone is expecting Derrick to come back,” Reggie Rose said. “If Derrick comes back, they’re going to sell more tickets. Is the reason for Derrick to come back to win a championship or make money? Right now, I don’t believe a championship. Everything in the NBA is financial.”

Everyone in Chicago is understandably frustrated. There’s no telling when Derrick Rose will return, and even if he comes back this season and is healthy, the Bulls don’t appear to be legitimate title contenders. Reggie Rose’s comments will only add fuel to the fire.

Derrick Rose quickly and wisely released a statement through the Bulls in an attempt to diffuse the situation: “I have always felt that the Bulls organization’s goals have been the same as mine and that is to bring another championship to this city.”

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  • danpowers

    advanced stats say a little more. he had the ball in his hands most of the time in the bulls offense and 8 players had a better per that season of whom 3 deserved it more as i said – durant, howard, james. just because it doesnt make sense to you doesnt mean it doesnt make sense at all. he is a good player but dont underestimate how good his team let him look, too.

  • danpowers

    not easily and not all the time. but yes, when it mattered the most he shut him down.

  • danpowers

    in an easter conference weaker than the one we have today. the 52 wins and howards impact on their wins were legit reasons to hand him the tropy too his per and win shares were also higher than rose’s. id rather make a case for durant who also emerged to become a mvp worthy player. change thunder n bulls conferences that year and youd get the same standings if not a better thunder record in a weaker eastern conference, you know that.

    hypothetic questions are indeed important, otherwise teammates wouldnt play a role in the selection and we would prolly have a system in that the best player would win the trophy each year.

    sorry man, we could do that all night long, your point of view doesnt convince me, as mine wont convince you. lets just leave it

  • dude

    On damn near any team with a true superstar, the gap will be huge between the star amd the next best player. The fact remains that Lebron did what Rose is doing with a lot less.

  • tru

    That’s because the Rose/Bulls fans are trying to make this kid out to be more than what he is, which was already an amazing player. No, he can’t just be amazing. He has to be comparable to Lebron, the best defensive pg in the league, as well as the best athlete and decision maker. Anything you say that is short of all those things, and you are the problem. Same with kobe fans. I never see Durant fans go nuts over valid criticism of him, and lets face it Durant, not Rose, is the leagues best and most important young star.

  • z

    According to whom? You? Because according to Derrick Rose, Lebron’s size and speed bothered him. But we’ll take your word over Rose, even though he himself credited Lebron with playing lock down defense. I really like DRose, but reading the comments on this site from his fans can be annoying. Lebron shut him down. Rose admitted it. He isn’t the first or the last to carry the load for his team. Lebron had been doing it for years before Rose even entered the league, so give credit where credit is due, to lebron’s defense.

  • KevinJohnsonFan

    His team let him look good by not being able to score on their own without him? Right, because that makes a lot of sense. MVP awards don’t go to guys on teams that are 4th in the Conference.

  • KevinJohnsonFan

    1st seeds are 1st seeds regardless of how strong or weak the conference is. You’re crazy if you think that the award should have gone to Howard on a 4th seed team because of your little PER stat. I can Google that too. That’s all you have to stand on. Meanwhile, others actually watched the games. Not just 11 games as you say you watched. Hypothetical questions are important…to you. Because that way, you can convince yourself that Rose didn’t deserve it, when he actually did. Which is why he won it. LeBron James, a man who has 3 MVP awards, who’s played against him quite a bit and knows a thing or two about the game, says he’s one of the greatest to ever do it while you watch 11 games and say that his PER wasn’t good enough, he was too young and he’s not MVP caliber yet. Hilarious that you think you’re in a position to say that it “wasn’t okay” that Rose won the award.

  • danpowers

    “my” little per. no comment on win shares. if it makes you happy: it was ok. wouldve just been better in my oppinion if they gave it to one of the three i mentioned.

  • danpowers

    uhm… again: see the bulls record anytime rose went out. dont give me their playoffs without him. its not probable that they wouldve ended the same with him but we dont know, so that would be hypothetical stuff as you didnt like it in my statement earlier. k, then leave aside howard n take durant. much better player and also successful by that time.

    by letting him look good i mean that their team defense is great and that he could be worse off with sidekicks like deng, noah and boozer. thats more talent bron had in cleveland back then.

    going back to a players efficiency. rose per ranking 9th in the league is the lowest with nash’s in more than ten years (didnt check way back but wouldnt be suprised if it would make it the last 20 or more years) for an mvp award winner. per isnt everything but its useful to see how well a player actually uses his talent on court. i also wasnt that much of a fan of giving nash that award even though he ran his team absolutely incredibly great. but defense is a very important part of the game, too and nash couldnt guard sh*t. rose’s d is way better than nash’s but he could really play a little better on that end, too or at least improve a little b4 earning mvp honors. but again, our convo went way too long already, its late over here n were getting nowhere anyway.

  • Happy

    I wouldn’t say he robbed him, but let’s all be honest here. Lebron was the most hated athlete in the U.S at the time. Let’s not sit here and pretend like that didn’t give Rose a lil boost in MVP votes.

    It’s easy to defend Rose’s MVP, but people act like Bron Hate had no role whatsoever.

  • Anthony Dixon

    true Barera was hott that year… But bellelli is underated to me

  • Dutch Rich

    Here, I’m quoting what seemed to be universal pre-season sentiment.

    The Chicago Bulls looked like they’d be a broken-down, 45-win team withoutDerrick Rose and after shipping out the majority of their “bench mob.”

    Certain preseason predictions—like the Bulls plummeting to mediocrity—just seemed set in stone. Now midway through the season, it’s invigorating, and humbling, to be proven wrong.

    Tom Thibodeau has spearheaded a defensive revolution in Chicago, and despite the odds, the Bulls are once again a threatening presence in the Eastern Conference.

    So in my conclusion I think that while Reggie may look at this through a different lens, the average Bulls fan should be very pleased with what has transpired this season. And while they’re on pace to do only slightly better than predicted percentage wise, it still has them at #5 in the East. Which also speaks volumes about the Eastern conference btw.

  • pposse

    if i had a vote in the MVP i would automatically disqualify Lebron from the MVP conversation in 2011 based on the fact that the prior two years he won the MVP his team record was 60 plus games. He goes to a team with Wade and Bosh and they only won 58 games, and lost many games in the deciding moments. It has (my vote) has nothing to do with hate; on the flip side, here comes another superstar driving his team to 60 plus victories in basically the same way that Lebron was doing it the previous 2 years. D Rose was a clear cut front runner for the award imo bc he earned it the same basic way Lebron earned his the previous 2 years.

    it might not be fair/logical way to look at it, but Lebron set those standards for himself. He didn’t live up to his own expectations that year in the regular season while another superstar came thru big time.

  • Happy

    That’s you, but you weren’t a voting member of the media that spent a year crucifying Lebron, and blowing that whole situation out of proportion.

    I’m not saying that Rose didn’t deserve it, but the backlash definitely hurt Lebron’s chances. No one who is rational can deny that.

  • sroy

    The Bulls won’t consistently win until they get a DRose to grow another 3 inches or so. SHot of that, he’s an awesome guard, but the likes of LBJ, Bosh and any number of the leagues big men will shut him down. Jordan was pretty skinny when he started, but developed mass and strength to complement his skills. Over time, DRose will only lose speed and agility that hasn’t already been cut by the knee injury. Bulking up won’t help him. If people in Chicago can get over the desparate hero worship of the next Jordan myth, they will realize DRose is the Pippen of the Bulls, not the Jordan. They really need a #1 big man.

  • brad09

    I dont think Reggie said anything that people dont know.

  • KevinJohnsonFan

    You haven’t seen much.

  • KevinJohnsonFan

    What is your expertise? Watching a few games and Googling stats? Won’t find too many people who share your opinion. Great players win MVP awards. Rose is a great player. Took him 3 seasons to become great. His peers see it. Has nothing to do with age. He’s there now. And getting better.

  • danpowers

    b*tch please

  • danpowers

    whatever you say fanboy

  • KevinJohnsonFan

    Sounds like a man who can’t generate an original thought. No ground to stand on with anything you have to say.

  • KevinJohnsonFan

    Says the guy with the Knicks logo as his picture lol. Nothing more for you to say. You were lost as soon as you started trying to make a point. Keep watching your Knicks with that 4 game losing streak they have going.

  • http://twitter.com/Memel00 Mark

    I think WE ALL KNOW THAT ROSE didn’t deserve the MVP in 2011 the media hyped him like crazy because they were anti-MIAMI and anti-Lebron!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So they elevated Rose and the Bulls in order to bring MIA/Lebron down.

  • Swizz

    Plus Stop Riding MJ jock. Malone played a great season and won MVP.

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