A seriously compromised USA Basketball National Team, combined with Derrick Rose playing and talking as if he never sustained an injury in his life, should make anyone hoping to see Rose return to his MVP form next season nervous.
Why? Because for all of Rose's talk about having learned that he must dial back his instinct to be in attack mode every second he's on the floor, NBA executives watching him perform with the national team say they have seen little change in his approach.
"He didn't back off at all," said one rival Eastern Conference general manager. "He was blasting baseline to baseline the way he always has. And on defense he actually was blocking shots left and right because guys were testing him. He wasn't, in any way, shape or form, favoring his leg or looking as if he'd been hurt."
Added a Western Conference GM: "You'd never know he got hurt."
As impressive as it is that he is showing no signs of tentativeness after missing most of the last two seasons with knee injuries—signs that would be particularly noticeable sharing a floor with the league's best young talents as they battle for roste ...
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Derrick Rose Looks as Tenacious as Ever, and That Should Concern the Bulls
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