Derrick Rose Injury

As we all know Derrick Rose missed all of the 2012-2013 season because of a torn ACL. There was a lot of controversy going on because towards the last part of the year, the doctor cleared Rose to play. However, Rose did not feel confident enough to come back and play at full strength. People began to say he was a baby and he is soft. My perspective was why not wait to you feel that you are 100% before you go back out there. Basketball, just like all sports, is a mental game as well and if you do not go into the game mentally prepared then you will most likely have a bad game.

This year Derrick Rose started off the season playing from the opening tip. In the off season Rose was asked questions like who do you think is the best player in the NBA? Rose answered and said himself like most players of his caliber would say. So now there were tons of people that predicted him to be the MVP this year and all this talk about him being the best. So to start off this year Rose was not playing good at all. He was only averaging around 13 points per game and turning the ball over way too much. I feel like all the hype he had to live up to was too much for him, plus coming off a season where you did not play one minute of action is tough.

Then on November 22, 10 games into the season Rose went down again. This time he tore his right meniscus. Rose will miss the rest of this season with season ending surgery. There were two surgery paths he could have taken. A quick surgery that prepares the meniscus for the short run and gets you back on the court this year, but in the long run you will have knee problems. The other one is a six month process that keeps you out for the whole year and prepares the meniscus 100%. Dwayne Wade picked the short-term surgery when he tore his meniscus in his college days and not he is paying for that with bad knees. I think Rose made a good choice on taking the longer route.

(Derrick Rose warming up before the game on November 6, 2013)

 

                                                          (My image Dominique Neely)

Paul George

Paul George is a shooting guard that plays in the NBA for the Indiana Pacers. Coming out of college at Fresno State, George was an overlooked rookie that no one had really heard of. He got to the Pacers in 2010 at 6'8 and was expected to get time off the bench. His rookie year he averaged 7.8 points per game. The following summer George shot up to 6'10 and that is huge for a player that plays on the wing.

George's numbers have went up pretty significantly every single year he has been in the league. His second year he average 12 points per game, last year he average 17.5 points per game, and this year he is on the brink to be a MVP candidate average 23.9 points per game. The Pacers are in first place in the East with a record of 16-2 which is the best record in the NBA. George is a tough match-up for wing players because most wing players in the league are 6'6 to 6'8.

Off the court he has done some pretty neat things in my opinion as well. His Alma Mater Fresno State had a football game coming up this season and George decided to buy all of the tickets for that game and give them away for free. That is a pretty neat thing to hear because I am sure they're are families out there that would like to go the game, but do not have the money to go. George gave these people an opportunity to attend the game and I think that is pretty neat.

(Paul George Coming off A Screen on November 2, 2013

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                                                         (My Image Dominique Neely)