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)