Bulls' Rose right for answering Dwight
Derrick Rose doesn't make many missteps on or off the court.
And the opinion here is that he didn't make one in answering a question about Dwight Howard being interested in the Bulls.
“Dwight, he's a great player,”' Rose said. “Who wouldn't want to play with him? But you never know what's going to happen.”
It seems unlikely that the Bulls can make this happen, especially since John Paxson has a habit of falling in love with and hanging onto his own players too long.
But this will nevertheless be a test of Rose's Teflon personality, because some of his teammates ought to interpret his answer as meaning he'd rather have Howard than some of them.
Of course, Rose is right and that's really too bad for them.
Still, if they weren't afraid of the media response to criticizing Rose, some of the Bulls' big men might react to such a comment.
At the same time, if LeBron James or Dwyane Wade made such a remark about playing with Howard, they would get absolutely blasted from coast to coast, and Canada to Mexico, for being selfish and disrespecting their teammates.
But Rose seems bulletproof to any sort of criticism, with a different set of rules as the national media applies them.
So there probably won't be much blowback at all.
Bearing down
There was some shameful cheerleading for Jerry Angelo when he got the job, and Monday brought the same response to Phil Emery in some corners.
For those who still miss Angelo, consider that the Patriots took 18 undrafted free agents to the Super Bowl, while the Giants feature undrafted free-agent wide receiver Victor Cruz, who wasn't even invited to the Combine out of Massachusetts.
#8220;Being from a small school, I understand it,#8221; Cruz said in Indianapolis. #8220;I wasn't 6-foot-5, 220 pounds, or I didn't have off-the-wall statistics, so I understood how that whole thing goes.
#8220;But I'd rather be here for the Super Bowl now than the Combine.#8221;
Time will tell if Emery is any better than Angelo at unearthing such gems.
The good cause