Coach John Calipari Defends Derrick Rose

5072086676_8c18989230      Derrick Rose is taking a lot of heat in Chicago, and it’s not the Miami kind of Heat.  Fans in the windy city are starting to question if Rose is taking a bit too long to recover from his acl injury.  Who is one of the first people to come to his defense? That would be his former coach John Calipari.

“An NBA player’s body, if he does anything to hurt his own body he’s wrecking his own career. You let them listen to their bodies.

“The second thing is, I’ve talked to Chicago Bulls management, I know all those guys… and you know what? They’re fine. They didn’t want him to go back. As a matter of fact, they wanted to announce he wasn’t coming back, but Derrick didn’t want to do it because he thought if there is any chance for me to come back…

“But let me ask you this: At the end of the day after they got going, and they were going to play Miami in the second (round), what good would it have done other than he could have got hurt? Tell me what good it could have done?

“So all this stuff, is all fine, all I can tell you is he’s a great kid, the Bulls supported him. I support him because I’m not gonna (say), ‘Yea, head out there, why doesn’t he come back this is crazy the doctor cleared him, okay now he got hurt.’ How do you feel now?…

“Knowing him the way he is, knowing he is a great kid and somebody who probably in the worst way wanted to play, but just was so tentative he wasn’t right. He didn’t trust it yet and you gotta respect that.” -Coach Cal

 

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Marcus Lee on Winning a National Championship – ” That is All We Plan on Doing ”

lee     One thing that these young Kentucky Wildcats have is confidence.  Confidence was a major part that was lacking last season.  I don’t think we have to worry about that issue anymore.

“Winning the national championship has gone through our minds. Now it’s stuck in our minds. That is all we plan on doing, especially since we are all big competitors. We will refuse to lose next year,” – Marcus Lee

 

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