The Bernstein Brief: We Get It, Derrick
By Dan Bernstein--
CBSChicago.com senior columnist
(CBS) It's a hard enough thing to watch the Bulls right now, so I can't even imagine how difficult it must be to have to play for them.
This is a weak soup of a team that has now dropped 12 of its past 17 games, the latest a 108-91 rout in Charlotte on Monday night. And point guard Derrick Rose got to miss it.
He participated in shootaround, had his uniform on Monday evening and was presumably ready to go, but he and the team decided he could sit due to "general soreness," which Rose aptly described in further, richer detail as "just soreness all over."
All over it was indeed, after the Bulls trailed 38-20 after one quarter. Rose was smart enough to miss that, not joining his teammates on the bench until shortly thereafter. He would've been better served staying in the locker room for another two hours or just going to the plane.
That's one big problem with attending Bulls games these days -- the inability to turn them off or change the channel. This team inspires more rage-quits and exasperated remote-flips than any in recent memory, to the point that all their defensive lapses, selfish possessions and end-game choking have us feeling the pain.
We're sore all over, too, Derrick.
Dan Bernstein is a co-host of 670 The Score's "Boers and Bernstein Show" in afternoon drive. You can follow him on Twitter @dan_bernstein and read more of his columns here.