Here’s ESPN.com reporting on Team USA and Bulls guard Derrick Rose:
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Rose has seemed more at ease since the squad left the United States for Europe. He’s facing all the questions about his knees from nosy reporters head-on, even after Team USA coach Mike Krzyzewski told ESPN.com last week that he sensed “a part of [Rose] that’s like, ‘Quit asking me how I feel, I’m good.'”
“I’m just trying to put that behind me,” Rose said of any trepidation he’s feeling as he ramps up his comeback from the two devastating injuries that limited him to 10 games over the past two seasons with the Bulls.
“I know the questions are going to come and they’re going to be there the whole year. So I can’t get tired of it. I’m feeling good right now.
“Just trying to get in better shape, get in better condition, so that when I do need to score the ball, then it’ll be there.”
Before the tournament started, Rose likened the prospect of five games in the first six days of the World Cup to an “AAU-type schedule.”
