Interesting way to put it.

Thank you.

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You get the "JLN of the Week" award.

Do you? Should he have shown up in a Benny The Bull Uniforn and met him at the airport in order to show him his appreciation too?

No matter how you try and spin it, it's not Derrick Rose's job to kiss Lebron James's ass and beg him to play here. Thats Management's job.

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Here's the box score:

https://www.ihsa.org/Sports-Activities/ ... /index.htm

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Where did I do that?

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You don't know your history. Simeon won back to back in 06 and 07.

The game you're referencing occurred during his junior year.

He scored 2 points in the State Championship Game during his senior year

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I specifically mentioned the Richwoods game, didn't I?

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So what? I didn't. I specifically mentioned Derrick Rose scoring 2 points in a State Final game. You chimed in with Richwoods and said it never happened. Clearly it did happen. There is nothing to discuss. You got it wrong.

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I didn't say it never happened and I didn't say Rose should have recruited LeBron. You must be reading an imaginary message board.

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Yes you did.

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Odd that in Rose's trial the jurors posed for pictures with him after they found him not guilty.

Has the Bernstein Bluesky experiment ended because he realized no one was following him there?

It's funny how all of the "I'm going to Bluesky" people have slowly moved back to Twitter because Bluesky is just a weird echo chamber.

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bernstein is a dope. Ed Walsh is more deserving of a statue than Paul Konerko, but 3/4 of current fans don't even know who Walsh is. Same thing with Chet Walker. Number retirements and statues are fan service. "Deserves" got nothing to do with it.

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Bernstein never left Twitter, just started posting on both. So yes he's a hypocrite, drag 'im, Ogie!

Spitballer. If Ed Walsh ever got a statue, I'd throw red paint on it.

This is an offensive take.

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I was at that game, too. It was amazing to watch a player dominate the game while only scoring two points. As we were leaving the Civic Center a couple idiots behind us were saying "I don't know what the big deal is about Rose, he only scored two points".

After the game my buddy and I were having a drink in the Peoria Marquette where the teams used to stay. The Simeon team walked in and I joked to my friend we should get his autograph. He said "I have a pen". I still have my ticket from that game autographed by Rose.

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Was he wearing the sex belt?

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That's actually a travel. You still could see the athleticism however.

Ironically people in the comment section are commenting about Lebron traveling if he attempts something similar but what they don't mention is that there is a move that has become patented by NBA players which is a travel each and every time.

Those slide step/step back 3's which are all of the rage in the NBA?these days are traveling violations. Harden started it years ago and my guy Tatum does it at least 5 times per game and refs never call it.

You cannot move your pivot foot after picking your dribble up. They all use this particular move and I never see it called as a traveling violation.

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There's a travel or carry on every trip down the floor in today's basketball.

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Not every trip but I get your point.

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A breakaway not sped up.
https://youtu.be/qT5GlgXrX-0?t=129

Basketball was a young game. It's why it's evolved so much since then. Had it began 25 years earlier, then maybe Bill Russell would be a 6'9" PF who shot a good percentage and have natural and not mechanical basketball moves.

I'm sorry 1960 skill leveled players would get their asses handed to them today. It's not their fault. It's not so with baseball. Because it's an older sport. Mickey Mantle would still be Mickey Mantle in 2024.

Humans did not "evolve" in 2 or 3 generations.

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How many hours did Bill Russell put into basketball compared to Derrick Rose? What kind of sophistication of coaching and training was there in 1960. The GAME evolved. The player today has 'enhancements'.

While I will grant you that is better than in the 60's it's not a better game than it was in the 80's. You have point guards today who can't be bothered with learning how to pass and dribble. Centers that cannot perform a simple drop step nor learn to play with their back to the basket. And the shot selection is horrendous

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No. They just became full time from age 3.

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