Dec 27 2008
Rookie Showdown Goes as Expected
Boring~… I’m talking about the Miami Chicago game last night, which featured the no. 1 and no. 2 draft picks meeting for the first time. I didn’t expect much, and the game was decent, but if you were looking to see the rookies in action, I am sorry my friend, you were robbed. Neither rookie really made their presence even remotely felt, and it turned out to be fellow rookie Mario Chalmers to have the best game (albeit just decent).
If you weren’t hooked up on the whole rookie showdown thing, it was a pretty good game. It featured some scrappy defense from a Miami team that looks like they are surprisingly playoff bound (albeit in an overall weak eastern conference), and a disappearing act by Ben Gordon. Chicago’s silver lining has been rookie Derrick Rose, who is arguably the rookie of the year (although O.J. Mayo might disagree), but Rose was cold all night shooting 3-14. But then again, the Bulls as a unit shot only 37%.
