Kyrie struggles to score on Derrick Rose

[JohnMax]

He scored most of his points when Rose wasn't on him.

[Spaulding]

Cool

[Uncle Drew]

OP struggles with scoring on the IQ scale.

[Wally450]

Gr8 banter m8

[ShawkFactory]

How is it that the most useless poster on this site has made the most fvcking threads?

[Gileraracer]

Lebron struggles to score when he's beyond 5ft.

[nathanjizzle]

ri ri is still rusty from all of his injuries. Also every elite pg has trouble scoring against rose, even curry and westbrook.

[JebronLames]

Won't have trouble scoring on Klay

[StephHamann]

Cool story brah

[PP34Deuce]

ri ri is still rusty from all of his injuries. Also every elite pg has trouble scoring against rose, even curry and westbrook.

Rose, when motivated can severely limit PG's. I've seen this guy give Prime athlete Chris Paul fits in the past.

The Bulls have no identity and it's confused his role there. The guy has amazing defensive awareness and still great athletiscm.

[Crimsonrain777]

Rose is a great on the ball defender. one of the best at the pg position, actually(but you can catch him hard with picks). it's really not that surprising

[imdaman99]

Common knowledge, most PGs do their scoring on picks and when big men have to cover them. That's how Rose did all his scoring 'against Westbrook'.

[The_Pharcyde]

Rose has always locked up kyrie when he guards him, dating back to their first meeting

The craftiness that kyrie has never works on Rose

Kyrie gets his buckets once brooks comes in

Rose always takes care of kyrie no problem, essentially a non factor when he plays against them

[RedBlackAttack]

It seems to me that Rose always gives a little extra against Kyrie ever since the summer of 2014 when it was assumed Rose would be the starter for Team USA in the World Cup, but Kyrie ended up beating him out and winning the MVP.

I don't think there is necessarily bad blood, but it seems to get his competitive juices flowing. That's fine with me, btw. Rose tends to put up a ton of shots when he is playing against Kyrie, and a lot of them are pretty low percentage.

In the playoff series last year -- in which Kyrie was playing at about 80% health-wise -- Rose was the one having problems with scoring efficiently.

Eastern Conference Semifinal averages (6 games):

Kyrie Irving
17.5 points on 12.2 FGAs
44/42/90 splits
58.5 TS%
48.6 eFG
114 ORtng

Derrick Rose
21.7 points on 22.5 FGAs
38/31/90 splits
45.2 TS%
41.5 eFG
102 ORtng

[Rocketswin2013]

He's been bad against the good defenses all year. completely dominated by Rose as well.