QUOTE (chw42 @ May 19, 2011 -> 02:09 AM)
I really wonder how badly that ankle is hurt. He had almost a whole week of rest between the first and second rounds. He looked just fine for most of the Atlanta series, hell, he scored 44 points on what could have been a seriously injured ankle.
There's bad games, then there's games where Rose blows a handful of layups where he would normally never miss and then goes to feel for his ankle after he gets knocked down on a foul. I'm not completely sure, but he might have ended up missing the FTs after that foul (or it might have been the foul before that).
Something's not right here.
I really can't tell if it's the ankle, fatigue, or just a bad game when he plays like he did tonight. I can just tell immediately when I see his first jump shot how he is going to play.