Derrick Rose should sit out the season

The Bulls need to figure out a way to get another star-caliber player to pair with Derrick Rose (see yesterdays post), and the easiest way to do this now is to get lucky with the draft, and for this reason Derrick Rose should sit out the entirety of next season. While the Bulls will not be able to reach Bobcat levels of losses next season, they do not need to in order to get a lottery pick and get lucky. With Derrick Rose out, the Bulls will be relying on Captain Kirk (for some reason the thought of him back in a Bulls uni makes me happy) Deng, Boozer and Noah. By my estimation that should be 8th seed team behind the Heat, Celtics, Pacers, Nets, Knicks, 76ers, and Hawks if they are all engaged and playing well (I'm looking at you Knicks, Andrew Bynum and Josh Smith). Derrick making a late season return would at best push them into 6th or 7th seed territory, nothing to pound your chest over. Additionally he will not be in good enough shape to lead the Bulls past the Heat (which unfortunately was probably not going to happen even if he was healthy) so bringing him back only opens the door for him getting re-injured due to his competitiveness and making the Bulls draft pick worse- not a good combination. For those same reasons Luol Deng should have that wrist surgery he does not seem to think he needs (which he does http://bullsbythehorns.com/?p=3936). Regardless of whether he needs it to play better, the Bulls are better served if he has the surgery and misses some time, as this could very well push the Bulls into the lottery, and as our acquisition of Derrick Rose taught us, once you are in the lottery, anything can happen! This increases the odds of the Bulls falling into the lottery especially when you consider that Noah's ankle and any randomly selected piece of Carlos Boozer could very well keep one or both of them out a sizable chunk of the season. If one of those two is out for a while who knows, maybe a youthful Cavaliers team or the Bucks are able snag that eight seed, thus give the Bulls a chance at winning the lottery, both literally and figuratively.