I have no reason not to take him at his word. This just seems to me to be getting awfully close to the Mark Prior towel jokes. Nothings wrong Mark, the team doctors checked your shoulder. What word? He hasn't said he's still hurt; just the vague and nebulous "I'll be back when I'm ready." Couple that with how he looks in practice and what the Roses have said about the Bulls I'm surprised anyone actually thinks he's still hurt. He's said when he is 100 percent he's coming back. Yes, it's a stupid, meatball thing to say from a guy who has a history of saying such things. It's a pointless catch-22 since he'll never actually be "100%" until he actually gets back into game shape/rhythm (especially critical given the nature of his injury and style of play since there's a question of how much the latter will have changed)...which he can only do by playing. That's hardly the only option, and it seems very, very, very unlikely. This is a meaningless hypothetical; it's frustration over one of the best players in the game willfully and unnecessarily sitting out the last two months. He's prolonging his own rehab/adjustment period and potentially impacting how the Bulls approach the offseason. The Bulls basically have to make moves assuming/hoping he'll be the same Rose when he comes back.