I honestly think that's very much on the conservative end for Rose. But then again, you have Hinrich going off, so I can't accuse you of being pessimistic. :) With this matchup, I see Rose at least in the upper-teens (17 or so) in terms of points. Hell, I know it's preseason, but he scored 7 in like 5 minutes against them the other day. With the amount of burn I expect him to get, and with the attack style we saw from Rose in the last few games (not to mention the guards he's up against), I just don't see him scoring that few. I'm predicting jitters, plus teams adjusting to him from his preseason performance. I mean the kid is what 19 years old? 20, but fair enough. Dallas was trapping and double teaming him and he still went off for 30... a good amount of it against Kidd/Terry. I mean, this is Luke Ridnour and Michael Redd (and Damon Jones/Lue/Griffin). You have a fair point with the possible jitters, though. They will adjust to him and start clogging the lane to keep him from getting to the basket so easily and making our outside shooters beat them eventually. Don't know if that'll be right away or if they'll make Rose prove it in real games first, but hopefully Noc and Gordon will be up to the task if and when that happens.