The Minnesota Timberwolves continue to collect former bulls. Maybe Tom Thibodeau has seen the light at the local church. Former Bulls head coach is on a mission from God. His mission is getting  the band back together. He was able to orchestrate a trade with the Bulls in the off season and got his lead singer in Jimmy Butler. Then they have Taj Gibson on the drums. Jamal Crawford on the keys. Let’s not forget Aaron Brooks on the sax.  Now the Thibodeau has added Derrick Rose. Since he is a part time player, he can play the triangle. Might be asking too much for Rose also to handle the maracas. Now the Timberwolves should seek out Joakim Noah and add him to the horn section of other X bulls they can gather up.

People still argue today that  Tom Thibodeau ran Rose and others in the ground in Chicago? Thibodeau had a mind set never leave your foot off the gas petal. The same philosophy as Bill Belichick has running the Evil Empire Patriots. How did the Eagles beat the Patriots in the Superbowl? By not using the Atlanta Falcons second half  play book in their Superbowl appearance and making sure they kept going for the jugular. Derrick Rose went down with a knee injury late in a game the Bulls had wrapped up. It was a playoff game. Derrick’s knee could of of went out the following game in the first quarter as well. Thibodeau continued to win despite the Bulls front office craziness. He continued to win even though the front office did not help him add new talent to the mix. They even ignored the coaches’ suggestions on players in the draft. Look how that turned out. The front office hoped and prayed that Rose would come back. Rose did. But he was not the same player like he was in 2011 when he was the MVP of the league. John Paxson and Gar Foreman put all the eggs in Rose’s basket and all’s they came up with was scrambled eggs of a mess. They eventually chased the coach out of town. Then traded all the pieces they had. Now the Bulls are all about tanking for draft picks these days.

Derrick Rose started the season in Cleveland. He needed a few weeks to find himself and do a little soul searching. He ended up coming back to play for the Cavaliers. The Cavaliers were not doing so well so they decided to trade Rose to the Jazz. Actually Cleveland got rid of another X bull in Dwayne Wade as they sent him back to Miami. Meanwhile Rose was released by the Jazz and never even suited up for them. This tells me most of the Bull’s players through the days of Thibodeau and after are not even worth it. All of Paxson and Foreman’s guys. As their dollar values should be dropped to paying them pesos. Rose I believe does not have a lot left in the tank to offer. I’m sure he will work a few minutes off the bench for the Timberwolves down the stretch in a few games. It depends if he still has his posse telling the organization when he is available to play like in those years after the injuries. The Bulls kept hoping Rose’s buddies would give the Bulls permission to play him more than once a week.  Paxson and Gar Foreman let Rose handcuff them and still paid him big money for what? The Bulls slowly sank in Lake Michigan. While Paxson and Foreman dressed up like women and pushed the kids aside and abandoned ship. They should have unloaded him way earlier. Eventually it was too late to come up with something on the fly as they tried. This led the Bulls to get rid of Taj Gibson who was a great rebounder and played very well on defense. Him and Jimmy Butler were the only two Bulls players that were worth something. As the draft picks were left on the roster, you scratched your head and wondered why they chose him or him.

The Timberwolves will use Rose if needed. He will come off the bench to rest players if needed. Maybe you get a slight spark from him here and there. He is not going to take over a game for your team. If they do get anything it will be coach Thibodeau that will get anything left out of a guy who’s just a shell of himself and far away from the player he used to be. A guy that was worried 20 million dollars would not be enough to provide for his family. It’s the addition of Jimmy Butler that has this team playoff bound. Guys like Gibson will get the dirty jobs done. Overall if the Timberwolves can stay healthy I think they can get deep in the playoffs with the guys they already have. They have to get Jimmy back to health. If so they might be able to merge to the second round this go around, not like those Garnett teams who were unable to get out of the first round.  In the future if I was Thibs, I would stay away from X Chicago Musicians. They will need to add another major guitar player to the mix in the future to get past the Golden State festival. They will find out they also will need another triangle player after a few games, after they see that the red rose at one point soon has wilted away completely.