After winning the 2008-’09 Rookie of the Year Award, Derrick Rose had a lot of high expectations coming into his sophomore season.  Well, D. Rose met and exceeded most of those expectations and has proven to be one of the top (if not the top) point guards in the Eastern Conference.  Rose had a slow start to the season due to an ankle injury, where he shot 46% and averaged only 16.2 points, 5.3 assists, and 2.9 rebounds in the month of November.  Those are still very good numbers, but when you compare them to his final averages of 20.8 points, 6.0 assists, and 3.8 rebounds on 49% shooting you can see that he wasn’t 100% healthy early in the season.  Last season as a rookie he averaged 16.8 points, 6.3 assists, and 3.9 rebounds while shooting 47% from the field.  He has become much more of a threat scoring the ball, thanks to his much improved outside shot.  The big knock on Rose coming into the NBA and throughout his rookie campaign was that he lacked a consistent outside shot.  He worked hard and it paid off, because he is deadly from 15-20 feet out and is starting to add the three-pointer to his arsenal.  What is even more impressive when you talk about Rose, is that he stepped his game up when it mattered most…the playoffs.  In the Bulls five-game series loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Rose averaged 26.8 points, 7.2 assists, and 3.4 rebounds.  Rose is only 21-years-old, so his game will continue to improve for the next couple of years.  With his youth, superior athleticism, and natural feel for the game, it looks like Rose will be an elite point guard in this league for years to come and could end up being the best point guard in the NBA in a few years.