Away from the glare, away from the attention, and away from his hometown, Derrick Rose went back to playing like Derrick Rose on Thursday.
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The Bulls guard notched his highest scoring total in three years and his highest playoff scoring total in four years in Chicago’s Game 3 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks. Sloughed off to the relative anonymity of an NBA TV contest, working in front of a Milwaukee crowd that seemed nearly half-made up of Chicago Bulls fans, Rose attacked early and then often on his way toward 34 points in Chicago’s 113-106 double overtime win.