Derrick Rose has already been through the rigors of the postseason four times alongside Tom Thibodeau, so he knew what to expect as the Knicks embarked on their preparation for Sunday’s Game 1 of the opening-round playoff series against the Atlanta Hawks. Or at least he thought he did.
"With Thibs, it’s still the same," Rose said. "Only thing that’s changed is the playbook. The books that we get for the playoffs, they don’t look like bibles anymore. They look like regular school books. You used to have like binders full of the plays when we were in Chicago.