Due to his age, and talent, I have said I am not completely against keeping him IF the deal is good. At most a 3 year deal, with a 4th year team option. If he plays really well rest of the way, maybe 75/3 guaranteed with a 4th year team option. Just have to be realistic that a guard that can give you 18 points a night, get to the basket at will, with his star standing, will get serious money. No way 150/5 or anything like that. He is 28, he is still physically in his prime. It's clear that he is athletically still fantastic.
If he has a backcourt teammate who can be the point guard, who can run the plays and offense, while Rose focuses on being a shooting guard who scorers, I can see him do well. We would have to spread the floor out, and have KP learn how to set much better screens than KP does. Rose has to work on his tunnel vision and realize that KP is shooter, so he has to look for a pass back to KP instead of always looking for a rolling big man.
We definitely need someone next to Rose in the backcourt who will take the tougher or more demanding of the two opposing guards defensively. Sort of like what Baker did, he took on Thomas. Then Lee came in, he took on him. We saw similar to the Triangle that Rose was not bringing the ball up always, it was Lee and Baker doing it as well. We need to have Rose do the lighter load on defense and focus on scoring on offense. I love his chemistry with Plumlee. Wow, the picks Plumlee sets for him was giving Rose so much more to work with. Plumlee is a great asset when you have ball dominant scorers like Rose/Melo. He should be a staple in our games, he sets great screens for those guys and they need it.
1/18/2017 10:14 PM