When I saw Kirk sitting next to him in the game I saw something special happening. Kirk was critiquing Teague, Bellinelli, and Robinson from a basketball perspective and convincing him that he wouldn't make that stupid, that errant shot, that missed assignment.
I was them both cringe at a couple passes, but they were in cink and talking about something. Rose isn't physcially broken anymore, he simply thinks the pressure of being Derrick rose is too much to live up to. He is mentally broken. You could here that echoed in Noah's comments....."If you had to lead your team, if you had to be the pg, league MVP.
The Rose team just doesn't get it. He doesn't have to be MVP, he has to try to show us he cares. He can even fail and we will make a billion excuses for him. What they are slowly realizing is what he can't afford is to not try because he isn't mentally ready for the challenge.