Derrick Rose has been cleared to play as many minutes as he wants to (Ball Don’t Lie)

The Chicago Bulls have been working up a pretty trashy brand of basketball recently, watching as their offense goes flat while pairing that putrid play with absolutely terrible defense. The squad has lost six of eight since an impressive home win over the Houston Rockets on Jan. 5, and the team's schedule only gets worse from here on out: Chicago is set to take on the Spurs, Mavericks, Heat and Warriors over a six-day stretch that takes them from Chicago to Texas, back to Chicago and then out to the Bay Area. The Bulls are already without Joakim Noah, suffering from an ankle injury and the aftereffects of a knee surgery that the team's not-to-be-trusted medical staff diagnosed as "minor" some eight and a half months ago. Injured swingmen Mike Dunleavy Jr. and Doug McDermott might be pushed back into the rotation during this stretch of games far earlier than they should, Dunleavy couldn't run last week and it took a month for the Bulls to relent and submit that McDermott needed knee surgery after he was seen limping around with a knee sleeve to start the season. Things are, well, they're not rosy. Derrick Rose, however, is getting Rose-ier as the season moves along. His defense...