"This is what leadership looks like. This is what defines greatness.

Vowing "to try to go crazy" before Monday's game against Washington, Derrick Rose did exactly that in the Bulls' 98-88 bounce-back victory.

Yet Rose didn't do so in ballhog, I-gotta-get-mine fashion. Thirteen of his 35 points came in the first quarter. Two of his eight assists came in the second, when Kyle Korver got hot. He took over again in the third with 15 points. Then, trapped consistently in the fourth, Rose found Joakim Noah in the high post as his release point."