Derrick Rose believes his mental approach to the game has caused as many issues for him as his physical decline.

"I was in a dark place years ago, man," Rose said Saturday. "By a dark place, I mean, I was playing, like, revenge basketball, and that wasn't my way of playing basketball.

"I enjoy competing, but when I came back it was about just trying to get back to the top and proving everybody wrong. Like, I know who I am as a man, I know who I am as a player or person. There's no point in doing that anymore. It's just being secure as a person and knowing who I am."

Rose won the MVP in 2011 but suffered a torn ACL in 2012 and has played in just 230 out of 394 regular season games.