After missing five preseason games and seven practices due to the handling of his trial, Derrick Rose will be forced to “learn by fire,” New York Knicks head coach Jeff Hornacek tells ESPN's Ian Begley.

Having missed the last two weeks attending to his trial, Rose and his two friends were found not liable in a civil lawsuit that accused them of gang-raping his ex-girlfriend when she was intoxicated.

Despite the trial being over, Rose missed last night's game against the Brooklyn Nets, but is expected to rejoin the team today and go over concepts of the offense that were implemented during his absence.

“I'll probably just sit with them and go over some things,” said Hornacek on Thursday. “I'll probably overload him with a lot of information and then when he comes in [Saturday for practice with teammates], he'll try to learn by fire. We'll get him in early probably and run him through some stuff with some of the guys. But I want to talk to him a bit with that stuff and maybe take him out on the court and at least show him some different things. He got some of it at least in training camp. So some of it will be a review but we'll start to show him the new things.”

Rose had been previously vocal about the complexity of the triangle system and called it “complicated.” Hornacek is using a simplified, more basic version of the offensive system, one that is based on speed of movement rather than precise rotation.

“We hope it comes together well,” Hornacek said. “[Rose is] a veteran player. He's played with Jo (Joakim Noah) before. Obviously him and Jo and Justin [Holiday] were teammates in Chicago so they have that familiarity. He's probably played in All-Star Games with Carmelo [Anthony]. So he has that and we have training camp. It's not like we just traded for him yesterday and he's got to come in there and pick it up. He has a little background with these guys. So hopefully it doesn't take too long.”

It's hard not to take Hornacek's words with a grain of salt, as the point guard position is essential in any team and knowing the spots teammates will be in is key.