Despite having a surging 2018-19 season under old coach Tom Thibodeau and the Minnesota Timberwolves, league executives around the league still view Derrick Rose with “a mix of wonder and skepticism as he continues to have his best season since 2011-12, when he was last an All-Star and before his first knee injury,” according to ESPN's Brian Windhorst.

Rose has a career-high 50-point game to his name this season, as well as several heroics for the Timberwolves, doing what he failed to do with the Chicago Bulls toward the tail end of his tenure, with the New York Knicks and with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

The Chicago native is shooting 46 percent this season on 3-pointers and a whopping 54 percent over the past nine games — all coming from the same player that shot a combined 27 percent from deep over the last four seasons.

Some have wondered if a player could have learned to shoot that accurately that late into his career.

Derrick Rose has the highest true shooting percentage and effective field goal percentage in his career, and the eye test doesn't fall short either — as he looks that much more explosive on the floor than he did in the past four years.

Besides the impressive numbers that defeat the logic, it's Rose's fragility that is largely viewed with skepticism, as he's had injury setbacks in each of his last four stops — including some that have made him consider leaving the game altogether.

Derrick Rose could be having a late career-awakening, but executives will likely hold their breath until he does it for the entire season — hopeful for the best, but cautious for what they expect could be a return to Earth in the near future.