The Post asked two sports lawyers their opinion about the Derrick Rose case. Daniel Werly believes Rose’s rape accuser will have a tough time proving her case. Daniel Wallach, however, says Rose’s testimony may not play well with the jury.

This trial boils down to one issue: whether the accuser consented to intercourse with Derrick Rose and his friends.

Because there is a complete absence of any physical evidence, such as a rape kit or corroborating medical report — a fact that favors Rose — the jury must decide whom to believe based on witnesses, none more important than the basketball player and his accuser.

Before calling a single witness, Rose’s lawyers have already planted seeds of doubt in the accuser’s story.

During cross-examination, she admitted to lying at least six times during her deposition or in text messages to Rose.

She also sent Rose five texts that day in August 2013 between 1:40 a.m. and 2:03 a.m., inviting him to her apartment and saying things such as “I need u” and “want u here.”

When Rose’s lawyer asked the accuser what she and Rose were going to do, she responded — in what has been described by trial-watchers as perhaps the least believable testimony to date — “Watch a movie or just [go] to sleep, communicate or talk.”

Then there’s the fact that she waited more than two years to report the incident to police — and only did so after her civil suit was filed.

Another factor in Rose’s favor is that the eight-member jury must be unanimous. During jury selection, one juror said she believed people might make up stories to get rich from celebrities.

Sometime later this week, the defense will call witnesses. One will be the woman’s “friend,” who a few weeks after the alleged incident bluntly asked the accuser if she was raped. Rose’s accuser responded, “No,’’ although she acknowledged she did sleep with the three men. Another “friend’’ has stated that the accuser mentioned “rape” only after she got mad at the basketball star for not paying her back for a sex belt.

Will this be enough to show that the woman legally consented to intercourse? That determination will be up to the jury in a matter of days.

Leading US sports lawyer Daniel Werly is managing editor of the sports legal Web site TheWhiteBronco.com, and professor of “Arbitration in Sports” at Charleston School of Law in South Carolina. He can be found on Twitter at @WerlySportsLaw.