Draymond Inexperienced has defined why Alex Caruso, not Chet Holmgren, is the Thunder’s third-most-important participant behind Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Jalen Williams.
“After I have a look at this OKC crew, I really assume the third-most-important participant is Alex Caruso …. I believe Caruso is so necessary to what they do and I really feel such as you by no means recreation plan for him,” Inexperienced mentioned on The Draymond Inexperienced Present. “So since you don’t recreation plan for him, he comes into these Finals and he goes loopy. However the actuality is, he’s a champion, so he really is aware of what to anticipate.”
He went on to say that Indiana needs to be focussing extra on stopping the 2020 champion than somebody with extra to show, like Holmgren.
“If I’m an opposing coach, I’m saying ‘Caruso’s been on this second, he’s proven us over and over he can ship on this second, I’m going to make him so necessary to our recreation plan,” Inexperienced defined. “I’m going to make much less of an significance in our recreation plan to the man who hasn’t accomplished it’ …
“Place that guess on the man that hasn’t accomplished it, and Chet hasn’t accomplished it. I do know Caruso can beat me, he’s proven he can beat me at a number of completely different factors. Again then when he received a championship he confirmed you he can beat you. So I’m simply unsure that will be the guess that I might be making.”
Inexperienced added, “He’s so necessary to all the things they do,” Inexperienced added. “Defensively, he’s so necessary to all the things they do. Offensively, he could be one other man that may deal with the ball that’s sensible, that makes choices, that’s going to shoot the best photographs, not take the improper photographs.”
Caruso has been a menace on the court docket. Throughout his first two video games he has scored the identical quantity of factors because the Pacers finest, Tyrese Haliburton (31 factors).
Anticipate a lot of the identical from Caruso in Sport 3.
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