He became a cult player in the NBA for this very reason: Alex Caruso plays every possession to the fullest, never backing down. From “kamikaze”, one would say, always ready to sacrifice his own body. And in fact he ended up sacrificing him, especially during his first season in the Bulls jersey: problems with a wrist, ankle and a hamstring injury only in the first part of the season, before the fallaccio of Grayson Allen KO’d him for real by fracturing his right wrist. Caruso the indestructible, however, returns to the field for the playoffs, but in game-4 against Milwaukee he suffers a concussion and must watch the fifth and final game of the series (and of the Chicago season) from the bench. “Because of this in the summer I worked to get physically strongerput on a few pounds of muscle, strengthen my back “, says the person concerned. Because the concern of the Bulls is that the style of play of their No. 6 brings with it too high a risk of injury and ends up being harmful to the team and to the player himself, who has missed 41 of 82 games last season (the exact half), e only 22 of those 41 following a wrist fracture.
“Less is more”: the choice of Dalen Terry as an alternative
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It is no coincidence that Chicago chose a high energy defender like Dalen Terryperhaps also to relieve Caruso a little from the pressure of a role defensive “mastiff” which caused some problems. More important still than playing every possession, in fact, is being able to be on the pitch to play them – and the Bulls have seen too many injuries jeopardize their season: “We couldn’t show our full potential. The absences – above all that of Lonzo [Ball] – they have compromise the balance and the chemistry of our roster. I remain convinced that we are an excellent team, with the chance to really do it something special“. Word of Caruso.
