There are moments that Oklahoma City Thunder traded in Offsen for Alex Caruso.
After the NBA finals at home against Indiana pacers, on Monday’s game 5, with the best-seven series made from 2–2, Caruso is as a reason as a reason because Thunder is two winning the first title after the first title of the franchise after going to Oklahoma City.
Caruso played in just 54 matches during the regular season, started just three, and once played 30 or more minutes.
But in Postsen, especially in this series, the presence of experienced guards has expanded.
Caruso has average 14.8 points in the series, 2.5 theft and an average of 29.5 minutes per game and when he is not in the early lineup, he is on the floor during late important conditions in close sports.
“He is a gamer,” Thunder star Shai Gilgas-Alexander said about Caruso. “You plug him anywhere, any lineup, feels like any group, he makes a difference. He makes all the people around him better. He is always talking. He always knows where we are going to be a second team.
“He has a tendency that is special. I don’t think you can teach such things. He just knows where the ball is going, where a rebound is jumping, how to get a deflection, steals on time. He is just a wonderful experience for sports and a crazy contestant.”
After not scoring more than 19 points during the regular session, Karuso has scored 20 points in the playoffs, including twice in the final.
In 7-9 shooting in Oklahoma City, he scored 7 points in a win of 111–104 in game 4 in Indianapolis.
Caruso said that his secret is coming every moment.
“I want to win,” said Caruso. “I don’t care if this training camp is (a) pickup (game) before the training camp. I don’t care that this game is 45, 50, before the all-star break. If it is final and you are below 2-1, I want to win. That’s what I am focused.”
Caruso is the only player on Thunder with the final experience before this season, which has been part of the 2020 title of Lakes.
While his roles are quite different, Pascal Siakam has added the same level of experience for pacers, which has been part of Toronto’s 2019 title.
Siakam said that Anubhav has helped him at this time.
“On the floor, I was one of those who went for us to go and get things, but out of court, I was three years old,” Siakam said. “We had a lot of veterans in our team who could ever imagine as a player. … I think around this time, just one of those who have been there or one of some people who have been there, and I am nine or 10 or whatever, it is as if I have more to say and I can say not only things, but I can also affect the floor.”
While the Thunder wants to build the speed after taking Indiaa out 12–1 in the last three minutes of the game 4, the pacers are trying to overcome the disappointing loss after giving a chance to remove the firm command of the series.
“The biggest thing is that you cannot give a spiral into two,” said Indiana star Tieres Heliberton. “You can’t disappoint that game and let it have a snowball effect. You have to be ready to go here for Game 5, again in a hostile environment. We are both two games away. Anything can happen. So you have to move forward as soon as possible.”
Thunder is in this position for the second time in Postsen, after four matches, after equaling 2–2, defeated Danver in seven matches in the second round.
“Two wins and you get work,” said Gilgus-Alexander. “That’s what I felt as I was focused in the Danver series and we were able to do so, and were doing the same thing for this series.”
Passers have not held this position in this postsen, who have led the three of their previous series 3–1 after four games.
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