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[Anderson] Alex Caruso on TNT, when asked about defending a star player and if he prefers a jumper or drive, “Depends how your team is built too, I played in Chicago and the last couple years we didn’t have the best rim protection like I did when I was in LA”



[Anderson] Alex Caruso on TNT, when asked about defending a star player and if he prefers a jumper or drive, “Depends how your team is built too, I played in Chicago and the last couple years we didn’t have the best rim protection like I did when I was in LA”

by aingenevalostatrade

31 Comments

  1. HibachiGrill

    We let this guy walk for the reverse-layup superstar in THT. Rob Pelinka is a certified shitstain GM

  2. outsidehere

    Really let him walk away for THT 🤦🏽‍♂️

  3. siddos_shenanigans

    Is this the Alex Caruso who wanted to take less to play in LA? And we turned him away for the dumb bitch who after signing the deal in LA, showed up to summer league with a gym bag pretending like he was on Varsity watching JV, when he should have been playing in summer league. And Caruso went on to the Bulls and is consistently mentioned as being a great one on one defender who we could have used in Denver. That Alex Caruso?

  4. StoneColdAM

    If Chicago blows it up, trading pieces for Caruso and Drummond (or DeMar) wouldn’t be a bad idea 

  5. IcyAuthor1

    dude about the same height as Draymond that’s crazy. We need AC size man

  6. I maintain that if AC stays on the Lakers, LA beats the Nuggets last year since Murray doesn’t go nuclear. Between losing AC/KCP, Pelinka is directly responsible for the Nuggets kicking Lakers ass. Considering, you know, KCP is on the team beating their ass now.

  7. tarnyarmy

    One of our biggest mistakes letting this guy walk

  8. CultExterminator

    That 2022 offseason was the worst case of asset management in Lakers history.

    – Letting Caruso walk even when he was willing to take a paycut. He was worth at least a draft pick. (1)
    – Giving THT an 30+mil contract for 3 years when nobody was even bidding on this guy.
    – Letting Schroder walk for nothing after you just traded Danny Green and a 1st rounder for him less than a year prior. Another draft pick down the drain (2).
    – Trading KCP, Kuzma, and another draft pick for Brick. The players themselves would have likely been worth 1+ picks on their own (4+)

    Then in the following season:
    – Trading another draft pick just to dump Westbrook (5+)
    – Trading THT and a 2nd rounder for Bev. Who you then let go.

    The Lakers essentially shat away 5+ draft picks worth of value to get Russ and then dump him. What a disasterclass in asset management.

  9. Js_On_My_Yeet

    A backcourt of AR and AC would have been so interesting to see

  10. LudwigNasche

    Reading Caruso and Ball talking about us makes me sad.

  11. No-Equipment-20

    Our FO legitimately does not value role players, they’re so focused on stars they neglect everyone around them

  12. I remember buying his jersey during the summer because I was so sure he was going to be here a while. Now it hurts to put it on 😮‍💨

  13. audioaxes

    Caruso and KCP guarding the perimeter with AD in the paint was killer and the front office threw that away like it was nothing

  14. Tetsuya-Naito

    We really let this dude go for some DJ Akademiks look alike.

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