Caruso: I was exhausted after the tiebreak, and the entire game against Jokic caused the G1 in the Western Conference Finals to fail to recover

Recently, Thunder guard Caruso reviewed the tiebreak battle with the Nuggets when participating in the podcast program "Pardon My Take".

Talking about the challenges facing Jokic against him, Caruso said: "I'll tell you the truth. I was exhausted after the tiebreak. That was the most exhausting time I had during the entire playoffs. Before entering the G1 against the Timberwolves, I definitely didn't - I didn't recover enough between 25-30 minutes against Jokic and G1 against the Timberwolves. Fortunately, our team was excellent, so I was only 85% to 90% of my form. But yes, I was exhausted.

"This is one of the things you use your adrenaline to do, for example, I told you that before the first game against the Grizzlies, I had too much adrenaline, and that was almost a negative thing. But in that tiebreak, we had two days and one game before that, and then we could rest for two days, prepare for the tiebreak and recover our strength. So the whole game, I thought, ‘I’ll die on this field if I need it. ’Fatiguness will not be the reason why we didn’t win. But we had one or two rounds to defend him, and we were lucky. We had a great team defense. There were some rounds I was going around to defend him and stuck his lower set. I didn’t know how much his official weight was, but this guy was as strong as an offensive defensive player (NFL player type), and I just couldn’t stand him. ”