'Game changer' Caruso hailed for history-making performance against Jokic

SGA and Chet Holgren heaped praise on Alex Caruso's historic game 7 performance against Nikola Jokic.

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00:00Obviously extremely impressive.

00:02He's somebody who's kind of been through the ringer,

00:04and he's seen every type of player that there is out there,

00:08and he knows what type of player Jokic is,

00:13and he did a great job of kind of playing to his advantages.

00:17He was scrappy.

00:18He was using his speed and his pace to kind of keep Jokic

00:25kind of from feeling comfortable and knowing where he was and stuff,

00:28so credit to him.

00:29He's a game-changer.

00:31Without him, the game looks completely different.

00:35He's a player that understands the moment

00:38and controls what he can control,

00:40and he does that at a very high level.

00:43Nobody does that at a higher level than him

00:45than I've ever played with.

00:47He is always in the moment.

00:49He's always figuring out how to change the game

00:52and better the team,

00:54and it doesn't matter if it's a Tuesday in February

00:57and New Orleans or if it's a game seven tonight.

00:59He's given his 100% attention, energy,

01:03and I think that's what's made him the NBA player he's become.

01:09To have a guy like that on your team, it's special.

01:12It raises the level of everybody else when you see him

01:14just leading like that in that example.

01:18He's obviously a big reason why we're as good as we are

01:20as a basketball team.