With Fridays 129-102 loss to Devin Booker and the Phoenix Suns, the Bulls have now dropped eight of their last 10 games.
With the Suns ahead 61-48, head coach Billy Donovan tweaked his first unit to start the third quarter, insertingin place of Javonte Green to start the second half and immediately matching Caruso with Booker.
Caruso had a couple of nice sequences defending Booker in isolation at the end of the first half and beginning of the third quarter, but ultimately, the Bulls couldn’t stop the bleeding. Phoenix won the third quarter 34-24 to secure their stranglehold on the contest, but Booker's six points in that frame were augmented by 10 from Deandre Ayton and seven from Mikal Bridges.
Worse, although Phoenix dragged its 3-point percentage to 44 by the end of the contest, it wasn’t simply a case of the Suns’ shooting at an infernal level. The dribble-penetration of their lead ball-handlers — Booker and Cameron Payne — was again an issue, and the Bulls sent them to the free-throw line 26 times as a team .
All of which is to say: While Caruso, who isn't playing at 100 percent, has had solid moments, he was never going to be enough to fix the Bulls’ defensive woes on his own. The Kings, Jazz and Suns combined to average 122 points per game and shoot 51.4 percent during the Bulls’ 0-3 road trip.
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