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May 31, 2022 Post a Comment

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The flagrant foul Grayson Allen committed against Alex Caruso was bad plenty, but the Milwaukee Bucks are seemingly trying to add together common salt to the Chicago Bulls' wounds.

Allen, who has a long history of dirty plays, committed a flagrant foul – class 2 against Caruso in the Bucks' win over the Bulls on Friday night. The play which saw Allen yank Caruso down to the floor resulted in a fractured wrist for the latter.

He will exist out at least 6-8 weeks with the injury, per the team'due south official Twitter account.

Injury Update: Alex Caruso volition undergo surgery early next week and exist re-evaluated in 6-8 weeks after sustaining a fracture of his correct wrist in last night'south game versus the Milwaukee Bucks.

— Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) January 22, 2022

After the foul and ejection, Allen left the floor smirking.

According to Caruso, who spoke during the post-game presser, Allen never even checked on his well being after the foul. In instance you missed it, here'south a await at the play.

The Bulls and Bucks players had their problems, merely then the social media accounts got into the human activity.

The Bucks' Twitter Business relationship Has No Chill

Shockingly, the Bucks Twitter account showed no sensitivity for the fact that Caruso was injured on the play. The Bucks' Twitter account featured Allen in a tweet eating a donut.

The Bulls Twitter account only posted: "seriously?" as a response. The Bucks' tweet has been deleted, just Complex Sports captured the substitution.

The Bulls Talk Podcast called out the Bucks' odd tweet:

This tweet got them blocked:

The Bulls Talk podcast tweeted at onetime Bull and current Bucks big man Bobby Portis. The tweet asked Portis to "glimmer twice if you need assist."

Portis wasn't having it and he predictably showed his loyalty to his current franchise with his Spongebob-inspired response:

Still, y'all have to wonder what the person running the Bucks' Twitter account was thinking past posting the Allen-themed tweet on Saturday morning.

Tin can the Bulls Survive Their Current Injury Problems?

The Bulls play on the road against the Orlando Magic on Sunday and they will be without Lonzo Ball, Caruso, Javonte Green, Derrick Jones Jr. and Zach LaVine. That'southward a meaning function of their team and three or four active defenders.

Chicago has gotten good minutes from rookie guard Ayo Dosunmu and fifty-fifty Matt Thomas has filled in with some abrupt shooting over the past couple of games. Still, there is no escaping the void Chicago at present has in the backcourt.

The team re-signed Devon Dotson after Caruso'south injury was made official and his timeline was set. Chicago is going to need major contributions from Coby White during this time without Caruso and Ball. LaVine and Dark-green are expected back as early as Wednesday, but White must play better than he did in the loss against the Bucks.

Virtually everyone in the game struggled to make shots consistently. All the same, White's 3-for-15, 0-for-nine from three-signal-range performance in the 94-90 loss to the Bucks creates an insurmountable impediment for the Bulls to overcome without Ball and Caruso available.

Too, while he isn't a member of the backcourt, Nikola Vucevic is another Bulls who needs to elevate his performances. Vucevic has struggled with consistency shooting the basketball all season.

Vucevic is shooting 27% from three-point range in January. At that prune, he cannot call himself a stretch big man in the NBA. Chicago needs him to show the skills the team saw in him when they traded for him at the deadline last season.

If White and Vucevic enhance their games, Chicago should exist able to weather the injury tempest without falling out of the Top 6 in the Eastern Conference.

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