{"id":114603,"date":"2026-03-19T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/caruso-and-the-curious-defense-with-the-shoe-tech-and-3-points-for-the-magic\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:55:10","slug":"caruso-and-the-curious-defense-with-the-shoe-tech-and-3-points-for-the-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/caruso-and-the-curious-defense-with-the-shoe-tech-and-3-points-for-the-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Caruso and the curious defense with the shoe: Tech and 3 points for the Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alex Caruso Vows to Never Wear the Shoe on Defense Again<\/h2>\n\n\nOklahoma City Thunder player Alex Caruso has stated that he learned his lesson: no more attempts to stop the ball with his shoe on defense.\n\nCaruso starred in a viral moment during Tuesday’s game against the Magic, attempting to use his detached shoe to block a layup by Tristan da Silva.\n\nCaruso was assessed a goaltending violation and a technical foul for an illegal defensive play.\n\n\n

As soon as I had my shoe in my hand, it came to mind to use it. Not in a malicious way, but as ‘Let me try to make a play to stop the ball’. It’s just one of those rare NBA plays that probably won’t happen again for another 10 years.<\/p>Alex Caruso<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe three points awarded after Caruso’s attempt were part of a 23-6 run by the Magic at the end of the second quarter, which helped them reduce the deficit to 51-50 at halftime. However, the Thunder (54-15) secured the victory with a score of 113-108, becoming the first NBA team to secure a playoff spot this season.\n\nCaruso, who finished with two points and eight rebounds and was the best on the team with a plus-19 in 24 minutes, assured that he will not try something like that again.\n\n\n

I had never been in that situation before. And I don’t know, it just came to me. I just thought I was going to block it, and honestly, I don’t know what I thought the referee’s decision would be. I didn’t know it would be goaltending and a technical foul. If I had known, I probably wouldn’t have done it because it’s three points.<\/p>Alex Caruso<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nShai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 40 points, extending his record streak to 129 games with 20 or more points, as the Thunder achieved their tenth consecutive victory.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alex Caruso Vows to Never Wear the Shoe on Defense Again Oklahoma City Thunder player Alex Caruso has stated that he learned his lesson: no more attempts to stop the ball with his shoe on defense. Caruso starred in a viral moment during Tuesday’s game against the Magic, attempting to use his detached shoe to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1390,586,104,913],"class_list":{"0":"post-114603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-alex-caruso","9":"tag-magic","10":"tag-playoffs","11":"tag-thunder"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}