“The villain is here” Bulls fans vigorously boo Grayson Allen after returning to Chicago, injuring Alex Caruso
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To nothing unexpected, Milwaukee Bucks guard Grayson Allen was invited with an ensemble of boos from Chicago Bulls fans during Friday night’s matchup at the United Center. Allen was suspended for one game in late January after his glaring 2 fouls sent Bulls guard Alex Caruso crashing to the floor. Caruso experienced a broken right wrist and has not gotten back to the court since the incident.
Allen began Friday’s down and was the subject of the Bulls fans’ fury each time he contacted the ball. He was subsequently entertained by boos when he inquired into the game with a little more than six minutes left in the subsequent quarter.
Grayson Allen is no stranger to such allegations
Allen is no more odd to allegations of filthy play. He was suspended during his senior season at Duke in 2017 after his third incident of tripping a rival. The one-game suspension he got from the NBA after the hard foul on Caruso was met with much analysis, and Bulls focus Tristan Thompson, who was not an individual from the group at the hour of the foul, voiced his opinion heading into Friday night’s matchup.
“S–t. Take one of my dogs out like that, we’re gonna have issues,” Thompson said on Thursday. “You gotta set the tone. That’s what Bulls basketball is about, setting the tone. What he did affected one of our guys, and I don’t think anyone should forget about that.”
Thompson’s words struck a chord in the second from last quarter when Bulls’ forward Derrick Jones Jr. was given an outrageous foul subsequent to elbowing Allen in the head on a baseline drive.
“Y’all trying to make it something it ain’t. It’s basketball,” Jones said of his foul on Allen after the game. “I’m not a dirty player. What happened in Milwaukee, we didn’t like it. But I’m not going to go out there and try to take a man out.”
Caruso rehearsed last week, when Bulls mentor Billy Donovan said he anticipated that the guard should require essentially a couple more weeks to develop his fortitude. Entering Friday night, Chicago had gone 11-8 since Allen’s blatant foul sidelined Caruso, with the association’s 26th-positioned protective rating. Before the injury, the Bulls were 28-17, and their protection was positioned seventeenth.
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