What did Alex Caruso actually supply in 2017-18 for LAL?
Alex Caruso's strongest evidenced functions are passing, creation, event creation; the weakest available areas are interior finishing, shooting, rim protection. The profile is tied to LAL for 2017-18.
Medium Mixed Coverage324,910 observed minutes
Function profile
Directly observed offensive and defensive functions — separate readings, never a grade.
9 of 9 — complete
Career arc
Stabilized impact across governed seasons — a trend line, not a career grade. Hollow points mean evidence unavailable.
Lineup context
Exact five-player context with honest sample strength.
OKC · 2024-25Small lineup sample204 possessions
Alex Caruso, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Luguentz Dort, Chet Holmgren, Jalen Williams produced 110.3 offense and 119.1 defense over 204 possessions (-2.6 shrunk net). All five function profiles are exact to this franchise-season.
CHI · 2023-24Rotation-size lineup sample898 possessions
DeMar DeRozan, Nikola Vucevic, Alex Caruso, Coby White, Ayo Dosunmu produced 105.6 offense and 112.8 defense over 898 possessions (-4.7 shrunk net). All five function profiles are exact to this franchise-season.
CHI · 2023-24Small lineup sample423 possessions
DeMar DeRozan, Nikola Vucevic, Zach LaVine, Alex Caruso, Coby White produced 104.3 offense and 114.1 defense over 423 possessions (-4.5 shrunk net). All five function profiles are exact to this franchise-season.
CHI · 2023-24Small lineup sample
Contract & salary
Season rows under the serving definition; provisional status sits beside the amount.
Body & injury history
Every governed medical episode, mapped to the body. Evidence about the player — never a team decision or a durability grade.
1Right quadriceps1Right hand
+ Injury
Acquisition history
How he arrived at each team — fit, role realization and price stay separate lanes.
withheld: falsesalary rows: 24resolved player: trueseason profiles: 9medical episodes: 2lineup rows returned: 12current acquisition signal count: 0current acquisition date unresolved count: 0actual nba minutes required for season profiles: true
+Supporting relations (7)
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Creation
72
Rim pressure
54
Shooting*
47
Passing
72
Screening*—
Interior finish
46
Point of attack*—
Switch coverage*—
Rim protection
48
Event creation
66
Rebounding
50
* limited evidence. A dash means the evidence was insufficient — not a zero. The radar plots only scored functions; missing axes are marked with a dash, never drawn at zero.
Performance lanes
Three separate lanes — never merged into one number.
On/Off
+2.3 net per 100
on +0.5 · off -1.8 · 1,016 possessions
RAPM (single season)
+0.0 per 100
2,040 possessions
Stabilized RAPM
+0.0 per 100
O +0.0 / D +0.0 · 0 season history
Season summaries are retrospective descriptions, not causal player-value estimates.
290 possessions
DeMar DeRozan, Nikola Vucevic, Alex Caruso, Coby White, Patrick Williams produced 115.9 offense and 111.7 defense over 290 possessions (1.5 shrunk net). All five function profiles are exact to this franchise-season.
CHI · 2022-23Rotation-size lineup sample545 possessions
DeMar DeRozan, Patrick Beverley, Nikola Vucevic, Zach LaVine, Alex Caruso produced 113.8 offense and 104.4 defense over 545 possessions (4.9 shrunk net). 1 player function profile(s) are full-season multi-franchise aggregates; exact lineup performance remains valid, while those function attributions are season-level and caveated.
CHI · 2022-23Small lineup sample375 possessions
DeMar DeRozan, Nikola Vucevic, Zach LaVine, Alex Caruso, Patrick Williams produced 116.8 offense and 111.4 defense over 375 possessions (2.3 shrunk net). All five function profiles are exact to this franchise-season.
CHI · 2022-23Small lineup sample190 possessions
Nikola Vucevic, Zach LaVine, Alex Caruso, Patrick Williams, Ayo Dosunmu produced 116.3 offense and 115.6 defense over 190 possessions (0.2 shrunk net). All five function profiles are exact to this franchise-season.
CHI · 2022-23Small lineup sample186 possessions
DeMar DeRozan, Nikola Vucevic, Zach LaVine, Alex Caruso, Ayo Dosunmu produced 112.3 offense and 105.4 defense over 186 possessions (1.9 shrunk net). All five function profiles are exact to this franchise-season.
showing 8 of 12 lineup rows returned by the route
* hatched bars are provisional or scheduled figures, not canonically resolved cap hits.
Season
Kind
Amount
Status
2016-17
cap hit
$50K
canonical
2017-18
cap hit
$77K
canonical
2018-19
cap hit
$77K
provisional
2019-20
cap hit
$2.75M
canonical
2020-21
cap hit
$2.75M
canonical
2021-22
cap hit
$8.60M
canonical
2021-22
player salary
$8.60M
provisional
2022-23
cap hit
$9.03M
canonical
2023-24
cap hit
$9.46M
canonical
2024-25
cap hit
$9.89M
provisional
2025-26
cap hit
$18.1M
canonical
2025-26
player salary
$18.1M
provisional
2026-27
cap hit
$19.6M
provisional
2027-28
cap hit
$21.0M
provisional
2028-29
cap hit
$22.4M
provisional
right right quadriceps contusion
Nov 30, 2025 → Dec 22, 2025
+ Injuryright concussionOct 22, 2025 → back Nov 17, 2025
Marker size and count reflect governed episode volume only; a pulsing ring means an episode is open at this knowledge date. This maps evidence — it is not a durability score.
