Alex Caruso’s postseason has turned into a three-point outlier. He is shooting 47.7% from deep this playoffs, up from 29.3% during the regular season, a leap that has him on pace for the biggest regular-season-to-playoffs jump in NBA history among players with at least 50 attempts in both.
That is why Caruso OKC is drawing attention now: the number is not a hot week or a short burst, but a playoff sample large enough to matter. The 18.4% rise from his regular-season mark gives the surge real weight, and it has come as Oklahoma City keeps leaning on his shot-making in the postseason.
The contrast is what makes the run stand out. Caruso spent the regular season as a 29.3% three-point shooter, a figure that would usually describe a guard teams are willing to leave alone, then entered the playoffs hitting nearly half his attempts. In a league that tracks shooting splits closely, the gap between those two numbers is large enough to alter how defenses have to account for him.
The historical comparison raises the bar even higher. The pace only matters because it is being measured against other players who have taken at least 50 three-point attempts in both the regular season and the playoffs, which keeps the sample from being a fluke on either side. If Caruso holds anywhere near this level the rest of the way, the postseason will not just be a strong shooting stretch; it will become the benchmark.
For now, the open question is whether he can keep it there. Caruso has already done the part that turns a stat into a storyline, and the rest of the postseason will decide whether this is a temporary spike or the rare playoff run that ends with a place in the record book.
