Damian Lillard Postgame Press Conference | 12.23.23

Damian Lillard Postgame Press Conference | 12.23.23

Uh just for you guys a pretty balanced scoring effort tonight just see from the level of comfort you guys had in here tonight um I think it’s you know us just growing as a group you know you uh you put a lot of really good players together it takes

Time to jail and to get to know each other um and just to make things work for everybody um and early in the season I just kept saying you know it’s good that we learning and we winning at the same time and I think now you’re

Starting to see us win in a a different type of way because because we starting to get to know each other a little better we getting more comfortable and um you know it’s it’s just different you know when you can communicate a little differently um you know what somebody likes you know

What somebody wants uh and you know how to make it work for everybody a little bit so we just continuing to get better and U I think a game like tonight shows there’s that spot in the second quarter and then again at the start of the fourth quarter where you and Yiannis are

Sitting next to each other on the bench and Chris is the one kind of the show what does it meant for you to see go up during those moments I mean it’s a it’s a luxury um you know I think that’s a sign of being on a a really good team is

When you can have you know your best players on the bench or you know not all of your best players on the floor and you know guys can come in and just get the job done um not just keeping the league but the league going up you know

Us kind of pulling away on teams and uh having a lot of vets on our our team a lot of guys would experience um guys that are connected um you know that those types of things can happen on the floor when you had that type of group so

Um like I said it’s a luxury and uh I think it just shows our growth as a team what is it about this match you guys look are comfortable against um I don’t I don’t think it’s about as much about the match up as it

Is about us um you know I think we we saw him early it was a back and forth game and then we saw him again uh you know before went to Vegas for the plan we was a little bit better and I think tonight you know was probably our best

You know and they they’ve just seen us at different stages of the Season you know as far as who we are as a team and um I think right now we’re at at our best you know as far as this season goes and um I think it shows in our

Performances but I don’t think it’s about comfort you know they’re a great team um they got guys that can fill it up um you know they got a really good record theyve won a lot of games so I don’t think it’s about us being comfortable with them as much as it is

About our our growth as a team in general you feels like a guys about to play them for the fourth time uh you know next day you got you played a couple times play the bullets a couple times I don’t know if to you it feels

Like you playing the same teams but when you play all these teams in like a short amount of time like this play the same team uh does it change anything does it feel like as you know intensity or familiarity with each other when you play so soon stacked over CH each other

Like this uh kind of U I think for this situation specifically when you play a team twice in a row is usually a little harder to to win to win twice in such a short amount of time especially on the road um but but for me I’ve been in the

Western Conference my whole career so playing against these teams like this to me is like Still Still new you know so it doesn’t feel like for them it probably feels like we seen these dudes too much but I don’t I haven’t seen them this much so for me is it feels normal

When when you see you guys are getting familiar with each other Dame how does that sort of manifest itself on the court like in a game like this as opposed to six weeks ago what what’s different uh I just think time and uh also experiences you know we’ve had our

Our moments of frustration um as individuals and as a team you know where we expect better from ourselves uh you know guys coming into a new situation like myself um you know Chris and Yannis me being new to them um you know it’s normal for us all to have moments

Of frustration you know because you want things to be able to work for everybody but it might not be going how you want it to go um or what in a comfortable way for you and uh we just kept we just kept working through it you know we didn’t

Separate we just kept trying to find Solutions and um the same for for us just as a group you know trying to get used to a new coaching staff and everything we’ve just kept every day we don’t we don’t come in and let things kind of keep rolling we come in and we

Try to find answers and we uh try to improve and you know we not ignoring things we’ve addressed everything you know our struggles at times defensively uh our struggles at times offensively you know what’s going to work for for Chris what’s going to work for Yiannis how do we space the floor

What’s going to work for me you know how do we uh improve our defense what works for Brook defensively what works for him offensively what do we got to do in our second group like these are conversations that we just straight up had been having you know through the

Wins and um I think because of that we’ve been able to to really grow and become the team that we are now we still got got a ways to go

Dame Lillard speaks with media following Saturday’s game.

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