Damian Lillard Postgame Press Conference | 12.29.23

Damian Lillard Postgame Press Conference | 12.29.23

I think it’s 24 points for you in the second half just when you pick up a third foul and don’t get to play as much as you normally do in the first half is it in your head like all right second half like I really got to bring it or

Kind of how does that like mindset go no I was just I was just pissed off honestly um you know I still didn’t want to come out the game but sometimes coaches got to save you from yourself you know obviously in my head I’m like all right I’m going to be careful but

You know you never know what can happen out there uh so I was just you know upset at just the situation but um I always tell y’all i’ I’ve experienced this before and um as upset as I was you know it wasn’t something I was

Unfamiliar so I knew that I was I was going to be fresh you know I wasn’t tired I didn’t feel worn down from the game yet and um it was a tight game and I knew that I would would need to come out and be aggressive um and find a way

To to get something done and that was that was my mentality just you and jannis playing that Twan game I know as you said on the screen a little bit tonight kind of getting some of that just what that chemistry feel like tonight uh I mean it was just what we

Communicated um it’s a play that we’ve G over in our five don’t know a lot but we haven’t run it a lot in the game and um once I started to go a little bit I was like I don’t want to be in front of the

Defense but I want to be involved in the action so me and him kind of communicated at first it was like him and Brooke and then to me and then he was just like all right I’m going to come straight to you start low and we

Kind of just talked it out and uh we was able to be effective doing it coach mention how you didn’t in that in that that second half and how you attacked inside the paint just how was that interior attack helping you guys kind of flip the script there in that third

Quarter uh I mean anytime you can put pressure on the rim it’s going to open everything up because they you know they were aggressive on the ball and when you’re that aggressive on the ball if you can get a get past that and get into the paint it’s going to require them to

Have to help you know and leave guys and then you just make the right plays from there and um I thought we was able to break them down inside out and when you can do that to a team um you know you going to have your way and I thought we

Did a much better job of that in the second half mean to finally stack some wins together on the road I think five and five up until this point to go three in one on a longer road trip uh you know just to finally maybe get over that a

Little bit on the road yeah I think it’s just our team is growing you know I think uh as time goes by we get more and more familiar with each other um we experienc some turbulence early in the season so now you know we kind of

Getting our feet in the ground a little bit you know we establishing ourselves finding identity and um I think it shows in these types of situations you know tonight at one point I think it was like a 15-point game and it was like I didn’t feel panick you know it I remember a

Game in Toronto that felt similar to that a little bit I was like man this one probably over you know what I mean we probably not going to come back in this one but tonight in our huddles it was calm you know obviously we addressed some things in the huddles at locker

Room at halftime we did but I didn’t feel panicked you know we had a we had a different type of composure about us and um we embraced the kind of challenge that was in front of us and um we we showed who who we’re becoming you know

By coming out and having that type of effort hey um good performance tonight and I wanted to ask you you’ve talked about frustration previously expecting better from your guys um how did that show tonight when being down for most part of the game and how do you come

Back to ultimately win a game like this um I think my frustration was the same as everybody else with you know just in our our performance as a team you know I wouldn’t say I was frustrated with my guys I don’t think I ever said that but

I I just think it’s it’s part of the experience you know what I mean like I said we we’re growing as a team and you need these types of experiences sometimes you going to have uh adversity you’re going to struggle sometimes you got to find a way to complete the game

You got to find a way to get back into it and get get the job done um it’s going to happen more you know throughout the the rest of the season we’re going to have more games like this and um I think getting one done against a good

Team on their home floor it’s going to be good for us going forward

Dame Lillard speaks with media following Friday’s game.

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