Damian Lillard Postgame Press Conference | 1.1.24

Damian Lillard Postgame Press Conference | 1.1.24

Um I guess just for you 3 for 16 tonight just what kind of contribut to you never found in a rhythm uh I mean I it’s part of the game you know I think that’s the first thing sometimes you just the ball doesn’t go in I thought

Tonight um as somebody who shoots the ball I felt like a lot they were all going in you know they felt good it wasn’t like the ball felt bad coming out of my hands um sometimes it goes that way I think um it’s just a it’s an

Adjustment you know in period for me sometimes I think um you just get you know in my career I’ve played the game with the ball you know so it’s easier to just have a a more natural Rhythm to the game and then I think now you know some Knights are

Just better than others you know when it comes to shooting the ball and being able to kind of manage and control the game as opposed to you know having stretches where I’m just off the ball you know and I’m shooting catch and shoot shots a lot more often you know so

You don’t really know I think you just you know the rhythm is just different into the game so I think you know that kind of makes it a little bit harder when you’re not fully used to it um and then you know like I said the other part

Of it is every shot that I shot I felt good about it just didn’t go in um against the Pacers do you feel that is that like feeling more pronounced like just with like the way that they’ve defended this year because it feels like you know tonight it’s we’re going to

Double the ball out of Jan’s hands right away and then it’s those Swing Swing moments he has 64 in one of the other games against the Pacers does it feel like that that the idea of like the Rhythm and being off ball more feel a bit more pronounced yeah I think more so

Against them um cuz sometimes they’re they’ve had games where they played them just one with one man you know so obviously you play him one-onone he’s going to score 60 points and I think the other one he had like 58 or something like that um so if they going

To play him one-on-one obviously he’s going to attack him you know what I mean um so yeah I think it is because of how they’ve defended you know it’s it’s probably more against them you know because they allow him to play one-on-one and um you know it’s just

It’s a different type of game you know I think that’s the way that their Scouting Report is against against him and against us I think it makes it more of that type of game what type of adjustments do you feel like your team needs to make for Wednesday especially

With you playing them for the first time on their Court this season U I think we got to limit their second and third opportunities um a team who scores as as well as they do you can’t give them multiple opportunities to score they going to score um

Control him in transition I think we talked about it the whole game it was like all right we can’t be crashing and messing around we got to get back you know they they push the ball up the floor they get into the paint they kick it out with threes they crash into the

Glass all over the place so um I would say just controlling the glass giving them one opportunity instead of two and three and um you know just getting back and and getting set and taking away their transition when they went on a run in the third quarter you were really

Vocal in the Huddle what was it that got you amped up like that um I was just saying you know we had multiple opportunities to extend our lead um where you know we up 10 up 12 and then we have a let down you know they get offensive rebound get a left or

Offensive rebound throw it out get a three or we foul and then we have a turnover and then we foul again and now it’s eight and six and then we go kind of playing that game uh so I was just saying like man this is you know this is

Not a team to play with um you know and I don’t think we were intentionally doing it but you got to you got to be able to recognize those things in the middle of the game and and kind of handle it so that you can you know build

That lead and you know maybe you get it up to 16 17 and you know they a little more discouraged instead of looking like man we right there and I think um you know they was able to get a couple shots to fall we missed and you know before

You know it’s a four-point game and now you got a ball game and we stopped making shots they started making shots and um you know when you’re not I guess disciplined and sharp and you don’t take care of business in those moments you can end up in the type of situation we

Ended up in and um against the right team that can get going like they can get going you can lose a game and we did

Dame Lillard speaks with media following Monday’s game.

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