Damian Lillard Postgame Press Conference | 1.13.24

Damian Lillard Postgame Press Conference | 1.13.24

H starting to play more minutes um just what have you kind of seen from him as he’s gotten more comfortable um I think you’re just starting to see the game slow down for him a little bit um at first you know he’s always brought the energy the effort but you starting to

See him make um good basketball plays you know within that um he’s just not as sped up when you get more experience you get more opportunity the game start to slow down for you and you starting to see it slow down a little bit for him um

How much does it mean when it’s not just like a bundle of energy like it is actually like the basketball players that have you know the connection to you guys uh well I think for us obviously you know we’re we’re not old but we’re older than he is you know we’ve been

Around this league for a while um so like that natural young energy that he plays with is just different you know it it brings something different uh to the game uh so when you can blend that with um him being able to see the game and at a

Slower Pace as well it it changes the game for us you know he’s able to have a an even greater impct on the game um because it’s not just energy and sometimes activity without achievement you know when it’s just young players running around and fouling and you know

Anything can happen out there you know it could be good or it could be bad sometimes so when the game slows down and he’s able to have impact like he did in a game like tonight um you start to see um how he can really help the team

We’ve talked a lot about how the way that you know the younger NBA moves is just so different in what ways do you feel like you and your fellow vets have maybe learned a little bit of something I don’t know if learns the right word but something from the players like Dre

Uh like Chris Etc uh I think when you when you play with the the pace that a lot of younger teams play at um you find a lot of a lot more opportunity um without having to do as many things as you would have to do if this the game

Was slower Pace you know you you can kind of catch teams off guard the defense isn’t always set um it’s hard to keep up with when you playing at that pace um so especially when you can do it and you can be organized and you can be

Um I guess intentional you know you can play fast but not out of control it can be hard to deal with I think n you guys hit 19 of 27 shots in the fourth quarter for that 46-point quarter that that was pretty efficient offense and and play

Right there is that just your connection that you guys are getting I just think that that just shows our ability um you know we have the kind of Talent on this team that we can have stretches like that I think for us is um understanding the beauty of having that

But also not um leaning on that too much you know cuz not it’s not often that you’re going to be able to go into a quarter and say all right we going to make 19 field goals right um out of 27 or whatever it is you know that’s um

That doesn’t happen often you know no matter how good you are so I think um like it speaks to what we’re capable of but it’s not something that we want to lean on to win a game also if you seen the defense uh play better Celtics in

This game yeah um you know we’ve we’ve put a few Gam GES together where we play better defensively um but we still got to we got to be able to sustain it you know and establish a much better identity on that end of the floor um and I think you

We’ve shown that we can do it in stretches but now we got to make that um who we are much more consistently

Damian Lillard speaks with media following the Bucks’ victory over the Golden State Warriors.

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