Damian Lillard Postgame Press Conference | 2.9.24

Damian Lillard Postgame Press Conference | 2.9.24

I guess just for you guys what you I think it’s 17-point first quarter for them just what do you see defensively tonight I think we just you know our attention to detail how we helped each other we were just more physical um you know before the game you

Know it was just a a lot of conversation you know with our staff we was watching film and then doc was just like you know he just challenged us he he just checked us on you know what we said we want to do versus what what we’ve been doing and

It was just like you know to be a team that’s considered a contender and saying what we want to accomplish you know we got to start acting like it and uh I think that starts with us you know and it has nothing to do with anybody else

So it didn’t matter who we was playing tonight you know it was important for us to go out there and set the tone and you know start taking the steps to being who we who we see ourselves as and who we want to be and I thought that tonight

Was a good start but that first quarter was big I think Giannis gets a dunk and like a 10 out run it was on a steal that you had gotten on a couple switches just what did you like about executing those switches early on getting the pass and L

Being aggressive um I just like that we just being more disruptive um you know instead of having safe safe coverages and you know kind of allowing people to go A to B to C you know I think we’re just being more disruptive U finding

Creative ways to do it and um you know I think we’ve just embraced that part of it and um that’s it you know just being a little more aggressive and not allowing people to you know just move free and easy how’d you feel physically just getting back out there I felt good

Um you know I really wanted to played last night but um you know obviously I had missed the game against Phoenix um you know I probably should have sat versus Utah cuz I knew it was hurt my angle was hurt pretty bad um but it was

Just like if I already took those days you know let it get all the way all the way back in used last night as well and um it took to two minutes before the uh the deadline where I couldn’t play for me to be like all right I you know I sit

But um I felt I felt good you feel like you got in the Rhythm and more physically underneath yourself during that third quarter I think you had 15 points um I think as the game goes on you know I usually start to feel better

And better um in the first half I got a lot of a lot of looks that I likeed it just didn’t go in I think when you miss you miss some time and you get back out there it just takes a little bit to kind of get get your natural Rhythm and

Movements back down you know in the NBA game because it’s moving so fast but once I settled in it just I think as the game went on more I was on I just started to get more and more settled in be was 7 n for three-point line tonight

Just I mean it’s not the first time he on it probably won’t be the last but just what have you seen from him getting comfortable from 3point L um obviously he’s a sniper you know he makes him at a high high rate he’s been doing it all

Year and uh I think for our team we should we just got to recognize that when we get quality looks especially for him you know he’s going to knock him down and I think tonight the ball moves you know we play for each other and when

We do that the ball ends up it should and he benefit from that you know with the quality looks and getting opportunities and when you know our style is the way it was tonight he’ll get clean looks oh was that a sham got into a Smitty at at the end there by ta

It was it was that was it was nice too I mean he it was nice you called bees a sniper from long range how do you feel about Defending Your three-point title for the allstar game this year against him we teammates to the end but we

Teammates on that night I told him I was like this is going to be my fourth time doing it and um I’m interested to see how he handled like the the environment you know it’s not a typical basketball environment um you know I’ve seen a lot of people go up there and be

Uncomfortable just with the environment you know the music the not getting a good warmup you know you might you could be the first shooter you could be the six shooter you know what I mean you could be sitting there for 20 minutes and then you just got to go up there and

And shoot and you got all these celebrities that the right behind you talking and you know it’s just you up there so um I told him man I’m I’m banking on the pressure in the the environment to get to him so we see we see what you think of Pat’s energy much

I thought he he brought you know what he brings to the game you know he brought energy he brought Edge and um this experience you know it was times where he just kind of like directed action offensively just that you know happens over the course of the game you tell two

Guys do this and do that and it can be executed um defensively and the huddles you know he just um he knows who he is he knows what he brings to a team and um you know I think because of that he’s not shy about it you know you heard his

Voice the moment he he walked in

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