He had 24 against Houston.... 21 against San Antonio. He dropped 10 dimes against Dallas. Not sure what you guys want from the kid.
I LOVE DAME on offense. His defensive liabilities were obvious tonight, though, and thankfully Batum could step up and defend Lawson in the second half.
Lillard knows that he needs to work on his defense. That was his focus this off season. He's improved some but he knows he still has a ways to go. This is just his second year in the league. The fact that his defense *has* improved from the work he put in this off season is encouragement that he'll get even better next year.
Lawson would expose A LOT of point guards. The guy is ridiculously fast. Batum gave him fits because he's long enough to counter his quickness. Foye was just hitting stupid shots. That isn't on Dame. He got hot and he made a few lucky threes. Nothing to worry about.
Let me know who we're allowed to post threads about in the future. Reggie Jackson ripped Dame a new asshole, and Stotts had to move Batum onto Lawson tonight, in what was a brilliant coaching move. Is it too much to ask Lillard to play at least a little bit of defense?
If Lawson abused every PG, he'd be league MVP and an auto All-Star. Why did Stotts move Batum to defend Lawson? Was it because he got sick of watching Lawson make lucky drives right to the rim?
Foye and Lawson went 8-21 that is 38% that is a pretty damn good percentage. Batum also shot 1-5 from the field tonight and is averaging under 10 points a game in January. Face facts we do not have a Lebron on this team all of our players have a weakness but that is what the team is for to cover up for each other.
FYI Reggie Jackson went 7/18 shooting 38% from the field with 5 assists if he ripped Dame a new ass hole it must be the smallest in the universe.
Hey look 38% seems to be a trend, but then again I guess it must be Lillard's defense that allowed KD to drop 46 points or allowed Parsons to go for 31 with 7 assists.
I just didn't see any improvement at all tonight, and I think it rattled Dame enough to impact the rest of his game. It's a bit worrisome to me. It seems he's quick enough to defend, and he doesn't need to be the primary option on offense.
I'd much rather see Dame be more aggressive, or just finish better. Check the graph. Pretty alarming. Lawson is there too, pretty elite. There's a reason Dame had issues today.
I was in the game thread starting at Post 57 at 8:12. Your first post was 1/2 hour later. The first time I responded to you was around post 390 when you said Damian didn't take a shot b/c he was shell-shocked from being torched, and I responded that since the torcher was 3-8 then perhaps it might've been b/c a defender was closing out quickly on him. At that point, the sarcasm and attacks began. It's all good, we're all big boys here, and I know you don't like evidential proof that goes against what you post, but at least try to be consistent and/or factual when you talk about something I've said or done. Thanks.
I love Lillard as the PG of the Blazers and want this team to grow with him. He needs to grow a bit too, though. He's a great player on offense, and hopefully having Batum take over for him on defense lights a fire on him. Without Batum tonight defending Lawson in the second half, I'm not sure how the Blazers win this game.
Dude, you are Rainman. Isn't it time to start another thread about LMA's jump shots? 11 a game ... definitely ... 11 a game.
He's young. Players go into a funk every once in awhile. I'm not concerned. There is still parts of his game he needs to address in the offseason. I see what you're doing here with all this Lillard stuff.
