Blazers @ Warriors 01/11/2013, 7:30 PM (PST) - GAME THREAD

warriors announcers are absolutely gushing over lillard in the postgame!

 

QFT.

 

C'mon mags - you should know by now that I don't troll, I just say it like I see it. I don't wear Rose Garden tinted glasses.

 

I didn't expect Portland to win this game, but it's sad, because we would have won of the rest of the team just played a half way decent game. Way to squander an epic game by Lillard.

 

THE LILLARD WARS

 

Well, they do have to walk to their cars after the game....

 

Oh - and even though we all knew it ended a while back, the RoY race is over. The league knows by now.

 

This is trolling. And during that stretch, you had many just like this.

 

I think we can all agree that KingSpeed needs to stop going to games, forever.

 

yeah guys but lillard is 22, so he will only improve for 6 years before his prime

 

All year long I've thought Lillard was playing well within himself. While everyone is praising his poise and team play, I have been thinking he can do more. My suspicion is that he has been holding back because he is a rookie and wants to be viewed as a team player. It's intriguing to me that his best game of the year comes in his hometown of Oakland, where he wants to do well in front of family & friends. I think it's cool that Lillard is trying to be a team oriented guy, but performances like this just show how good he will be once he takes the "rookie" gloves off!

 

Crazy that Lillard is probably a better player as a rookie than Roy

 

I don't know, Anthony Davis had 0 reb and 0 blocks tonight, it'll be close..

 

I've said the same thing

That said, I don't necessarily want to see Lillard have these kind of games often. I'd rather see him setting other players up and making it easier for his teammates to score.

When his teammates don't have it though (like tonight), then he can go ahead and dominate.

 

Lillard took over the scoring because it was pretty clear hardly anybody else had it tonight, the fact that he's a conscientious distributor that looks to play within a team concept, but has it in him to shoulder the scoring load when needed is pretty great. That said, I don't want him to become a score-first point guard just because he puts a few miles under his shoes in the league; I think that would be a huge mistake for him to try shoot 20+ on a regular basis.

 

BTW Lillard, you just knew he had this in him. Great to finally see him just going ham in an NBA game and being able to take over. That's a big step for his psyche, especially doing it on this big stage (at home). I look forward to seeing this throughout his career

 

A.D. is garbage. They should trade him to us while they still can.

 

Guess it depends on whether or not you want the Blazers to keep their draft pick this year or not?