Kerry Eggers Lillard Interview

AND on top of that, there are no back-to-back playoff games, and very few one day apart (maybe even none now).

 

YOU AND ME BOTH. I even said it on here.

"This has to be talk." "Damn, he's really good."

But he shut me up. He's so consistently genuine that at this point that there's no way he could be faking this for 4 years. When I hear his post game interviews it doesn't sound like canned answers... it just sounds like he's having a conversation. Watch the ones he does with Barrett... it just sounds like he's sitting on a deck somewhere with a lemonade and shootin' the shit.

Nothing about him seems fake.

 

Check this out. Steph Curry does this sensory deprivation tank thing that sounds legit.

http://www.mensjournal.com/health-f...-steph-currys-basketball-superpowers-20151214

 

I find it admirable. He'll be fine for the playoffs. 2 games in 10 days plus the time after that game. He knows what he's doing.

Do you honestly think he's not going to give it his all in the playoffs? That's ludicrous. He'll be fine.

 

Kerry Eggers is the best writer in Oregon for 2 reasons:

1) He knows how to stay with the subject, both literally and figuratively.

2) He's not Canzano.

 

I think he'll give it his all for sure, its not an effort question. It's a question of working smarter not harder. It's a question of having an athlete at his peak condition.

There's a reason cyclists train to peak for one race a year, and ramp up their training for that one time of the season. The human body can't go 100% all the time. If you try someone else will be able to rest and outperform you when it counts the most. I question how fatigue'd he'll be from the grueling marathon of a regular season. Playing 40 minutes in a back to back we have no chance of winning as we did in San Antonio. Those games add up.

Dame prides himself on playing every night. I'd rather he prides himself on being in tip top condition at the end of the year. If that means taking some games off? So be it.

 

We'll see. I have no doubts, though.

 

YES! His interviews are the best in the game, maybe some of the best Blazer interviews of all time. You notice how he lets Mike ask like five questions instead of the usual three? He wants to sit and talk shop. He's pure basketball.

 

That's just a cover story for the team carrying the Sleep Chamber that works with his Kryptonian physiology.

 

THat's just embarrassing.

 

This is my favourite part.

Everyone being accountable to everyone. I believe that this is the key to success in team sports in this day and age. I also believe that the key to sustained success is spreading this culture to the whole organisation; so that it continues when individuals leave.

 

Tribune: Can you see yourself as a career-long Blazer?

Lillard: That’s the plan. I’ve never been a fan of switching up, in any way. I don’t switch friends. I don’t switch my circle. I like the same things. People get on me about it all the time: “Are you ever going to eat at different restaurants? Are you ever going to try something new?”