Led by 7 points 5 minutes from the end of the third quarter, the Blazers received the coup de grace on a muscular two-take from Caleb Martin and Jimmy Butler. Wedged between the two Floridian blades, Damian Lillard came out limping, hit in the right leg, more precisely in the calf must. We had already seen him limp on a previous shoot…
So at 22 points, Lillard headed straight for the locker room. After the match, he explained that he already felt his calf more tense than usual during the warm-up, then in the first half.
“It was nothing that worried me too much”Lillard said on ESPN. “I just knew it was useless to keep going and trying to insist in the fifth game of the season. Honestly, if it had been a playoff game, I would have kept playing. It would have been tense and uncomfortable but I could have played. That gives you an indication of my level of concern…”
At 30 points or more from his first 4 outings this season and voted Player Of The Week, Lillard was on his way to reaching his thirties again, with a quarter to go.
Returning after an injury-plagued season, Portland’s star point guard is in all likelihood set to miss the next game, the Young Rockets reception, to rest… and why not, head to the Pacific Coast, where he recently revealed never having set foot (which did not fail to make Blazers fans react), after ten years in the region!
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| Damian Lillard | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2012-13 | ORP | 82 | 39 | 42.9 | 36.8 | 84.4 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 6.5 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 19.1 |
| 2013-14 | ORP | 82 | 36 | 42.4 | 39.4 | 87.1 | 0.4 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 5.6 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 20.7 |
| 2014-15 | ORP | 82 | 36 | 43.4 | 34.3 | 86.4 | 0.6 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 6.2 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 0.3 | 21.0 |
| 2015-16 | ORP | 75 | 36 | 41.9 | 37.5 | 89.2 | 0.6 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 6.8 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 0.4 | 25.1 |
| 2016-17 | ORP | 75 | 36 | 44.4 | 37.0 | 89.5 | 0.6 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 5.9 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 27.0 |
| 2017-18 | ORP | 73 | 37 | 43.9 | 36.1 | 91.6 | 0.9 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 6.6 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 26.9 |
| 2018-19 | ORP | 80 | 36 | 44.4 | 36.9 | 91.2 | 0.9 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 6.9 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 2.7 | 0.4 | 25.8 |
| 2019-20 | ORP | 66 | 38 | 46.3 | 40.1 | 88.8 | 0.5 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 8.0 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 30.0 |
| 2020-21 | ORP | 67 | 36 | 45.1 | 39.1 | 92.8 | 0.5 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 7.5 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 0.3 | 28.8 |
| 2021-22 | ORP | 29 | 36 | 40.2 | 32.4 | 87.8 | 0.5 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 7.3 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 0.4 | 24.0 |
| 2022-23 | ORP | 4 | 37 | 50.0 | 40.0 | 91.7 | 1.5 | 4.0 | 5.5 | 5.3 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 3.8 | 0.5 | 33.3 |
| Total | 715 | 36 | 43.8 | 37.3 | 89.3 | 0.6 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 6.6 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 24.7 | |
