Bucks 12-3 with Damian Lillard on the season, 7-1 in last 8 games with Dame averaging 28.9PPG 4.7RPG 8APG on 45/39/91 shooting splits and +8.6 (only 2.1 TOV’s!!)
I can’t believe with have this guy lol. Still unreal.
Giannis averaging 34.1 PPG in his last 9. Brook averaging 17.6 PPG in his last 8. Dame’s has elevated Gianni and Brook too imo with the attention he gets.
In our last 7 wins we’re beating teams by on average of 12.1 points. To be fair, some of the teams we’ve beat aren’t that great but no game is easy in the NBA. It’s nice to see this team find its footing and look better and better despite Khris being on a minutes restriction and not fully healthy yet, also our defence being super up and down.
The “bad” teams the Bucks barely beat maybe aren’t so bad.
The Wizards whomped the Pistons in Detroit.
The presumably exhausted Blazers beat the Pacers in Indianapolis. The Pacers are actually a good team.
So the Bucks scraping out victories against the Wizards and Blazers doesn’t look so bad in hindsight.
A win is a win and every NBA team has some very talented players
What did I tell you guys? Damian Lillard is really good at playing basketball.
New Shaq + Kobe
And the game they did lose he basically nearly singlehandedly brought them back to steal it.
My prediction is people will complain about Dame all season long and play the “what if we kept Jrue” game until the playoffs, when they see what tremendous value he has over Jrue in them.
I love dame, but this is just not correct, where are people getting these stats?
Over his last 8, he is averaging 27 and 8 on 2.5 TOS a game, on 42/36/91 shooting. Still solid #s but definitely below his standards. His rim finishing is no where near what it was last year, but hopefully that’ll come with time. Last year, every layup he put up went in, he’d completely mastered the English.
This year in just 17 games I’ve seen dame get blocked on more layups and jump shots than I’ve seen in his last 3 seasons.