The NBA usually delivers electrifying endings. If a game has an open result and one of the teams has an unbalancing player, anything can happen in the best basketball league on the planet. The last case occurred in the triumph of the Portland Trail Blazers before the Chicago Bulls, thanks to two 3-pointers by Damian Lillard in the last eight seconds. The miracle allowed the locals to prevail by 123 to 122.
The Blazers point guard made an amazing comeback in the game played at the United Center stadium. His team trailed by five points. The first of the agonizing touchdowns was more than a meter outside the three-point zone. Then his partner Gary Trent Jr. he disputed the ball to Zach Lavine, the figure of the Bulls, the team where in the 90s he made history Michael Jordan. There was a jump and the Portland man slapped the ball into Lillard’s position, who raised his arms and sent the ball into the basket.
The 30-year-old hero of the day finished the match with 44 points, with 8/17 from the arc, five rebounds and nine assists. Given the important absences of Jusuf Nurkic and CJ McCollum, Lillard was well supported by Enes Kanter, who finished with 22 points and 11 rebounds, and Trent, who had 18 points.
For the Bulls, Lauri Markkanen was the best with 31 points. Zach LaVine contributed 26 and Coby White, 20. However, no one could stop Lillard’s triplet ecstasy and the Blazers ended up turning the score.
Lillard is one of the most prominent in the NBA in the open epilogues and whose final result is decided in the final seconds. He is a specialist in three-point concretions and tends to throw from the middle of the court with ease. His hit percentage is around 40 percent.
But Damian does not settle for sporadic agonizing triumphs. His mind is fixed on being a champion with the Blazers. “We really have to go for the title search, that we are not an organization that is satisfied with reaching the Playoffs several years in a row or with creating a great culture. Let’s do everything we can to give ourselves a real chance, try to bring glory back to Portland. It’s been a long time and I want to be part of it, I get up for that every morning, I take care of myself, I prepare … All the steps I have taken in my career are thinking about going out to compete at the highest level and win a championship this city and organization ”, he assured.
Portland Trail Blazers is seventh in the Western Conference, which has Denvers Nuggets, the Argentine team in fifth position Facundo Campazzo.
The Portland player made his NBA debut with this team in the 2012/2013 season and in 2013 he was recognized as the best rookie. Five times he was chosen for the All-Star (Game of the Stars). In 2019-2020, he averaged 30.0 points (40.1% triple in 10.2 attempts), 4.3 rebounds, 8.0 assists and 1.1 steals in 37.5 minutes in the Regular Phase.
In the last game he was once again key to the final result of his team. He is an unbalanced player and it can be said that he won the fight against the Bulls.
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