As in Celtics and Pacers with Jayson Tatum et Tyrese Haliburtonthe rupture of the Achilles tendon of Damian Lillard changed the Bucks plans, in the short and medium term.
In Boston, we chose to degrease the workforce, to avoid exploding the expenses during a season when the title of title is almost zero. In Indianapolis, we also adapted the financial strategy, choosing not to break your piggy bank to remember Myles Turner With a next season, no doubt of transition.
In Milwaukee, the injury of the All-Star leader, however, has less profoundly changed the team’s strategy Because as the Sentinel newspaper indicatesthe Bucks wanted to transfer Damian Lillard this summer.
Become intransferable
After two seasons with the former Blazers player in their ranks, the leaders had come to the conclusion that the group should be rejuvenated, and that the external defense had to be reinforced.
Unless it was unexpected in playoffs, Damian Lillard and its $ 113 million over the next two years would therefore have been transferred this summer, in the hope of better balanced the team around Giannis antetokounmpo And to convince the latter to stay in his lifelong club, to win a second title.
Damian Lillard’s injury above all changed things … because she made the playmaker intransferable, nobody wishing to recover a player with such a contract, when he will probably have to make a cross on the next season. Finally pushing the bucks to use the atomic weapon of “stretch provision”.
| Damian Lillard | Percentage | Rebound | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saison | Team | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | To | Pd | Fte | Int | Bp | Ct | Pts |
| 2012-13 | BY | 82 | 39 | 42.9 | 36.8 | 84.4 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 6.5 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 19.0 |
| 2013-14 ☆ | BY | 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 ☆ | BY | 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 | BY | 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 | BY | 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 ☆ | BY | 73 | 37 | 43.9 | 36.1 | 91.6 | 0.8 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 6.6 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 26.9 |
| 2018-19 ☆ | BY | 80 | 36 | 44.4 | 36.9 | 91.2 | 0.8 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 6.9 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 25.8 |
| 2019-20 ☆ | BY | 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 ☆ | BY | 67 | 36 | 45.1 | 39.1 | 92.8 | 0.5 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 7.5 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 0.3 | 28.8 |
| 2021-22 | BY | 29 | 36 | 40.2 | 32.4 | 87.8 | 0.4 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 7.3 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 0.4 | 24.0 |
| 2022-23 ☆ | BY | 58 | 36 | 46.3 | 37.1 | 91.4 | 0.8 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 7.3 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 3.3 | 0.3 | 32.2 |
| 2023-24 ☆ | MIL | 73 | 35 | 42.4 | 35.4 | 92.0 | 0.5 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 7.0 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 24.3 |
| 2024-25 ☆ | MIL | 58 | 36 | 44.8 | 37.6 | 92.1 | 0.5 | 4.2 | 4.7 | 7.1 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 2.8 | 0.2 | 24.9 |
How to read the stats? MJ = matches played; Min = minutes; Shots = successful shots / tempted shots; 3pts = 3-point / 3-point attempted; LF = Successful free throws / tempted free throws; Off = offensive rebound; Def = defensive rebound; Tot = Total rebounds; PD = assists; FTE: Personal faults; Int = interceptions; BP = lost bullets; CT: against; Pts = points.
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