Dame Lillard "I'm too solid for this weird azz era"

that used to be one of his strong points, when he was first trying to find a role for himself. But as we have seen with many other players, as you develop more and more as a overall player especially offensively like CJ has becoming a more versatile scorer, that other side of the ball will lack. But yeah it's not only him, they just have too many rotational guys who aren't any sort of defensive presence, so collectively that's a big reason why they're all bad

 

He's taken them out of the first round before, you jackass. They were in the WCF two seasons ago, dill weed.

 

That's because he plays up in Portland. Drexler and Roy never got the respect they deserved either. I see your lobotomy worked.

 

What? Drexler was widely considered on the same plain as Jordan until their finals clash. Roy was considered the best young guard until we found out he was bone on bone

 

It's probably time to trade Dame while he still has value so Portland can bring in some real help for Melo.

 

Yea it maybe some illusion or image of Dame staying in a small market. I'm a fan of his game, he has had some incredible moments, but everything you cited above is correct. Blazers do spend and he does have solid talent around him. Despite coming into college and playing for an 'underdog', when you the no 6 pick , higher than curry even. Maybe its both of their natures as being quieter or something along that line of branding. Its hard to take espn too seriously although they dominate or guide the national conversation and this is a great point of how harden, curry, lilard, and many other players all have different arbitrary narratives stuck with them.

 

Do you not know what consistently means.

And what happened last year?

 

This thread is almost as good as the one about Curry.

I love Dame, he's been loyal to his franchise, even though they are a small market team and have had a difficult time putting a top team around him. And he has game, at least on offense. As far as guards in this past decade, I don't think he's up there with James, CP3 or Curry, but I'd take him over Kyrie or Russ.

 

he also consistently showed up in advanced stats as the worst or just plain worse than Harden as a defender and yet it was all about "Harden plays no defense" hot takes and jokes for years.

 

I think the difference is that Dame is limited defensively, a small guy who gets overpowered physically. James on the other hand has all the tools he needs to be a great defender, but often shows no interested in being one, thus the criticism.

 

Excuses, excuses

 

Dame is perfect for this era he is another guy that can score that plays no defense just like 99% of the other players in the league.

 

All he needed to do was tag KD and Lebron

 

Well, that didn't take long.

 

the media is already saying they wont blame lillard if he asks for a trade lol. Dame time has always been about offense not defense

 

Dame is similiar to James Harden and they are both opposite to the Chris Pauls effect. Chris Paul transforms players of that type to unbeatable looking playoff teams it doesn't matter if he plays with Shai, Booker or HOFers. Dame on the other hand will look good individually, have some "wise" words for the media, give some corny rap quotes on instagram all while having healthy squad with McCollum, Nurkić, Covington, Melo etc and still escape the blame.... like dude You were playing against Denver without Jamal Murray and they went 4-2 with last game being a blowout. Morris dude killed y'all.. you couldn't guard 5'5 Campazzo either points are only one facade aspect of the game can't win in playoffs without defense and smart play 48min a game

 

More like "I'm too inconsistent for these 'Dame Time' moments to ever really mean anything."

 

dame is nothing like harden. He is closer to a rich mans gilbert arenas if anything

harden would average 40 against this nuggets team, especially with no will barton