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Tlong is feeling it this season...
http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/in...ards_late.html
CLEVELAND — After Damian Lillard hit yet another game-winning shot to deliver the Trail Blazers yet another victory on Tuesday night, I asked him when he knew he was having a special night, when he knew he was “feeling it.”
“When he got off the bus,” Wesley Matthews shouted from a nearby locker.
Not quite. But Lillard sure seems born to makes special plays in special moments. His dagger three against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday was his third game-winner this season — if you count that driving layup against the Suns — and fourth in his brief career, and he says the secret to his late-game success dates back to when he was a kid.
When Lillard was growing up in Oakland, he and his older brother, Houston, played basketball constantly. And after every game — whether it was a game of HORSE, a game of 21 or an outing with friends — he and his brother always ended things the same way.
“Right before we left, before we put the ball down, it would always be, ‘3 … 2 … 1 …’ and we’d shoot that last shot,” Lillard said. “That was the best part. We’d play for three hours and that last three seconds was the most fun to me. I would never leave without hitting the game-winner and we always did it.”
So when Lillard burned Rodney Stuckey with a game-winning fadeaway jumper in a win over the Detroit Pistons, when he froze Alonzo Gee with a dramatic pull-up three-pointer in a win over the Cavaliers, it was just like those times when he and Houston ended their games as children.
“That’s the same feeling I get at the end of games (in the NBA),” Lillard said.
He loved the end-of-game moments with his brother. He lives for them now.
“I think for a lot of players, that’s kind of what you live for, that moment to kind of rise to the occasion,” Lillard said of taking game-winners. “That’s my favorite part of the game. When it’s game on the line, coming down to that last possession, that’s my favorite part of the game.”
Tlong is feeling it this season...
Too bad they'll fall off like they do each year...
Meh, Blazers struggled against both teams.
22-4
Props to Lillard. That was one of a shot.
PED's...
tlong is ON FIRE. Props to ya, mayn, this Blazers squad is sick.
He'll really be feeling it when the Blazers get booted in the first round.Tlong is feeling it this season...
Typical.
"When he was growing up on the streets of Compton, he always wanted to be a superstar basketball player, a rapper or a pimp, and since there was a court near him he chose the former. Never having known his father, with his mother laid up in a crack house, he was raised by his auntie and his grandmother. It's a true heroic story of a kid who overcame the odds to become a basketball player"
Tlong is in Cloud Semen right now.
That late game Magic had HIV tonight tbh
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