Damian Lillard talks about time in Milwaukee, he returns home to Portland

Damian Lillard would always retreat and entered the Hall of Fame as Portland Trail’s blazer, but his return to the city ended up happening much earlier than expected. After Lillard torn his Achilles in a April playoff gameAnd with rumors about the frustration of Giannis Antetokounmpo growing, Milwaukee shocked the League from accept to give up and extend Lillard, buying it and making it a free agent. This has eliminated his path towards a return to Portland.

In recent interviews, Lillard talked everything about it. When they discussed his mandate with the Bucks, the injuries were the main topic: Antetokounmpo was missing the first Lillard playoffs with the team, then this year with his Achilles – with Jim Owczarski of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“I think you should be a little lucky to win big. You have to be healthy and you have to play at the best at the right time and I think we had bad luck.”

He also spoke of loving the experience of playing alongside Antetokounmpo, despite some criticisms of his production and game.

“But I think Giannis and I were the duo with the highest score during that period. We won a [NBA] Cup. I think a lot of people for me personally was like, we want to see Dame doing this and Dame do it, but I am playing with a marker of over 30 points per game, a boy who plays with the ball in his hands in the same way I did all my career. He is aggressive and striker and I still managed to score 25 points per game and seven assists in my two years practically. So I think it’s a bit unfair as people were as a ladies (it is not the same) because of the way I played in Portland. I always had the ball, so it seemed only different. But I think it was truly productive, I think it was unfairly seen. “

Now, Lillard is just happy to be at home, As he said to Anne M. Peterson of the Associated Press.

“Only knowing that I will return home for all parts of my life, with my children, playing for the blazers of the path, guiding in the same streets that I have guided practically for all my adulthood, my whole family is here, my mother, my brother, my sisters, all my friends around the city of Portland,” he said. “All these things count. I didn’t expect it to happen so soon.”

He did it. He will spend more this season as assistant coach who works with young guards such as Scoot Henderson, Shaedon Sharpe and Toumani Camara. They will join them in the rotation in a year.

For now, he is just happy to be at home.