What’s Wrong With Damian Lillard?

What’s Wrong With Damian Lillard?

Coming into the NBA season the Milwaukee Bucks were seen as the favorites in the Eastern Conference however just flashed forward a couple months later and they are currently sitting at the third seed in the Eastern Conference while that’s not the worst thing in the world for most teams the Bucks have been

Struggling very heavily as of lately and the main reason why they’ve been struggling is Damen Lillard something is going on with Damen Lillard and a lot of people are very confused on what has happened to this man at one point he was one of the best scorers in the NBA and

When Milwaukee was able to trade for him in the offseason it made it seem like the Bucks were going to die dominate The Following season and again I’m not saying the Bucks to the team are completely bad they’re still the third seene in the Eastern Conference for a

Reason they’re still doing their thing every now and then but if you look at certain things within this team you can realize that come playoff time this might lead to another early playoff exit and the main topic of this video I want to discuss is Damen Lillard Lillard has

Been struggling at a very weird Time of the Season I remember earlier in the year he was struggling but I feel like that’s normal for a lot of Shooters especially when they’re on brand new teams and there were a lot of reasons why we Justified how Damen lard was

Playing in the month of December he averaged about 26 points per game while shooting 47 43 and 92 for his shooting splits which is not too bad for Damen Lillard however his stats this year have definitely gone down and if we look at the start of 2024 when we entered a

Brand new year things get even worse because Lillard is averaging almost 23 points per game while shooting 40 29 and 92 splits now for context of how bad that is number one we all know Damen Lillard has always been a good shooter so you can clearly tell how bad this is

But also it makes him the 10th worst shooter on the team which is absolutely insane this is a guy that was supposed to elevate the buck three-point shooting and was overall supposed to make the offense go from great to Elite however their offense has been struggling and

Lillard is one of the main reasons because of this now you might be asking why has Lillard been struggling this bad well I think there are a couple reasons why and I think every reason I have is pretty valid I think the first thing we have to start with is a simple concept

It’s that Lillard is on a brand new team and on that team he has a brand new dynamic duo in Yannis atent the combo and yeah I know we’re almost at the All-Star break it’s literally this week but still I think this is still a pretty valid reason the thing about having a

Duo is usually we’ll see Duos of a guard and another guard or a guard and a forward but a duo with a really good guard and a really good big man that can get very interesting for example let’s say James Harden and Joel embiid when they were on the Sixers together that

Pick and roll Duo is statistically supposed to be very nasty and while joelan bade was a great offensive player the thing with Harden was he was becoming more of a playmaker than a scorer but in this case you have two players that are very good at scoring

The basketball now while Giannis is good at almost everything except shooting the ball and not trying to be horny in just about every single postgame interview is ever done Lillard has always been known to be a great shooter and even a great playmaker at times so when I see Giannis

Doing his normal thing on the offensive side dominating the paint and basically doing a carry job I say huh that’s pretty normal impressive but that’s the status quo but when I see Damen Lillard shooting 29% from three and missing wide openen shots I’m a little concerned and

It makes sense why the Bucks offense is starting to struggle especially when these two players are the key to the offense and while one player is holding his side of what he has to do the other is not so again while I want to be like

Oh it’s a brand new team it’s a new Duo I still do think they’re at the point where they should be adjusted but on the contrary another thing we can talk about is bringing in a brand new coach midseason which by the way doesn’t just with Damon Giannis this with

The entire team and what’s going on now I don’t think I’ve ever talked about the Adrien Griffin firing on this channel but I’m just going to say this real quick while yes I don’t think he was the right man for the job I don’t think he

Should have been the coach in the first place and I knew eventually he was going to get fired you really did it midseason I know a lot of people question the firing but I think Legend winning set a best the only reason we’re saying this is because of the timing of this which

To be fair should we not be be surprised at that point the Bucks I believe were either second or still third in the Eastern Conference they were still a great team and it seemed like everything was going okay while there were rumors that Adrian Griffin had already lost the

Locker room I feel like this only made things worse because the guy you brought in was Doc Rivers I am not going to praise Doc Rivers don’t even think I was going to do it for a sec but I do think it’s kind of unfair to Doc Rivers

The way you brought him in you brought him in in the middle of the season with a team that is just going through a little slump and now I think they’ve added to the slump because ever since that fire ring the Bucks have been struggling and dropping games they

Should have won and I know there have been other reasons why they’ve been struggling they’ve been dealing with injuries but still when you bring in a brand new coach it with everything especially when this coach is honestly not right for the job now even after the team is a whole completely changing I

Still feel like there’s another reason we can discuss and I’m not going to lie I’m going to be talking about this for a very short period of time because this is none of my business but we are talking about Poss reasons why he’s been struggling and I think mental health is

Something you need to focus on and I won’t lie and I’ve never been through this but going through a divorce I can imagine can with you mentally I know a lot of people are saying oh it’s just a divorce he has to play through it

And yes I do think he has to play through it but most of y’all have never been through a divorce most of y’all don’t understand how bad it is like I don’t know how many of y’all are in a relationship right now but imagine going through a breakup I feel like a divorce

Is like 10 times that especially when there are kids involved especially when you’ve been with that person for a long time and I know the divorce happened a while back but still it’s still pretty fresh on his mind I can imagine now I’m not going to talk about the details

Because truth be told I don’t know exactly what happened in the relationship and I don’t care to know but from a basketball standpoint I do think this is one of the reasons why he’s been struggling because not even just as a basketball player but in any

Profession you’re in if you are not in the right mental space you are not going to perform at the same level you should hell I’m no athlete but when I struggle mentally it is impossible for me to want to make videos and I know what the comment section is probably

Going to say about this oh well divorce this divorce that look I’ve never been through it I’m 19 years old I can barely hold a relationship but I can imagine separating from your wife like that can definitely with you mentally now let’s uh transition to something else cuz I don’t want to keep

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Boys back to the video I think it would be dumb for us not to think that age doesn’t have something to do with this Damen Lillard is at the age of 33 years old right now and it is not the norm for players to be almost 40 and still

Dominating I know LeBron has made it look easy but I think we all know he is one crazy of a specimen that or this man is taking ped yo who the is knocking on my door ah clutch Sports is at my door nice but all jokes aside it’s

Not normal for players to play this long and at the age of 33 this is the point where I expect Dame to start struggling but what’s interesting to me is I would have thought stuff like his explosiveness and his playmaking would have gotten worse with age not necessarily his shooting because we’ve

Seen a lot of players to get old over time and they still keep that one factor that made him great which is shooting for example like a Kyle corver or even a guy like Ray Allen throughout their entire career they’ve always stayed a good shooter and look Damen Lillard is

Obviously better than both of those players but Lillard shooting I don’t know I just thought it was something he would always be good at now this again could be a shooting slump or this could be the normal for Dame we could see him go from a guy that can average somewhere

In the mid-30s to even 40% at some point to now a guy who can barely get to like 33% now the last and final thing I think could probably be the most legitimate out of out of everything we’ve seen because we’ve seen D be good this year

Like if a player was getting older I feel like throughout the entire season they would consistently be dropping but Lillard he’s had his up and downs this year so I think mixing all these together along with this final reason could really be the deciding factor of

What’s going on with Dame if you guys did not know Daman Lillard is currently dealing with an ankle injury right now according to an article it said that he injured it in a game versus the Utah Jazz on February 4th where he was definitely struggling in that game he

Would miss three consecutive games and in the past three games he’s continued to struggle I’m not saying this is the reason why but it’s definitely not helping him at all in the end I feel like if you combine all these reasons together you could really come to any

Conclusion you want to now I don’t want to make it seem like I’m overreacting because my boy young mustard he made a video about this 2 months ago and I looked at the comment section and a lot of people were saying oh you’re going to

Be wrong or oh look he just had this crazy game but if Lillard continues to struggle up until the playoffs I’m not sure how the Bucks are going to do the Bucks are relying on guys like Damon Giannis to carry them to the playoffs and the way it seems right now we could

Be in for another first round exit by the Bucks and this time I think they’re going to be a lot more consequences ahead of us

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