I really don't want to win the MVP

Chapter 161 Damian Lillard

The Portland Trail Blazers, established and joined the NBA in 1970, is a professional basketball team belonging to Portland, Oregon, USA, and is part of the Northwest Division of the NBA Western Conference.

The Northwest is so powerful, and the Utah Jazz, Oklahoma City Thunder, Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets are also in the Northwest Division, all of which are teams with historically strong labels.

The Trail Blazers achieved 1976 wins and 77 losses in the 49-33 season. Under the leadership of Bill Walton, they entered the playoffs for the first time and won the only championship trophy in team history.Since then, the Trail Blazers have maintained their status as a strong team in the Western Conference and have entered the future games very frequently, but they have never been involved in the O'Brien Cup.

At this time, Damian Lillard, the head star of the Trail Blazers, was also considered to be the top star in the league.

Jiang Mu liked Lillard very much before, and even remembered Lillard's highlights very clearly.

Jiang Mu believes that Lillard is the only outside player in the league who can rival Curry.

Moreover, Lillard's big heart is too famous.

Lillard with a watch is best at sending a team to hell in the final moments of anxious games.

2012-13赛季，达米恩-利拉德的新秀赛季就代表开拓者队参加了常规赛的所有比赛，场均贡献19分、6.5次助攻、3.1个篮板和0.9次抢断，以单赛季命中185个三分球打破了当时由由斯蒂芬-库里(166记三分)保持的新秀赛季三分命中数纪录。利拉德包揽了西部所有月最佳新秀奖项，并全票当选2012-13赛季最佳新秀。

This is somewhat similar to Jiang Mu. At this time, Jiang Mu has almost won all the awards for the best rookie of the month, but people's expectations of Jiang Mu are too high, but no one talks about it. About the rookie The honor of Jiang Mu has become a matter of course.

This guard who has contributed countless lore shots has a similarity with Jiang Mu, that is, both of them seem to have become objects of hatred in the hearts of Houstonians.

江沐用了两场新秀赛季高分的比赛，而去年5月3日，利拉德在最后0.9秒的绝杀让开拓者99：98一分险胜火箭，大比分4-2送休斯顿人回了家。

Lillard, who is only in the third grade this year, has averaged 26 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists per game.

Lillard has a calm personality and rarely takes the initiative to attack people, but when someone is aggressive against Lillard, Lillard can often respond strongly. Most of the time, Lillard speaks by strength. confidence.

So when Lillard faced Jiang Mu who didn't take the initiative to provoke others, he seemed to feel a sense of familiarity.

The two have been facing each other since the beginning, but at the same time they are extremely silent.

Jiang Mu felt the danger of Lillard, and Lillard also felt that Jiang Mu was even faster than himself.

The game seemed to be a bit dull until the first half was over.

Jiang Mu and Lillard scored 8 points and 11 points respectively. The strong matchup that people expected did not happen.

The Knicks team is in the best form. Anthony, who finally caught a good touch, experienced the long-lost score. He scored 18 points in the first half.

On the other side, CJ-McCollum also felt good, scoring 16 points.

The game seems to have become a game between the two second masters.

Until the end of the third quarter, Anthony and Porzingis made consecutive three-pointers, and the score was instantly led by the Knicks by 10 points.

At this time, Lillard finally stood up.

Two consecutive ultra-long three-pointers were hit, and then a fast-break dunk in the frontcourt after stealing Porzingis, the point difference was instantly reduced to 2 points.

Fisher looked at Jiang Mu, who was replaced by the attack, to rest, but he still gave up the idea of ​​replacing Jiang Mu in the last 21 seconds of the third quarter.

But once a player like Lillard finds the touch, it is absolutely terrifying. With Lillard's three-pointer at the buzzer in the third quarter, the Trail Blazers even overtook the score at the last moment of the third quarter.

Fisher's face was a little ugly.

Jiang Mu stood up and clapped hands with his teammates, but seemed to feel a gaze drifting over.

Jiang Mu met Lillard's eyes, his heart trembled suddenly, and then he understood instantly.

This may be that the extremely conceited Lillard can achieve the greatest degree of active provocation, right?

Jiang Mu suddenly felt that the game became more interesting.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Jiang Mu immediately showed extreme speed. Lillard was startled, and immediately felt the pressure Jiang Mu brought to him.

Jiang Mu successfully broke through Lillard, facing Plumlee and scored with a fallback jumper.

Not to be outdone, Lillard immediately responded to Jiang Mu with a ball by using the change of rhythm and excellent ball-handling skills.

The two seemed to be fighting silently.

At 4 minutes and 23 seconds of the fourth quarter, Lillard thought that Jiang Mu was going to break through again, so he retreated too far and was too late to pounce forward. Jiang Mu pulled him up and scored a three-pointer.

Three points?I, Lillard, have never been afraid of anyone!
Lillard responded again with a three-pointer from a distance of one meter from the three-point line.

At this time, the audience became happy, including the TNT sky group whose eyes widened instantly.

In the next round, Jiang Mu dribbled the ball to the front court, and after a simple screen, he made another shot.

Lillard turned around and chased, also hit!

The game became exciting in an instant.

The benches of the two teams also stood up to cheer for the core players of their teams.

Anthony: Weed!I am the protagonist in this game!Surprisingly good today!
Jiang Mu did not disappoint Anthony. After a breakthrough pass was in place, Anthony raised his hand and hit a three-pointer.

Excited Anthony and Jiang Mu high fived.

"Brother! The ball was passed so beautifully just now. I was very comfortable catching the ball, even more comfortable than when I was under the quilt at home."

Jiang Mu, who was determined to interrupt Lillard's scoring momentum in advance, put up the tightest defense. Lillard almost made a mistake, but McCollum picked up the ball and made a three-pointer.

Jiang Mu knew there was a lot of luck involved in this shot, but he still admired the explosive scoring power of the Blazers' double guns in the backcourt.

The two teams had less than 70 points at the end of the third quarter, and the fourth quarter ushered in a scoring explosion. At this time, there were 3 minutes left in the game and the score was 99:96.
The Knicks only led by 3 points.

Jiang Mu felt the pressure brought by Lillard's defense and the rest of the Trail Blazers' supplementary defense, and he didn't get a good shot opportunity for several consecutive rounds.

Lillard, instead of being cautious at the end of the game like Jiang Mu, continued to hit the giant planet.

In the last 45 seconds, Lillard still made a three-pointer against Jiang Mu after missing two shots. At this time, the Knicks fell behind by 104 points 106:2.

The last moment of the game came.

After the timeout, Jiang Mu used up the attack time in the early stage, and got a shot through double screen when the attack time was about to end.

After Jiang Mu took the shot, Lillard knew the ball was there at a glance, which was very similar to the arc and rotation of Lillard's countless key shots.

The Knicks went ahead by one point at 107:106, with 14 seconds left.

(End of this chapter)