Even this .. in the moment, crowd, commentators and all it still felt like it wasn't appreciated enough. I don't know why, I just get that vibe. It's kind of been the story of Lillard's career. I feel like we are all letting this dudes accomplishments and loyalyty to basketball in general pass us by and only when we're all 50-60 will we talk about "Oh yeah, remember Dame? He was cold!".
The problem is he has won anything. Don't matter how great you are, if you don't make the playoffs or get kicked out every year. Then people aren't gonna give you full respect. Unless he wins a title, he's just gonna be another Barkley, Stockton, Ewing, ect. Legendary players that are never looked at fulling at the top because they couldn't win it all. It really does matter.
@Vernon Tang Klay is the better overall shooter. Don't get me wrong, Dame is also somewhere up there in the top 10 but he can't touch Steph or Klay. Klay would've broken his own record Multiple times if it Kerr didn't decide to sub him out before. I Think he even had 13 in 3 Quarters once and got benched for the whole 4zu Quarter.
so smooth, dribbling, hesitation moves, switching directions, long range and that dunk. really happy we get to see such player. he wants to win i hope it happens to him in portland as he is a special player.
As someone who appreciates old school basketball and liked more the physical style of play. Ppl need to realize what this guy did in this game. He was 13-21 from 3 and a lot of his shots were far. That’s a 3pt % of almost 62%. If you were a big man and just did dunks,tip ins, baby hooks etc and took 21 shots and made all 21. You would have 42 points with fg % of 100. Only 3 more points more than the 39 points scored alone from the 13 three pointers made. He also was 14-14 from the ft line. This was a GAME. The play style has changed but you can’t deny the shooting skill. Very impressive
Over Kyrie is wild... his on court accomplishments has nothing to do with his off court antics. Kyrie is better than Dame dawg. Not by much but he is. Plus how many chips dame got??
I said it before and I'll say it again Lillard is better than Kyrie Irving and has been since his sophomore season. He just never received that recognition cause his team never went far but he never team hopped to chase rings or money. He's the definition of solid
@@hristijandimitrovski8664 yes he is. Klay Thompson is all catch n shoot. He benefited off playing w Steph and always got the wide open looks. His catch n shoot game is next to none but Dames pull up shooting is on a whole other level. Klay don’t come off a screen and pull up at 35ft with a defender in his face like Dame or Steph. Or at least nowhere near as efficiently as Dame does
This performance is like a teacher showing his students how its done, dame taught them youngins on the rockets a lesson, dropped a 70-piece with a poster dunk on their asses AND won the game, far from washed he's still elite
Damian is one of the best to ever do it, I feel like it's wrong to mention someone else because it feels wrong to take shine off him, but I want to say this, if Kobe played now he would've already broken the (no real evidence/proof) 100pt mark in this the softest era of basketball and 2, I prefer players like Dame over Machiavelic players that assamble superteams to win something or to stack numbers.
@@jeromec.d490 Klay doesn’t have the range like Dame or the different ways to get the 3 Off he’s just catch & shoot most the time … I live in the bay & fw Klay but he not a better overall shooter then Dame … if Curry wasn’t around it would be him
Not only did he drop 71 but that’s a true 71 not a bunch of bs free throws. He created when he didn’t have the ball and set his teammates up for the W. The rockets only came back when he was on the bench too. And Donavon Mitchell’s 71 was bs a bunch of free throws and a missed call at the end of the game that shouldn’t have put it into OT otherwise Mitchell would’ve had 54
modern NBA is so obsessed about setting records, not only is this era more favorable for the offensive player than ever, at the same time, there are more efficient ways to score or get points....if this happened in the old days, the player would be sitting on the bench after a 20 points lead and there is no way they can score that much.
@@ferrisbtone I guess only time will tell 🤷♂️ it’s too bad he played 4 years in college so he probably won’t be as high in scoring, but still gonna crack 20k here soon
No one in the history of the game can compete with Dame when he's on Dame Time mode. He's a force to be reckoned with, the most clutch, the most deadly, the most unstoppable.
Man if Dame and Zach Lavine pair up smh it’s gone be hell for the whole nba and I got a feeling that’s what’s about to happen come next season I just got dat feeling bro talk about a shooting frenzy on any giving night just look at the most made threes in a game that says it all 💯💯🔥🎯
@@justmhee4300 I'm not saying that he's pretending as someone else lol. I've said it because kobe acknowledged him as one of the fiercest competitors as a ROOKIE. And post retirement kobe considers him as someone who has that competitive mentality too. Go look at the past interviews.
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@@stomo422 the rest of blazers have 39 fgs attempt while dame only damian Lillard only have 38 fgs attempt still damain Lillard scored 71 points compare to the rest of blazers points
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seeing him taking logo shots for no reason and it goes in, you know his confidence level is so high and know he's gonna make a history tonight.
It was against the rockets so might as well lol
@@Rhude_tillerSo ?
@@Rhude_tiller y’all some haters fr 😂😂
Hey ppl didn’t give him his respect like they did curry
@@andrewclinkscale3072 facts
Even this .. in the moment, crowd, commentators and all it still felt like it wasn't appreciated enough. I don't know why, I just get that vibe. It's kind of been the story of Lillard's career. I feel like we are all letting this dudes accomplishments and loyalyty to basketball in general pass us by and only when we're all 50-60 will we talk about "Oh yeah, remember Dame? He was cold!".
right on the nose bro
true but pretty sure these are the HOU commentators
He has to get out of Portland
@T-Mo Fisher [ティモ] nah those are the Portland guys.
The problem is he has won anything. Don't matter how great you are, if you don't make the playoffs or get kicked out every year. Then people aren't gonna give you full respect. Unless he wins a title, he's just gonna be another Barkley, Stockton, Ewing, ect. Legendary players that are never looked at fulling at the top because they couldn't win it all. It really does matter.
So glad he came back from last year's injury when people then thought he was washed
Facrs😮
Facts
What a performance an insane shooting display from one of the greatest shooters if all time 🎯
@Zavier Thomas dame range> Curry range
@@kachi3382 Behave yourself.
@@kachi3382 no🤣
@Zavier Thomas nah. He is 3rd best in the league right now and probably 5th or 7th all time.
@Vernon Tang Klay is the better overall shooter. Don't get me wrong, Dame is also somewhere up there in the top 10 but he can't touch Steph or Klay. Klay would've broken his own record Multiple times if it Kerr didn't decide to sub him out before. I Think he even had 13 in 3 Quarters once and got benched for the whole 4zu Quarter.
That spin move to the low dribble with the left and1 layup was just insane he’s too fucking good
nobody in this league deserve a ring more than damian lillard
Butler also
@@onepiecelol4126 no
CP3
Chris Paul then Dame
No one in the league deserves a ring if they haven’t earned it
so smooth, dribbling, hesitation moves, switching directions, long range and that dunk. really happy we get to see such player. he wants to win i hope it happens to him in portland as he is a special player.
As someone who appreciates old school basketball and liked more the physical style of play. Ppl need to realize what this guy did in this game. He was 13-21 from 3 and a lot of his shots were far. That’s a 3pt % of almost 62%. If you were a big man and just did dunks,tip ins, baby hooks etc and took 21 shots and made all 21. You would have 42 points with fg % of 100. Only 3 more points more than the 39 points scored alone from the 13 three pointers made. He also was 14-14 from the ft line. This was a GAME. The play style has changed but you can’t deny the shooting skill. Very impressive
Man I love Dame so much, he deserves his flowers
Dame is a freaken beast!
Get this man a ring
impossible
He not getting one unless he runs from the grind.
He chose to stay and get paid
@@Sup_bro23 he go get paid anywhere he goes💀😂
When Embiid or KD comes to Portland, it will happen
I’ve been a huge fan of dame since 2016 he’s the most talented pg of our generation. He’s on his way to a ring for sure.
We all recognised that Lob Play. I Love these types of play. Just Superb
Dame must have been putting in some serious work with those ball hog gloves
rofl :)
One of my favorite players😆
Lillard is crazy!
Dame also has the record of having the longest video on zh highlights with 8 mins!
Year in and year out this guy is incredible.
If he has reached his PRIME PEAK, he can lead the NBA in scoring for the next 3 years without a problem. Look out.
Respect from Greece 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
He deserved to be top 75 over Kyrie. Dude is an unreal talent. Kyrie has a ring but overall damian is definitely more talented
He's included though
He's part of the top 75 gang
Over Kyrie is wild... his on court accomplishments has nothing to do with his off court antics. Kyrie is better than Dame dawg. Not by much but he is. Plus how many chips dame got??
@@tila99 Dame over kyrie bro.
@@tila99 Only thing Kai has over Dame is a ring and handles
The Man Is Making Some Of The Toughest Shots Ever. Not To Mention , He’s The Clutchest Player Of This Generation.
no title case needed
If the logo could be bigger like 20 feets, we can lay up as a logo shot
Would love for the blazers to finish strong and dame take an MVP home
Watching this right now and my phone charge is 71 %....Dame Time !!!
Dame’s threes r smooth asf
Ppl don’t talk abt how quick Dame’s release is 🔥🔥
Great game Dame 🤘🏾🔥 🔥🔥
I said it before and I'll say it again Lillard is better than Kyrie Irving and has been since his sophomore season. He just never received that recognition cause his team never went far but he never team hopped to chase rings or money. He's the definition of solid
This man might become the greatest ringless player of all time, and that’s just so fucking sad.
Yeah I thought about this like over melo and cp3 if dame leaves this game without a chip I will cry
AI
Sir Charles
Russ better
With all due respect to Dame, but Harden, Russ, CP3 deserve rings more than Dame in their era
Unreal game
HES LOWKEY 2ND GREATEST SHOOTER OF ALL TIME BEHIND STEPH
No. He is 3rd best shooter in the league right now
Period. He's definitely better than klay Thompson
@@finnjake6663 no, he is not🤣🤣🤣
Not really percentage wise
@@hristijandimitrovski8664 yes he is. Klay Thompson is all catch n shoot. He benefited off playing w Steph and always got the wide open looks. His catch n shoot game is next to none but Dames pull up shooting is on a whole other level. Klay don’t come off a screen and pull up at 35ft with a defender in his face like Dame or Steph. Or at least nowhere near as efficiently as Dame does
Don't forget he said in an interview he could have gone for 90.He had a few close ones at the end and only scored 9 in the third.
Feels like the least impressive 70 point game ever next to David Robinson’s 71
piece against the Clippers in 94
What a MASTERPIECE PERFORMANCE!💯💯🤝
First mitchell now lillard!!! Who is next to score 70+ points ?
It would have to be someone that doesn't have a lot of offensive players around him that he could pass the ball.
This performance is like a teacher showing his students how its done, dame taught them youngins on the rockets a lesson, dropped a 70-piece with a poster dunk on their asses AND won the game, far from washed he's still elite
He did it all including a jam
Him and kd would be nasty together they are too efficient and it’s just with ease
Damn! Dame!
Somebody gonna get 81 in the next 5 years. Book it👌🏼👌🏼. Someone gonna break wilts record in the next 10 years
If anyone probably Luka or embiid
not 100 your outta your mind
@@realbuckeye9716 it’s definitely possible with the 3 ball in the right situation, might need like 2 or 3 overtime’s tho
@@duk3335 for 80 but 100 is crazy not reachable
God
This was a heat check LIKE NO OTHER!
yoòoo dame the greatest ever
Dame Time has come
The commentator was so calm that Dame scored 71
That's how young Drazen Petrovic played back in Europe before he came to the NBA a couple of years too late
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤩🤩🤩🤩 - GREAT VID BTW TOO
He is crasy god today
He might be starting a serious mvp run
Klay the other day vs Rockets = 12 threes
Dame today vs Rockets = 13 threes 😂
13 3pt with logo shots no one can do that !!!
Get This man some great back up and he might win a ring
Damian is one of the best to ever do it, I feel like it's wrong to mention someone else because it feels wrong to take shine off him, but I want to say this, if Kobe played now he would've already broken the (no real evidence/proof) 100pt mark in this the softest era of basketball and 2, I prefer players like Dame over Machiavelic players that assamble superteams to win something or to stack numbers.
Second best shooter of all time behind steph
Dame is a insane shooter, but he is not the 2nd greatest shooter of all time
Facts second best.
@@jeromec.d490 who is 2nd best? James Harden?🤡
@@rakshanpurandhar7446 klay
@@jeromec.d490 Klay doesn’t have the range like Dame or the different ways to get the 3 Off he’s just catch & shoot most the time … I live in the bay & fw Klay but he not a better overall shooter then Dame … if Curry wasn’t around it would be him
Awesome!
I respect loyalty... But he deserves more. It's time to move on.
Respect
Machine
22/38 shooting
Iv just watched a player at there peake of there powers with a point to prove
Not only did he drop 71 but that’s a true 71 not a bunch of bs free throws. He created when he didn’t have the ball and set his teammates up for the W. The rockets only came back when he was on the bench too. And Donavon Mitchell’s 71 was bs a bunch of free throws and a missed call at the end of the game that shouldn’t have put it into OT otherwise Mitchell would’ve had 54
Nets needs Lilard, top packaged!
MVP
"its only against the rockets" is what casuals would say.
Somebodies getting 15 threes in a game. Only a matter of time
modern NBA is so obsessed about setting records, not only is this era more favorable for the offensive player than ever, at the same time, there are more efficient ways to score or get points....if this happened in the old days, the player would be sitting on the bench after a 20 points lead and there is no way they can score that much.
I wonder where Dame will finish all time . That man is insane
Finish all time what?
@@Simon_Sez point guards , scoring and 3pt
@@ferrisbtone I guess only time will tell 🤷♂️ it’s too bad he played 4 years in college so he probably won’t be as high in scoring, but still gonna crack 20k here soon
glad i get to wiitness history
oh, my, what a night
Bro rockets its just a career high destination
Mitchell and Lillard this year with 70 points., sheesh and the season ain't over yet.. 40+ players averaging 20+ points what the hell is happening 😆
Dame did it without double overtime
@@D3MANE bulls are better than rockets
plus Mitchell need to get buckets the game was close Lillard was stat chasing. Mitchell was way better 71,8,11
seventy one bruh im just speechless
without OT OMG..
its against trash rockets calm down
The Dame Time show
He should have tried to tie Klay's record
No one in the history of the game can compete with Dame when he's on Dame Time mode. He's a force to be reckoned with, the most clutch, the most deadly, the most unstoppable.
Kobe entered the chat... also if Kobe was defending him it would have been different, no disrespect to Dame, amazing performance.
Man if Dame and Zach Lavine pair up smh it’s gone be hell for the whole nba and I got a feeling that’s what’s about to happen come next season I just got dat feeling bro talk about a shooting frenzy on any giving night just look at the most made threes in a game that says it all 💯💯🔥🎯
His 3 pt attempts be most guys good nights lmaoooo
insane
THE GOAT 🐐
Who did sixsers got for thybull?
This reminds me of good ol freedawkins
This is absurd. Dame really got that kobe genes
Duh he has his own identity he is not an impostor
Yeah why bringing up Kobe or Jordan each time someone is good at scoring ? They are not in the top 3 scoring all time lmao
@@justmhee4300 I'm not saying that he's pretending as someone else lol. I've said it because kobe acknowledged him as one of the fiercest competitors as a ROOKIE. And post retirement kobe considers him as someone who has that competitive mentality too. Go look at the past interviews.
@@ladyediting clearly you're missing the point
@@ladyediting why bring up Kobe? Because while we were watching this, it was similar to watching Kobe put up his 81, the confidence and execution.
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13 out of 22 😱😱.... it is all star game?😅
U can't see it twice in your life
Future Brooklyn net
Damian Lillard 71 points
the rest of blazers 60 points
i mean he gets to shoot like 40 times so i know he's on fire today but yeah he gets to shoot more so his stats are good.
Kobe 81pts the rest of the lakers 41pts.
@@stomo422 the rest of blazers have 39 fgs attempt while dame only damian Lillard only have 38 fgs attempt still damain Lillard scored 71 points compare to the rest of blazers points
These commentators are killing the hype.
Come to Boston Dame
He still needs to leave the blazers for a contender.
🔥🔥🔥
If he was traded to chase rings. he would have atleast 1 ring
Bro the rockets are bad mad teams bout to try them now.. like they always been 😂
Yeah the let Klay score 42 the game before this lmfao
Almost ever single mega scoring game is against bad defenses, chill out
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Thats why Klay Thompson not in 75 all of time... cry Klay....
I wish he wasnt so loyal to portland
damn he scored more than michael jordan ever did