Who knows if sustained recovery or a pill to sleep soundly for a while. The Blazers are a mess of trouble, having seven straight losses, but they are taking a break. At least for a few hours. The team retaliated at home with a win against Charlotte hornets That says a lot about their hunger and little about the season they were signing so far.
125-116 in front of an absolutely blinded group in defense. The North Carolina team allowed 81 points from the locals in the first half. Then to keep your distance.
For the Blazers this is a little pause to breathe. They have been on fire all season, with a new coach who does not connect with the players, the dismissal of a president who now slits out of the structure and a new one who has to deal with the end of a long-standing project, an owner who wants to sell and a union Lillard-McCollum which also looks final.
Damian Lillard entered the game with the worst shooting numbers of his career. He leaves it with his best mark of the season, 43 points, and this card: 13/14 in shots of one, 6/8 in shots of two and 6/11 in triples. He added 8 assists and 4 rebounds to the score. The funny thing is that he was not the one who sustained the final arreón of the Hornets, who were 29 down in two different moments and went to -6 in the last minute and a half. It was Ben McLemore, one of those who is trying to make up for CJ McCollum’s sharp loss, who, with a triple, sentenced to go home with another high-level performance: in his case it was 28 points with 8 triples. The Hornets, with a good LaMelo Ball (11/17 shots, 27 points), will continue in Phoenix a tour in which at the moment they only have one victory out of three possible.