The NBA continued to play a number of games today, and in a match between two teams with point guards at their core, the Charlotte Hornets defeated the visiting Portland Trail Blazers 125-113 at home to avoid a losing streak. The Trail Blazers' two-game winning streak was brought to an end. Although the core players of both teams are point guards, the performance of the two core players in this game can be said to be a world of difference.
Although he is only a second-year rookie, the Hornets' three-goal Lamelo Ball still played a core performance to help the team win this game, and he scored 27 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists on 10-of-20 shooting. In contrast, the Blazers' core guard Lillard, the performance of this game once again pulled the crotch, the whole game 20 shots only 5, of which the three-point shot is only a dismal 14 shots 2, only 14 points and 12 assists data, the team naturally can not win.
Why Lillard's performance has been pulling his crotch again, because he has been in a bad state since the start of the season, although he won the previous game against the Grizzlies, he only had a 6-of-22 shooting, and in the previous game against the Clippers, Lillard only scored 12 points on 4-of-15 shooting, and the team also lost by 30 points. In the first game of the season against the Kings, Lillard even shot 0 of 9 from three-point range and scored only 20 points on 8-of-24 shooting. In the first six games of the season, Lillard averaged just 18.3 points per game, shooting only 34.9% from a bad shooting rate, and his three-point shooting rate was as low as 23.2%, all three of which were career lows. He also has the lowest shooting percentage among players in the league who have averaged more than 18 shots per game.
Lillard didn't do well at the Olympics this summer, but that could be one of the reasons for his poor start to the season, as he hasn't experienced such a special offseason in his career. Lillard's real point of controversy is that he was previously selected as the NBA's 75th anniversary of the history of the 75th star, Lillard and Anthony Davis' shortlisting is undoubtedly more controversial, but the thick eyebrows have a championship in hand, and what Lillard can come up with is indeed more limited. If he wants to dispel doubts, Lillard will have more to do in the rest of his career.