The recent struggles of the Portland Trail Blazers as a team is disappointing, so rather than focus on the bad, today’s stats talk will be about the absolutely absurd season Damian Lillard is having so far.
Lillard’s stats so far this season are eye-popping, even if the team’s results do not reflect their stature: 30.5 points per game, on 48.2 percent shooting, 38.6 percent from three, and a PER of 28.7. The amount of guards (or guards that sometimes played small forward for fairness) that have put those numbers up across a whole season?