Lillards first game winner

[jlprk]

No game winners for Roy as a rookie: http://bkref.com/tiny/C8WBf (though he did assist Juan Dixon on one)

Try changing "shot to take lead" to "shot to tie." The tying shot might have generated a foul and a game-winning free throw.

http://bkref.com/tiny/4gh6v

 

[Haakzilla]

...caption this:

 

[magnifier661]

...caption this:

Step aside bitch! I got a ROY to win.

 

[THE HCP]

...caption this:

I lost my hand up in this fools eyebrow!

 

[Boob-No-More]

...caption this:

Damian Lillard shows why he's this year's most versatile rookie, as he scores and plucks fellow rookie Anthony Davis' unibrow at the same time.

BNM

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Try changing "shot to take lead" to "shot to tie." The tying shot might have generated a foul and a game-winning free throw.

http://bkref.com/tiny/4gh6v

Cool, let's look:

1/6/2007 - tied the game, went to OT, Zach Randolph hits the clinching FTs to put us up 5 with 1.7 seconds to go
http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/pbp/200701060SAC.html#q4
Analysis: Clutch as fuck, but not a game winner.

2/2/2007 - tied the game, and we went to OT, but we lost.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/pbp/200702020DEN.html#q4
Analysis: Clutch as hell to force OT, but we couldn't hold it.

2/9/2007 - tied the game, but Okafur his a FT after it. Z-Bo his a FT to put the game into OT.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/pbp/200702090CHA.html#q4
Analysis: Clutch as fuck once again, but not at the end of the game.

3/23/2007 - Roy ties the game, but then misses the go-ahead shot as time actually expired to put the game away. Went to OT, where his FT's with 4 seconds to go put the game out of reach.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/pbp/200703230ATL.html#q4
Analysis: Pretty clutch, but not a game winner; actually missed the game winner. Clutch-ass FT's though!

Overall, Roy showed he was fucking clutch, but didn't win a game with a made field goal. Sticky distinction, but it matters to some folks.

 

[jlprk]

We vaguely remember those exciting moments years later as rookie clutch shots. The details are forgotten.

You might extend the search from 24 seconds to 1 minute. Sometimes that's the last meaningful made FG, followed by missed FGs, and made FTs from intentional fouls. But the victory shot happened way back, like with 50 seconds left.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

How clutch is Lillard? Here's Lillard this year (3rd with .571 eFG%):

http://bkref.com/tiny/maChk

Here's Roy when he was at his best for clutch points (2009-10, 12th with .493 eFG%):

http://bkref.com/tiny/qRXrr

What's interesting as I went through the years (06/07 through 09/10) is that the player Lillard most closely matched in eFG% for clutch shots was Steve Nash, who was consistently 3rd or 4th with around a .600 eFG%.

 

[magnifier661]

God when was the last time the blazers even had a pg we could count on in the clutch? I can't even remember.

 

[Haakzilla]

 

[HailBlazers]

...caption this:

Talk to the Hand

 

[THE HCP]

This one is better!

 

[Haakzilla]

This one is better!

[video game picture]

...if only it was accurate