Bucks Coach Doc Rivers about Damian Lillard's injury: “It's not very promising”

On Monday it was confirmed that Damian Lillard torn his left Achilles tendon in game 4.

The star of Milwaukee Bucks, Damian Lillard, left the NBA playoff game against the Indiana Pacers in the first quarter on Sunday evening and did not return.

Without Lillard, the Pacers drove to a 129-103 victory to take the lead 3-1 in their first round against the Bucks. After the game, Lillard was seen how he made himself out of the Fiservforum with crutches and his left leg in a boot.

“You will make an image tomorrow,” said Bucks head coach Doc Rivers about Lillard's injuries after the game. “Obviously it is lower leg and just being honest, it is not very promising.”

Bucks trainer Doc Rivers says reporters that Damian Lillard will do the imaging tomorrow, but Rivers believes that it is “not very promising”.

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With 6:11 in the first quarter, Gary Trent Jr. missed a 3 from the right wing. The long rebound dropped from the ground near the key, and Lillard took a break for it. When he broke back to the ball, his legs went under him. Lillard managed to knock the ball to Trent to achieve an offensive rebound, but immediately broke to the ground.

When he lay on his back, Lillard grabbed his left foot with both arms and sat on the other end of the floor when the goats had committed a foul to get an interruption in the game. As soon as this interruption occurred, Kyle Kuzma and Rivers made their way to Lillard and helped him on his feet. Lillard refused to put a weight on his left foot and hopped from the right foot from the ground when he went straight into the changing room.

“I knew it immediately,” said Rivers. “I felt bad for him, you know, the guy tried to come back for his team, and I just felt bad for him.”

The Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo said that he needed a little to see how severe the injury was, but he knew when he saw that Lillard couldn't go alone.

“This is a competitor, especially for a man like lady,” said Antetocounmpo. “He wants to play in big games. He wants to help the team to win. If you cannot see such a man yourself, you know that this could be serious, and then you hope that it is the best scenario. At the moment we hope that it is the best scenario for him, for his health. This is pretty hard.”

The 34-year-old Lillard missed a significant time late in the season with a deep-vein thrombosis in his right calf, which should turn it off for the rest of the season. In game 2 he returned to the action and in two full games in the playoffs he achieved an average of 10.5 points, 6.0 assists and 3.0 rebounds per game .240/.188/.857 Shooting splits.

“To be honest, it is difficult,” said Rivers. “Blood clot, followed by this, it is only hard … He is simply a great damned guy – at basketball level, especially as a teammate and father and all the stuff.

“Nobody deserves it, but Golly, you only look at him, so I feel bad. It's just hard. I saw injuries to Deflatte teams, but tonight hurts that I thought our boys tried, but it was hard.”

Rivers told reporters that it was difficult for the team at half -time when the players all went to the coach for the first time to see Lillard for the first time after he had initially gone from the ground and wished him all the best, and at the same time tried to hear from the adjustments they had to make in the second half.

The backup Point Guard Kevin Porter Jr. played a larger role for the goats without Lillard and put together his best game in the series with 23 points, four rebounds and five assists, but admitted how difficult it was to see Lillard, a player that he as a teenager adopted, how to be a serious injury on Sunday evening.

“Lady is one of these special ones,” said Porter. “He is very necessary, very effective in every respect. Seeing how he goes down and cannot return is definitely defeated as a brother. To see his work, from his first injury, from which he has just come back, and then the gods told him to have a different trip, but he is a warrior.”

Antetocounmpo repeated this feeling and added that the Bucks Lillard would help in every conceivable way.

“Many people don't see what lady has to do, but I was nearby every day and it is difficult,” said Antetocounmpo, who had 28 points in loss. “It is difficult to be in his position, but he is one of the hardest and mentally hardest people I have ever gave, and that's why he is the one he is, and I think he will overcome any obstacle that stands in front of him. Everyone will be there for him.

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