This argument was always baloney, but especially funny now that he has gone to Milwaukee, a top team in the East and one who had won a championship only two years earlier, and now in two years they are a dis-masted wreck and being forced to trade their generational superstar. When you pay a player a supermax contract, you don't talk about how that team would do without him. He is supposed to lead the team to playoff runs. But not Lillard. He needs the 90's Chicago Bulls as teammates in order to do anything in the playoffs.pezsez1 wrote: Sun Feb 15, 2026 11:49 am Dame never had a Portland team that could have made the playoffs without him.
Now he's on one that might reach the playoffs without him.
Excited to see what Dame and Deni can do together!
This is Deni and Shaedon's team. If for some stupid reason they let Lillard take over, they will continue the first-round exits that have defined his career. The best thing to do with him at this point is to platoon him with Jrue and maybe he will learn something about defense from the guy who wiped the floor with him for a decade.
