{"id":409930,"date":"2022-10-22T15:47:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T15:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=409930"},"modified":"2022-10-22T15:48:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T15:48:15","slug":"heres-what-damian-lillard-told-deandre-ayton-that-made-him-miss-the-crucial-free-throw-leading-to-blazers-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/heres-what-damian-lillard-told-deandre-ayton-that-made-him-miss-the-crucial-free-throw-leading-to-blazers-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s What Damian Lillard Told DeAndre Ayton That Made Him Miss the Crucial Free-Throw Leading to Blazers Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday night, the Portland Trail Blazers held on to upset the Phoenix Suns, 113-111, in overtime. The biggest play of the evening wasn&#8217;t actually a play. Instead, with only 1.2 seconds left, Damian Lillard hit DeAndre Ayton in the head.<\/p>\n<p>Jusuf Nurkic, a center for the Portland Trail Blazers, fouled DeAndre Ayton with 1.2 seconds left in overtime, sending the Phoenix Sun&#8217;s center to the foul line. Anfernee Simons&#8217; powerful hook shot had just given the Blazers a two-point lead, but Ayton had a chance to force a second overtime.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mH_q7TzasL8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Damian Lillard approached Ayton at the free-throw line and asked him a straightforward question. Lillard ended the game with 41 points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: <a title=\"Jalen Brunson Yet to Commit a Turnover as New York Knicks Blow Out Detroit Pistons at Home\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/jalen-brunson-yet-to-commit-a-turnover-as-new-york-knicks-blow-out-detroit-pistons-at-home\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Jalen Brunson Yet to Commit a Turnover as New York Knicks Blow Out Detroit Pistons at Home<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Damian Lillard reveals what he told DeAndre Ayton during Suns vs Blazers<\/h2>\n<p>Ayton struggled after scoring 26 points and recording a crucial block earlier in the night. His second try produced the same outcome as his first, which bricked off the rim.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;You think they trust you with the game on the line? Hell nah&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5LYiwFLoii\">pic.twitter.com\/5LYiwFLoii<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u231a\ufe0f (@BradenEscobedoP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BradenEscobedoP\/status\/1583699325246267392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI just asked him, \u2018have you ever been in this situation before?\u2019 I wanted him to think about it a little bit,\u201d<\/em> Lillard <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrennaGreene_\/status\/1583711585935437826?s=20&amp;t=UTE02AsgzdHjEmTGuD8sjg\">said postgame<\/a>. <em>\u201cAnd then when he ignored me, I felt like he was thinking about it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Damian Lillard on what he said to Deandre Ayton at the foul line at the end: &quot;I just asked him, &#39;have you ever been in this situation before?&#39; I wanted him to think about it a little bit. And then when he ignored me, I felt like he was thinking about it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sean Highkin (@highkin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/highkin\/status\/1583695147295916032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ayton missed his second try at the line, giving the Suns their first loss of the year after converting 80% of his free throws in crucial situations the previous year. After the game, Devin Booker (33 points on 11 of 23 shooting) dismissed Ayton&#8217;s miss. Given that Ayton made his first free throw, it obviously worked.<\/p>\n<p>The second intentional miss actually went to the Suns, who missed a shot at the buzzer, and the Blazers fans were happy to return home. 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The biggest play of the evening wasn&#8217;t actually a play. Instead, with only 1.2 seconds left, Damian Lillard hit DeAndre Ayton in the head. Jusuf Nurkic, a center for the Portland Trail Blazers, fouled DeAndre Ayton with 1.2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":274755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,93,92],"tags":[342,509],"class_list":["post-409930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-phoenix-suns","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-damian-lillard","tag-deandre-ayton"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}