Portland Trail Blazers Damian Lillard hits playoff-record 12 3s in 2OT loss

In quite possibly the most charging postseason exhibitions ever, Damian Lillard had 55 focuses and a NBA season finisher record 12 3-pointers in the Portland Pioneers' twofold extra time misfortune at the Denver Chunks in Game 5 on Tuesday night. 

Lillard broke the record of 11 set by the Brilliant Express Champions' Klay Thompson in 2016 in Game 6 against the Oklahoma City Thunder. 

Lillard played 52 minutes and shot 17-of-24 from the field, including 12-of-17 from 3-point range, however it wasn't sufficient as the Chunks held him off in the subsequent additional time to post a 147-140 triumph and take a 3-2 arrangement lead. 

"It was the best season finisher execution I've at any point seen," Overcoats mentor Terry Stotts said. "He gave it his everything." 

As Pieces mentor Michael Malone said, "Damian Lillard was superhuman this evening." 

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Lillard, on the other hand, dismissed his presentation when he was approached to ponder it. 

"It don't make any difference. We lost the game," Lillard said. "Now, the only thing that is in any way important is we can't lose another game in the arrangement. We go out there and we play to dominate the match, and we missed the mark." 

The record-breaking 3 accompanied 3 minutes, 47 seconds left in twofold extra time as Lillard besieged the Chunks with a progression of profound advance back jumpers to keep the Coats in the game. 

He hit one to attach the score with 3.7 seconds in guideline, which came after an audit toppled a foul on a 3 that would've given Lillard three free tosses. 

He hit another in the principal extra time with 6.6 seconds left over the 6-foot-10 Michael Doorman Jr. to tie the score again and power the subsequent additional casing. That one finished a nine-point rebound in the last two minutes, all drove by Lillard. 

"The level of trouble on which he hit a portion of those shots is god-like," CJ McCollum said. "To have the option to make space and shoot from so out of sight over and over. It's a disgrace we burned through one of the untouched exhibitions by not being more strong for him." 

The Coats' other four starters all scored in twofold figures, however down the stretch, Lillard conveyed the heap. He scored or helped on 37 of the Jackets' last 42 focuses; and for the game, he scored or helped on 80 focuses, tied for the most ever in NBA season finisher history. Lillard's 55 focuses are the third-most focuses ever in a season finisher misfortune. 

"He did all that he could," Jackets forward Robert Covington said. 

The disposition around the Coats' postgame was one of enormous frustration. A large portion of the discussion around Lillard's epic exhibition was diverted to the circumstance the Coats presently wind up in - without much wiggle room. 

"I have compassion for Woman. I have sympathy for anyone in our group," Stotts said. "However, presently's not the ideal opportunity for sympathy. Presently's an ideal opportunity to pull together and return and get Game 6." 

There was a second in the subsequent extra time, with around three minutes to go, when Lillard twisted off a high screen moving to one side and pulled for a modestly open 3. It cut off the front of the edge, skipping off the backboard and under the control of Watchman. Be that as it may, out of the way, Lillard's safeguard, Austin Waterways, set up his hands, looked to the sky and said, "Say thanks to God." 

Imploring appeared to be about the solitary worthy protection there was for Lillard. 

"I'm figuring out how to turn into a decent poker player," Malone said. "Since likely five or six years prior when I originally arrived, I wouldn't have looked so formed." 

Lillard has three profession game-tying or go on 3s inside the last five seconds of the final quarter or extra time, tying Reggie Mill operator for the most in the course of the last 25 seasons. Lillard is additionally the primary part in the previous 25 seasons with numerous game-tying 3s just now of the final quarter or extra time of a season finisher game. He has two profession season finisher games with at any rate 10 3s; the remainder of the NBA has one (Thompson). 

It was a remarkable ricochet back excursion for Lillard, who scored only 10 focuses on 1-of-10 shooting in Game 4; however the Jackets blew Denver out behind a solid guarded execution and adjusted scoring. 

In Game 5, Portland couldn't discover answers for likely class MVP Nikola Jokic, who got done with 38 focuses, 11 bounce back and 9 helps, and a more grounded seat execution drove by Monte Morris (28 focuses and 5 helps). The to and fro among Lillard and Jokic highlighted Lillard scoring or helping on 22 of Portland's 26 focuses in grasp time, with Jokic scoring or helping on 22 of Denver's 31. 

"It was a delight to be on the court to observe that," Jokic said of Lillard's presentation. 

The Pieces corralled Lillard to a degree in the last minutes, with his last bushel accompanying 3:47 leftover that gave Portland an important lead. After a Jokic layup, Doorman Jr. followed it with the inevitable game-victor, a corner 3 set up by Jokic to give the Chunks an important lead. It was a major reaction from Doorman Jr., who scored 26 on 10-of-13 shooting in the wake of being tested by Malone before the game. 

"I can't let a group or strategy remove me from a game, similar to what occurred in Game 4," Doorman Jr. said. "Despite the fact that they're doing a truly difficult task on me, I must keep on aiding my group any way I can." 

The arrangement turns around to Portland on Thursday for Game 6. 

"Extreme misfortune, man," Lillard said. "It's sink or swim now." 

Los Angeles Lakers smothered by Phoenix Suns in Game 5, one misfortune from end 

PHOENIX - The Los Angeles Lakers' recurrent title trusts are in a coma after Tuesday's 115-85 shellacking by the Phoenix Suns in Game 5 of their Western Meeting first-round arrangement, putting L.A. one misfortune away from end. 

"We'll discover what we're made of and we'll discover how terrible we need this," Lakers mentor Candid Vogel said a short time later when asked how his group will react in Game 6. 

With Anthony Davis sidelined with a stressed crotch, the Suns utilized a 16-0 altercation the primary quarter to assume responsibility for the game and kept the conduits open from that point. 

The Lakers were outscored 32-10 in the subsequent quarter and followed 66-36 at the half. The 30-point edge addressed the biggest halftime deficiency of LeBron James' postseason profession and the second-biggest halftime shortage in the season finisher history of the Lakers establishment. 

It is likewise the first run through in James' profession that his group has lost two sequential games in a first-round arrangement. His 14-0 record in first-round season finisher arrangement is in hazard, except if L.A. can dominate two successive matches to finish things off, beginning with Game 6 on Thursday at Staples Center. 

"We got our butt kicked. It's simply that straightforward," James said. "They got to anything they desired to get to in this game. We had the chance to be better, clearly, on the off chance that we need to drive a Game 7." 

As huge a test the seventh-cultivated Lakers are presently looking against the second-cultivated Suns, they do have James on their side, whose 33.7 focuses per game normal in postseason end games is the most noteworthy in NBA history. 

"That is to say, it's in a real sense win or return home by then," James said when asked what has permitted him to reliably act around there. "Along these lines, you shoot every one of the shots you got and toss the firearm, as well. In this way, I anticipate the climate. 

"Clearly our Laker dedicated will give us a ton of energy, and I anticipate the occasion, anticipate the test, and we'll check whether it draws out the best in me and my partners." 

On Tuesday, the Lakers were even from a pessimistic standpoint. The game was far off before halftime, as the Suns opened the second quarter with a 21-2 spray to heap on their important lead after the first. 

"They just took the battle to us, man," said Markieff Morris, who began in Davis' place however completed the night with only four focuses and one bounce back in a short time. "I feel like we got the game going somewhat reluctant. We required everyone to be forceful without Advertisement in the game. I feel like we were truly detached right off the bat. I feel like we weren't assaulting them. They were assaulting us." 

When the subsequent quarter was finished, the victory was in full impact, with Devin Booker effectively without any help outscoring the Lakers' starters 22-16; Phoenix outrebounding L.A. 23-18; the Lakers hacking up eight turnovers, prompting 15 Phoenix focuses (contrasted with only one turnover for the Suns); and L.A. shooting 3-for-15 from 3-point range (20%) contrasted and Phoenix shooting 8-for-18 (44.4%). 

James got done with 24 focuses on 9-for-19 shooting (6-for-10 from 3) and seven helps, scoring 17 of those focuses in the second from last quarter when he played everything except 17 seconds, and L.A. outscored the Suns 27-26. James and the remainder of the Lakers' first unit didn't play in the fourth. 

James and Davis didn't complete the game on the seat, going to the storage space to start their treatment about halfway through the last quarter. 

"What was going through my brain was, 'They're beating us senseless,'" James said when asked what he and Davis were thinking as the last minutes ticked off the check while they were in the storage space. "However, toward the day's end, it's one game. It's one game, and they did what they should do. They held serve at home, and we return and we have a chance to even the arrangement back out once more. That was actually the two things that were going on in my psyche." 

Outside of James, large numbers of the Lakers battled powerfully. Dennis Schroder went 0-for-9 (0-for-4 from 3) for zero focuses, while Kentavious Caldwell-Pope missed the solitary shot he made an out of 15 minutes of move before his sensitive left knee finished his night rashly. Alex Caruso, Wesley Matthews and Ben McLemore joined to shoot 3-for-18. 

"I couldn't say whether I'm watching film on that one," Schroder said. "I think we had the chance to flush that one, stay positive and be better in Game 6." 

Morris, then again, accepted that a film meeting will be important in L.A's. game prep for Thursday. 

Utah Jazz proprietor Ryan Smith has given free passes to courtside seats, dwelling and a vehicle administration for a gathering of loved ones of Memphis Grizzlies star watch Ja Morant for Wednesday's Down 5 in Salt Lake City, Morant's dad, Tee, told ESPN. 

The Jazz restricted three fans uncertainly from Vivint Field a week ago after Ja Morant's folks were the objectives of independent bigot and foul remarks during Game 2. 

"It was a pleasant signal from the Jazz," Tee Morant said by telephone. "It was lamentable. It was only a couple fans - the majority of them were incredible and cheering right close by with us."