![]() He's actually driving even more than he did in the regular season, when he was fifth overall, but his efficiency has gone in the toilet. He's among the league leaders in total drives and points on drives in the playoffs, but there's a big asterisk there. One thing Lillard is doing a lot of, as you might hope and expect, is driving to the basket. None of his four assists to this point in the series have led to any free throws for his teammates the percentage of made baskets that come from his set-ups are hovering around Aron Baynes-level, according to NBA.com. So far, his pass per game numbers are actually higher than they were in the regular season, but they're leading to potential points at about half the rate. Lillard has never been an assist machine on the order of Chris Paul or Steve Nash, but he is a willing passer. Blazers not named Damian or LaMarcus have attempted just seven free throws so far, and all of them came in Game 1. Perhaps more importantly, those Lillard free throws are a huge proportion of the team's attempts overall in this series. I know, it's like "where did they find all these pictures of Damian Lillard looking upset?" - Photo by Justin Ford-USA TODAY Sports It's easy-and, to an extent, fair-to chalk the offensive slump up to the Wes Matthews-shaped hole in the Blazers backcourt and the buzzsaw that is the Grizzlies perimeter defense. (It seems unfair to note that Lillard is dead last among all players in shooting percentage to this point, but I trust you knew it intuitively.) ![]() Conley, for his part, has shot merely 55 percent from the floor, second among starting point guards this postseason. Grizzlies backup Beno Udrih had a perfectly competent year as an extended fill-in for Mike Conley, but he's looked positively Maravichian in this matchup it takes nothing away from Udrih to note that any NBA guard would do well against Lillard's present screen-door-hanging-on-one-hinge defensive approach. His shot has abandoned him, and his already lackluster defense has regressed to comical levels. This puts the burden of stifling free speech not on state lawmakers, but on local school districts under threat of defunding - a tactic gaining popularity with Republican lawmakers with a pro-white racial agenda who previously defunded the City of Memphis for removing Confederate monuments.Right now, though, Lillard looks uncharacteristically meek and quite reasonably frustrated. The law allows anyone who objects to anything to file a complaint, and if that complaint is confirmed to violate lawmakers' deliberately vague policy, the Department of Education is required to remove funding from a school district. ![]() Sanford expects it will not affect his election bid to the District 91 seat.įinally, the so-called Tennessee ban on Critical Race Theory in public and charter schools goes into effect in August, though lawmakers refused to explicitly state what topics of conversation or elements of American history must be avoided in order to not offend children, parents, staffers or school board members with regard to race or sex. ![]() ![]() This week, Democratic State Representative Torrey Harris was arrested in Nashville after getting into a domestic dispute with an ex-boyfriend. But she will likely defeat her Republican and Independent challengers in the August 4 election. Memphis Political analyst Otis Sanford says the story might be different had the mismanagement come to light sooner. By the time it became widely known that thousands of people weren't receiving their new Tennessee plates because of a backup at the Shelby County Clerk's office, Wanda Halbert had already won her reelection primary. The license plate debacle was slow to make headlines. ![]()
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