Damian Lillard reacts to his 60-point performance: 'It was simple' / News - Basketnews.com

Damian Lillard thinks the Jazz came after him too late, which allowed him to have his fourth career 60-point game in a relatively simple manner.

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Damian Lillard scored 60 points against the Utah Jazz last night in what was the most efficient 60+ point performance in NBA history.

Player of the Game EFF 64 Damian Lillard Points 60 Accuracy 21-29 Rebounds 7 Assists 8

He also tied Michael Jordan on the all-time 60-point list while also surpassing Vince Carter on the all-time three-pointers list. Talking after the game, the Portland Trail Blazers superstar didn't think it was that extraordinary.

"Anytime you score 60 points it's special but I think this one I just felt it came pretty simple. I thought I played the game as it should've been played. I knew it was a game that we needed to win so I came out with the mentality to attack and be aggressive but it wasn't like I just came out on fire, it wasn't one of those games," Lillard explained.

"It was just different because it felt so simple. I just went out there and went after it. I was just taking what they gave me. I was just putting energy into the right places. I felt like I was making the right passes, I was attacking the gaps, they were in a drop defense, I was taking the threes, if the paint looked open, I was attacking the paint," the guard said.

Together with LeBron James and Rick Barry, Lillard is now sixth on the all-time list of 50-point games with 14 in his account, surpassed only by Elgin Baylor (17), James Harden (23), Kobe Bryant (25), Jordan (31), and Wilt Chamberlain (118).

"It was pretty simple. I don't want to say it was easy because they have some big bodies and some long defenders out there.

I think I usually get into the groove where I'm just going out, making those simple plays that teams start to come after me sooner. I was kicking it ahead, I was swinging it, it didn't feel like they came after until the very end, I think that's probably why it was the most simple out of all of them," the guard explained.

It was Lillard's third 50+ point game against the Jazz, the most by any player in NBA history.

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