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Following Monday night’s 108-107 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard vented his frustration about the lack of free throws he and the team earned.
Sam Ekstrom of Zonecoverage.com had the transcript of Lillard’s comments immediately after the game.
Damian Lillard was NOT happy with the officials tonight. pic.twitter.com/VaHdHoSmYk
— Sam Ekstrom (@SamEkstrom) December 19, 2017
The Trail Blazers attempted five total free throws (one of which was a technical foul) to the Timberwolves’ 21 total attempts. If you’re wondering how often a team takes 5 or less free throws, we looked that up too:
It just so happens that we can look these things up now
— Danny Marang (@DMarang) December 19, 2017
Since '63-'64 there have been 82 games in which a team shot 5 or less FTs.
So, less than one half of one percent of games over the past 50+ years have had a game of less than 5 FTA
(per @bball_ref)https://t.co/beUzdV6sIh
The Blazers shot 55% from the field in the game, 42% from the three-point arc, holding Minnesota to 47% and 37%, respectively.