One offensive possession was all it took for Giannis Antetokounmpo to know playing with Damian Lillard would be special.
“I’ll be very honest,” Antetokounmpo said about playing with Lillard. “I’ve never been this open. And first of all, I’ve never seen anybody being double-teamed from the first possession of the game.”
Lillard expressed a similar sentiment to his Milwaukee Bucks teammate.
“Having another guy out there that’s just dominant,” Lillard said of Antetokounmpo. “He can dominate a game and win you a game. … First couple plays, they blitz me, they trap me and the guy that I’m releasing the ball to is Giannis. So, I’m just like, ‘Uh, we can do this all night.’ You know what I mean?”