Rivers shocked by Lillard performance in Portland return

Doc Rivers said he could not imagine how difficult it was for Damian Lillard to return to face Portland

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00:00 Yeah, he played better than I thought he could.

00:03 I don't know.

00:05 Listen, these games are tough games.

00:08 The home team always wants to beat the star coming back.

00:12 That's 100% and you can see it in their jubilation after the game.

00:16 They, I don't know how many directions he's been pulled over the last 48 hours.

00:23 Coming home, getting to spend time with his kids,

00:27 getting a court named after him with Adidas.

00:32 Seeing his family.

00:34 I don't, when I came back to Atlanta as a player and no one said hi.

00:38 [LAUGH] You know what I mean?

00:40 Like, I don't imagine I was talking to a couple of guys who have gone through that.

00:46 And it's rough, it's tough, but I thought Dame weathered it pretty well.