自从波特兰开拓者队在季后赛第一轮被一支精疲力竭的丹佛掘金队淘汰后，人们一直在猜测达米安·利拉德的未来。
然而，利拉德带着“信念”进入本赛季，开拓者正朝着正确的方向前进。
“我认为这些年来我们一直有一支充满竞争力的球队，我认为我们会再次充满竞争力，”利拉德周一在球队的媒体日上说。“显然，在上赛季末，我希望看到我们的阵容得到改善。我希望我们有更好的机会赢得比赛。整个夏天，我们都在谈论这是什么样子，以及我们如何朝着这个方向迈出一步。我带着信心来到这个赛季，相信这会发生。”
而开拓者队
利拉德说：“我们已经建立了一个团队，作为一个组织，我们不想仅仅为了说‘我做了一个改变’而去做什么。”。“你想让它与一些能让我们变得更好的东西保持一致，一些能让我们达到我们努力达到的水平的东西。我们做了一些我喜欢的事情。我没想到我们会在那里突然得到凯文·杜兰特。”
原标题：
Damian Lillard Enters Season 'With Faith' Blazers Moving In Right Direction
原文：
Since the Portland Trail Blazers were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by a depleted Denver Nuggets team, there has been speculation about the future of Damian Lillard.
Lillard enters the season, however, with "faith" that the Blazers are going in the right direction.
"I think over the years we've always had a competitive team, I think we'll be competitive again," Lillard said Monday at the team's media day. "Obviously, at the end of last season I wanted to see our roster improve. I wanted us to have a better chance to win. And we had our conversations throughout the summer about what that looked like, and how we could take steps in that direction. I come into this season with faith that that's going to happen."
While the Blazers
"We've established so much as a team and as an organization, we don't want to just go do something to just to say, 'I made a change,'" Lillard said. "You want it to be in line with something that could actually make us better, something that could send us to the level that we're trying to get to. We've done some things that I like. I didn't expect us to go out there and get Kevin Durant of the sudden."
