Damian Lillard on Patrick Beverley's antics: It’s irritating

Damian Lillard could not finish the game against the Rockets because he was fouled out early in the overtime.

Per CSNNW, It’s irritating,” Lillard told CSNNW.com. “But I was locked into the game to be one hundred percent honest with you. It’s irritating that he’s doing all that little stuff like flopping, tying you up and all that for the whole game. But I don’t really get caught up in that. It’s whatever.”

Beverley, who takes exceptional pride in his defense, said all he’s concerned with is the win before he addressed what Lillard considers to be “antics.”

“If he thinks I’m flopping, that’s on him, not me,” Beverley told CSNNW.com. “We won. That’s all I care about.”

The two even got tangled up late in the fourth quarter and had to be separated as they where jawing at one another. Beverley, who has a broken nose, took off his protective mask as if he wanted to do more than play basketball.

“It’s basketball,” Beverley said. “That’s how basketball is. It’s not going to be pretty all the time.”