Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard isn't done clapping back at Oklahoma City Thunder star Paul George, who called his series-clinching buzzer-beater in Game 5 “a bad shot.”

In his interview with Pull Up podcast hosts CJ McCollum and Jordan Schultz, Lillard called George a poor sport, adding that if there was anything bad during the closing moments of the game, it was his defense (h/t to PBT):

“For him to say that’s a bad shot, that’s just kind of being a poor sport. If anything, it was bad defense, because I had the ball in my hands with two seconds, and I wasn’t going to drive, so maybe he should’ve just bodied up.”

Lillard also stood by his recent comments that his game-winner from 37 feet away was a good shot because he was making 30-foot 3-pointers all series:

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“It was a good shot.

“I think a lot of people don’t know what goes into the moments. That’s because they’re not the ones that’s there. I literally work on those shots. And I don’t work on it so I can just come out and just shoot it for the whole game. I work on it just because, over my career, I know how much attention I’m going to get from defenses. So it’s just like you’re just keeping stuff, adding more things, adding more and more, keeping stuff in your pocket, in case these types of situations do present itself. Even if it’s not something you want to lean on, it’s something that you have there, that you worked on, you spent time doing. So, you’ve got confidence in it when the time does come. That’s why, when I was just standing there, I was like, well, it’s probably not good in a lot of people’s eyes. But I’m comfortable with this, and I’m confident in this. So, to me, it’s a solid shot.”

Lillard didn't talk trash to any of the Thunder players, including George and Russell Westbrook, while the series was still ongoing. But now that the Blazers have advanced to the second round, it's Dame's time (no pun intended) to fire back at them.

The only difference this time is that OKC won't be able to do anything about it because they lost the series.