Bobby Portis Press Conference | 2.11.24

Bobby Portis Press Conference | 2.11.24

Second second practice with with Doc um kind of able to use some stuff from the last one immediately uh what does what does that kind of do uh for you all where where you’re getting some practice you’re getting some install uh but you’re also able to maybe apply it

Immediately and see some success yeah um I mean obviously just to come in and um just just R things out um you know talk through some things um watch some film clean some things up I think it’s always good just to um see it on on tape a lot more uh you know

When you’re in game uh things move so fast the ball moves so fast that sometimes you don’t you don’t see things sometimes but uh it’s good to get in practice and you know things slow down and have a coach that automatically tells you what he expects and what he wants uh kind of

Makes it uh more simple for the guys on the on on the floor and the guys coming um Off the Bench to automatically know uh what’s expected um of them on a daily basis and what our um you know what our principles is that he’s trying to uh you know put

In uh he mentioned the other day guys had a film session that he said didn’t go Bobby nter anything but it probably wasn’t fun um what do it like to have a coach like that that is willing to get you and kind of tell you what’s going on

And what you see I think it’s U really really needed um especially the point of the Season where we at um what we’re 53 games in it’s 29 games left feel like the season just wind it down you know so fast and things come so fast at you that

Uh kind of need a guy a coach just to keep it real with you on what’s going on uh he don’t fake the funk he calls it how he sees it and you have to ultimately respect that I think it kind of makes you better as a player and I

Know me as a guy I’ve always had coaches that’s always been on me um always pushed me to be the best I can be um on the team I’m on and U happy to have doc as our coach uh I think he’s done a hell of a job obviously we might have lost

Some games or whatever it was and people make a big deal out of but I think and even in the games we’ve lost I think we’ve kind of trended in the right direction and that’s all you can really ask for uh know right now and uh I think

We’re um our team is just continuing to get better and you know Finding uh trying to find the Rhythm what in what ways do you feel your team’s gotten better in the last two um I think we made big strides on the defensive end of the floor I think we’ve kind of

Simplified things to make it better for you know the the guys that’s on our team um not trying to get in too many scrumble situations just trying to keep the ball in front of us more I think that’s been a big emphasis and think that’s been working um obviously against

You know Minnesota has some slippage first game back off a road trip always tough don’t make any excuses but I think besides that I think we’ve played you know great defense and been in games where we could have won and think our defense has held up and kept us in games

Where maybe we should have won but we didn’t but uh tip your to the other team they win and you move on practices themselves what’s the biggest difference in these practices under dog compared to maybe what you would typically have a practice this time of year um I think

More times than none This Time of the Season where it’s February Allstar break is next week um you don’t want to probably do too much it’s more of a teaching thing where uh guys are learning um you know where to cut on certain plays if a guy pops if you’re

The middle guy in the slot line then you might want to cut because the DHL to the corner is going to get opened up it’s a two on two situation where you have to read and react and play off of guys I think we starting to figure that aspect

Of the game where on offense It Isn’t So Much clogged up where um if you pop then there’s a guy right there that’s stunning at you for the for the three or whatever it is if that makes sense so I think we’ve cleaned up a lot um especially today extended practice where

Uh we know exactly what they want from us and that’s big man as a competitor as a basketball player to know um exactly what’s expected of you um to impact your team in a in a good way uh what’s the you you someone who always talks about

Peing at the right time right play your best back in this scenario what is the right time when is the right time I’m sure if this was yeah 3 years ago you say oh well normally whatever is it different now is it are you looking at April March

Or what’s no I think um basketball just stays the same Man U the NBA season stays the same um the teams that generally Peak around April May are the teams that go on and go further you know um so I think us it’s about just building our habits on a daily basis

Trending in the right Direction but wanting to Peak late March early April to be the best we can be uh like last year we were rolling around this time might might have won 16 17 15 straight games and then it didn’t really matter you know like so I think um we got to

Take the good with the bad um obviously we don’t want to lose games but I think with with you know limited practice time I think we kind of try things in the game that we probably wouldn’t normally do you know like we trying new things because you know there isn’t no such

Thing as I want to say no such thing as practice but like there’s just no time for it you know you get off a road trip you know 11 days the day you get back is a travel day so you can’t practice that day then you go right into it back to

Back like you know what I’m saying so it’s like where’s the time to build it the our time to build it is in game situations and I think we’re been cool with that obviously we lost some games where we probably should have won but I think we’re trending in the right

Direction then um if you’re a fan of basketball and you know the game I think that you can see that I mean you’ve been the May Milwaukee now for a couple years are you worried about n man it’s it’s a different man like you know I seen

Somebody tweet that like he’s in the running he could take a spot whatever it is it’s just different man like you know we two different people obviously we we play with the edge or intensity whatever it is but uh n it’s just different bro I

I I can’t even explain it man it’s just you got to be me to know it man you know it’s just different man just play that it’s great man um first first and foremost man shout out to Pat BFF um Arkansas alumni you know that’s my pride

And soul you know so having a guy that’s from you know he not from where I’m from but he went to school where I went to school at uh place you know with a ass like I do and man you know just it’s fun just to have another guy out there to

Take the technicals from me man you know he can have that you know saying you know say just have another guy go out there and just you know mix the game up a little mck the game up man sometimes you know you can’t go out there and hit

25 threes man sometimes you got to get your hands dirty you know at Aransas do he ever come back to campus you ever see n man but but uh we had an athletic trainer Dave England I think I think he’ll be very excited I said his name on

The camera you know Dave England he’s a long time um trainer of Arkansas there um through all the good times that we had bad times as well 30-year trainer U he actually retired U four three four or five years ago U he was both our athletic trainers so he definitely told

Me plenty Pat Bell stories um in my two years at Arkansas that’s definitely one of his favorite players

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