Bobby Portis Press Conference | 3.16.24

Bobby Portis Press Conference | 3.16.24

When you look at this last stretch of games what’s one or two areas where you feel like still need to improve upon um I think one just still trusting trusting offense trusting the flow uh making the right reads out of um how the defense is playing us uh keep trending in the right

Direction on the defensive end I feel like um over the break uh not the break but over the West Coast trp we kind of you know took a step back just a little bit uh got to get that back intact cuz obviously um defense is what helps you

Win in the playoffs different schemes different lineups whatever it is those two in particular and then just getting our boy back Chris man getting him in the groove man can’t wait to hoop with him man he’s a big piece to what we do around here so having him back in the

For whenever he comes back going to be a big a big get for us what specifically with his presence on the floor helps his his basketball IQ is is high that’s one thing that’s kind of underrated about him um just besides his basketball game you know he his big shots mid-range King

Get to his spot post uh shoot the three three level score uh can go on their own about him but I think one thing that kind of stands out to me personally is just his basketball C how fast he reads the defense makes the right plays I love

Setting him a screen CU I know he’s going to throw the ball you know so uh yeah so things like that so yeah selflessly man can’t wait for my boy to get back out there would you consider you guys a consistent team at this point

Um kind of sort of I feel like we still have got some some work to do obviously uh 15 with 15 games left now crazy to say like 15 games crazy Seasons go by so fast but you know I think we are trending to be a consistent team um we

Still have I want to say a long way to go because there’s not a long way to go in the season but I feel like we’re getting there game by game we’re getting better obviously like I said took a little step back with our defense and

The West Coast trip but up trip man you know you play Golden State then you play both La teams and the Kings no you know excuses made but great basketball teams to play against great games to play in as well but I think that we can still

Trend to get there you talked about Chris passing did you did I hear you after one game you were walking out team you never got an Alle here in Milwaukee I missed one too like a couple weeks ago Pat Bill threw me one and I just tried to like

Know car me get in throw it in I try to do like that then it came out like what’s the odds that like real like what’s the odd of that happening bro like get what I’m saying like what’s the odd of me missing it like so yeah I’m I’m for one

Yeah I’m I don’t remember me catching one in my first three years at all do you probably a crazy stat too yeah over over for one 0% yeah yeah yeah 0% yeah yeah yeah over one for show yeah do you mind if I ask you this I know your priorities

Winning in playoffs and I know the big picture I understand you but um I want to do something on jiannis being up for MVP yeah and the reason why is I think he’s battled through four or five injuries he keeps playing he says it’s he wants to be there for the team and

All that just get your thoughts on that he’s 29 the average age for the MVP years is like 26 to 27 and all just what are your thoughts on playing with him and his kind of like the Iron Man mentality he might be doing yeah um you

Know I think he’s kind of getting you know I don’t want to compare the guys but he kind of getting like the LeBron treatment a little bit to where like the things he’s doing they kind of just used to it now so it’s like yeah he’s

Supposed to do that you get know what I’m saying like like LeBron in his years with you know early in Cleveland and then when he went to Miami you feel me it’s like oh like he’s just supposed to do that like it’s just what people’s gotten used to watching so um you know

Obviously he’s a dominant player um you know without him obviously you know wouldn’t be who we are so uh mean I think that kind of speaks for itself in that sense but he’s a great player uh makes the team better uh you know competes on a daily basis um you know

Works hard in on the court off the court uh in the weight room does all the little things on a daily basis to keep his body right you feel me so um I just think sometimes in the media world you know guys just get bored sometimes with watching the same thing and want

Something new um I mean that’s just like just life in general man you don’t want to keep eating Frosted Flakes all the time man you want to get some cinnamon toast crunch you feel me like get what I’m saying like you want to try a little different flavor sometimes so um yeah I

Get it and that’s just how to course world works over the years kind of become the master of the let you do and clear that you’re good at it was someone as quick as Maxi how do you try to approach that obviously there’s varing levels of guards what they’re going to do if

They’re going to try to you know explode past you if they’re try to take a pull up like how do you try to handle that is it a player by player situation or is it just like a general mindset yeah so like it is a player by Player thing I know

Like certain guys are quicker than others and certain guys like to turn the corner so um when I run up into to the pick and row I try to uh be attach to my man as much as I can because the more separation I have with my man I’m

Probably probably hit the pocket real fast or the bike can speed by me so I try to be attached as I can and try to impact the ball as much just to get a guard as much time as possible to get back in front then I can get back to my

Man um really just Personnel who it is I know Maxi loves to turn the corner right so if I come up and I call left I try to cut the sideline off as much as possible so the guard can just help me out and team thing for real like obviously I do

My part in it but without the guards and the low man help I couldn’t do what I do

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