Bobby Portis Press Conference | 1.10.24

Bobby Portis Press Conference | 1.10.24

The bench units and second whatever it’s not always about scoring but since the first of the year it’s it’s been a little lopsided in terms of bench scoring is there have you seen anything with like the second unit group that’s just sort of uh it’s been a little tough

To to get the ball in the basket as often as as you have or as you’d like um I mean we made shots it’s basketball I mean that’s how the game go you know some days you make them some days you don’t we had a rough what seven

Days to start the year but who’s to say the next seven to 10 to how many days going not going to go our way it’s basketball you put the work in put the time in you don’t make no excuses you live with the results of misses and

Makes but you still come to the gym and put the work in um we ain’t tripping on that man we just ain’t made shots but we’ll we’ll make him here soon especially myself I know I ain’t going to say struggling cuz I don’t call it strugg struggle I just call it just miss

I shoot the same shots every day I shoot in practice and I just ain’t make them does it help that I mean since you and PC and and cam are vet and been through this that it is that that you don’t risk pressing you know what I mean like it’s

Oh I haven’t made shots in three games so I’m going to maybe try to get go outside of yourself you guys have been doing this long enough that that’s not a concern I ain’t going to lie like this my ninth year in the NBA so I play like

Over like 700 something games and like this probably like my first stretch of like oh I ain’t really made shots like who cares like we just ain’t made shots we haven’t won the biggest thing is getting wins like we just ain’t W games and we just trying to win and get better

On a daily basis and we’re focused on tomorrow which is Boston whatever happened in the past I try to let it you know a 12:00 rule been having that rule since I was like 13 years old one of my a youth coaches ctis Williamson um he implemented that with us like at 12:00

You got let the game go you know whatever happened during the game game during your two hours you played 20 minutes you play 16 minutes you play however long you play you let that go you move on and we have a great team of Savvy vets who’s been in the league over

A course of time that you know we don’t hang our hats on misses we hang our our our heads down when we lose cuz we care but misses and makes you know you going to miss and make shots you going to play a th000 games in this leag you going to

Play 500 games in this leag you going to play 10 years you going to miss a thousand shots so you can’t get mad at a Miss U that I was talking to you about the fact that I mean when they were in the Bradley Center I definitely heard

People boo yeah cuz the team wasn’t as good uh but it’s pretty rare to hear Boo and we deserved it though bro we deserved it I mean we down 30 at home one of the best teams over the last couple years not what guys are used to probably probably not what guys what

Fans have come accustomed to seeing and we deserved it you know um sometimes you got to take it on the on the chin man we wasn’t playing good basketball haven’t been playing good basketball as of late but um over the last couple days we’ve cleaned a lot of

Things up we feel good going into tomorrow and that’s how we can you know do um you know we don’t feel a way about the boobs we kind of deserve those at the moment um when you look at what’s been May going wrong recently what are

You kind of C I mean man we just gota get on the same page get on the same um you know same page man we got to clean up a lot of things we get our running habits got to start running a lot more spring to the corner sacrific

And cuts and things like that getting Guys open um you know making shots is one thing as well we got a lot of shots that go in and out I had a lot of shots go in and out last couple games so uh we got to make shots open the floor up for

You know our our guys that start and things like that but um I think for the most part it’s just getting our swag getting our swag back getting back to being who we are uh having fun with the game uh you know can’t think too much about it when something goes wrong or

Putting pressing too much on one little thing when when instance go wrong you got to have fun with this game man when you have fun when you play with swag when you play with energy the ball finds energy um and you know I think the basketball guys you know God reward guys

To go out there and you know go out there and play the game the right way uh what do you feel like you learned last time we get to Celtics um you know obviously we went to their crib I learned that we can fight from back down

Big we can come back um I’ve learned that we can’t just dig ourselves in a hole um you know start the game off and and exert so much energy trying to come back um obviously we know their tendency they’re going to switch one through five they’re going to mck the game up they’re

Going to try to take you out all your actions and things like that they’re great three-point shooting basketball team they Swing Swing the ball kind of moves faster than you can move on the court so you have to be really disciplined on defense but you know

They’re a great team so uh you know team we’ve been battling against the last 3 4 years and uh it doesn’t stop we keep it going and you know it’s what you play for man big games big moments stars are out um you know what better place to be

Than you know the Bucks versus the Celtics you mentioned the having to come back against the Celtics you had to do that the last couple games as well do do you see similarities seems like some of the struggles the team this year have been those those slow r2c um um I think

That we just got to bring put more into it bring more energy to the game uh you know not cruise into the game and you know let the game come to us sometimes you just got to go take the game man you got to go enforce your will enforce who

You are on the game um that’s what good teams do you don’t sit back and just let the game come you go take it and that’s in this league you have to do that man there’s great teams all over a nightly basis where you know in dog fights guys

Are bringing their eight games with us like they’re getting all their rest they’re getting n 10 hours of sleep I don’t know they don’t they don’t run out of energy you feel me so um you can’t just cruise into a game thinking that you know you’re going to win it you got

To go out there and take the game and enforce you know your game plan enforce your will enforce your you know your team on the other team and go out there and just dominate man that’s really it how it is man not just you know stepping

Into the game and cruising um you know kicking it in gear early as someone who gets plenty of vations from bus fans do you kind of expect something like that for Drew or for sure bro um know saw our brother played with him three years here with the bucks for

Three years the sacrifice he’s gave not only to the basketball court but to the city is you know you know Second To None man he’s a great guy family man I want to be like Drew Drew holiday man you know great family great guy for all the right reasons

Um NBA champion um you know just a great overall person and um kind of funny to see him on the other side wearing a different shade of green but you know still my guy but you know when the ball goes up all that goes out the way and

It’s time to get a dub but you know aside the basketball court you know my brother for life our names forever graved engraved forever together and someone who I can lean on for advice someone I can lean on just for you know just to talk to so great guy even better person

Brook Lopez speaks with media following Wednesday’s practice.

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