Bucks sign Bobby Portis

emunney · Post #201 » by **emunney** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:04 pm

Watched that dirty plays thing people were talking about. Dangerous habit of swinging at the ball when guys jump. There are 5 clips, first three are eh, 4th one is pretty bad, 5th one is really scary and ugly (Sato lands on his head). Kind of like the Grayson Allen tripping thing where there are some clips where it's clearly intentional and some where it'd be questionable by itself, but there are so many of them that they're all equally suspect. At any rate this is definitely a downside for me.

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Brewhoopfan · Post #202 » by **Brewhoopfan** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:16 pm

Bucksfan28 wrote:If he can sustain that >36% 3pt shooting, dude will be a nice fallback when Splash Mountain hits a cold streak.

36% is the floor.

Brewhoopfan · Post #203 » by **Brewhoopfan** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:19 pm

emunney wrote:Watched that dirty plays thing people were talking about. Dangerous habit of swinging at the ball when guys jump. There are 5 clips, first three are eh, 4th one is pretty bad, 5th one is really scary and ugly (Sato lands on his head). Kind of like the Grayson Allen tripping thing where there are some clips where it's clearly intentional and some where it'd be questionable by itself, but there are so many of them that they're all equally suspect. At any rate this is definitely a downside for me.

Watch on YouTube

Yeah, the arm swinging is a really terrible habit. He especially likes to wind it up while the feet stop. Basically, the anti-Ersan.

Bucksfan28 · Post #204 » by **Bucksfan28** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:29 pm

Brewhoopfan wrote:
Bucksfan28 wrote:If he can sustain that >36% 3pt shooting, dude will be a nice fallback when Splash Mountain hits a cold streak.

36% is the floor.

Hes been at or above that for a few years now. I wont fret if hes at 35%, whats more ideal to me is that he doesnt go through long slumps of abysmal shooting.

LUKE23 · Post #205 » by **LUKE23** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:30 pm

.360 is the expected, that's his career percentage.

emunney · Post #206 » by **emunney** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:19 pm

Let's just pencil him in for 45%

Turk Nowitzki · Post #207 » by **Turk Nowitzki** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:24 pm

My hope for Portis is that being on a team that isn't a complete disaster will help him. He's been on nothing but trash teams his entire career and that has to build some bad habits.

Post #208 » by **Prez** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:31 pm

Haven’t really had a talented bucket getter off the bench in the Bud era outside of that nice little playoff stretch Hill had couple years ago. Think Augustin and him will form a nice bench duo, those two with one of Jrue/Khris/Giannis and we should see fewer scoring droughts

I really don’t like Forbes so if we could make a midseason move for another defensive wing think it’ll round out the bench nicely

theFireBlanket · Post #209 » by **theFireBlanket** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:39 pm

Maybe Giannis wanted to punch out Nikola too & that's why they signed Bobby.

crkone · Post #210 » by **crkone** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:48 pm

emunney wrote:Let's just pencil him in for 45%

And 25% in the postseason.

Bernman · Post #211 » by **Bernman** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:32 pm

crkone wrote:
emunney wrote:Let's just pencil him in for 45%

And 25% in the postseason.

In his one postseason series (6 games) he shot 46% (6-13). And in the regular season he's never shot under 30%. 35.9 and up the last 4 seasons. So don't know the basis for that projection he'd shoot 25%.

emunney · Post #212 » by **emunney** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:35 pm

Bernman wrote:
crkone wrote:
emunney wrote:Let's just pencil him in for 45%

And 25% in the postseason.

In his one postseason series (6 games) he shot 46% (6-13). And in the regular season he's never shot under 30%. 35.9 and up the last 4 seasons. So don't know the basis for that projection he'd shoot 25%.

He's never been a Buck before.

Bernman · Post #213 » by **Bernman** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:36 pm

Prez wrote:Haven’t really had a talented bucket getter off the bench in the Bud era outside of that nice little playoff stretch Hill had couple years ago. Think Augustin and him will form a nice bench duo, those two with one of Jrue/Khris/Giannis and we should see fewer scoring droughts

I really don’t like Forbes so if we could make a midseason move for another defensive wing think it’ll round out the bench nicely

Yeah, a good 3+d wing who may be able to start if DiVo can't justify it, & can match up w/ the talented big wings of the league you usually see in the playoffs, would not only round out the roster, it's what this team has been missing for years.

Bernman · Post #214 » by **Bernman** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:38 pm

emunney wrote:He's never been a Buck before.

I didn't get that was the point. But outside of Bledsoe, players typically don't drop off precipitously, to the tune of -15%. Wouldn't count DiVincenzo in a bubble.

higharc · Post #215 » by **higharc** » Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:03 pm

theFireBlanket wrote:Maybe Giannis wanted to punch out Nikola too & that's why they signed Bobby.

We all wanted to punch him after the 2019 Toronto series....

LuessiT · Post #216 » by **LuessiT** » Tue Nov 24, 2020 2:35 am

He just scored his first points:

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SupremeHustle · Post #217 » by **SupremeHustle** » Tue Nov 24, 2020 2:44 am

I wouldn't be shocked if Portis doesn't make it past the trade deadline with us.

Chad34 · Post #218 » by **Chad34** » Tue Nov 24, 2020 2:45 am

SupremeHustle wrote:I wouldn't be shocked if Portis doesn't make it past the trade deadline with us.

do we have to wait until then to trade him, or just cut him? I'd like to see an upgrade there

WRau1 · Post #219 » by **WRau1** » Tue Nov 24, 2020 2:51 am

There's a good chance that Giannis might kill him in practice. Or be best friends. Exciting.

tski1972 · Post #220 » by **tski1972** » Tue Nov 24, 2020 2:58 am

emunney wrote:Watched that dirty plays thing people were talking about. Dangerous habit of swinging at the ball when guys jump. There are 5 clips, first three are eh, 4th one is pretty bad, 5th one is really scary and ugly (Sato lands on his head). Kind of like the Grayson Allen tripping thing where there are some clips where it's clearly intentional and some where it'd be questionable by itself, but there are so many of them that they're all equally suspect. At any rate this is definitely a downside for me.

Watch on YouTube

the last play looked like he had a lot of ball and it seemed more like a momentum issue.

Hard to defend the others.