Post#726 » by GimmeDat » Thu Mar 17, 2016 1:55 am
The last few months I've really cooled on Portis, not really liking his prospects. Most of his points were the result of jumpers, and his jumper has really cooled off.
He's always been a bit shot happy and taken shots out of the rhythm of the offense, but when he was hot, we could give him a pass. Now that he's not hitting them at a good rate, his poor shot selection is really starting to show. Combine that with a mediocre post game and the lack of size/athleticism to be a real force under the ring, and he's really starting to look like a bad offensive player. He's shooting 43% on the season now, horrible for a big.
He's continuing to do well on the boards, but often times his 2nd and 3rd efforts aren't enough to counter for his lack of lift. And defensively, he's one of the worst on the team, got a lot of growth to go there.
In the same way he started out hot, it's not fair to judge him on a cold streak either, but even when he was playing well I was a bit skeptical about how he was doing it. He'll have a solid career in this league, but I can't see him panning out as a starting level player at this stage. For all the talk about how he was a sleeper in the draft, I think all things considered, he was probably picked where he deserved to be picked.
