Bobby Portis AKA Crazy Eyes Portis AKA Bobby Bitches has been the object of some consternation among Bulls fans. He never seems to perform well as a starter, the very times when his team needs him to step up, but he’s also inconsistent off the bench. It’s hard to blame all the Bulls’ problems on a second-year bench power forward who wasn’t even coming off the bench for stretches of the season, but he’s an easy target thanks to his obvious deficiencies (deficiencies which any young player will have), and if you’re an easy target in the NBA, there’s a subset of fans who will hate you and want you off their team forever.
I see some Ersan Ilyasova in Crazy Eyes Portis, in that they both prefer shooting jumpers over getting bodied inside by more muscular players. Ilyasova always had the three-point stroke while Portis is just developing his, but otherwise I think it’s a pretty good comparsion. And you know what the best part of it is? Ilyasova is white, and Portis is black, yet I was able to overcome their difference in skin color to draw a comparison between them. I could have grabbed the low-hanging fruit and compared Portis to somebody like Al Harrington, but instead I challenged (and overthrew) social norms by making an interracial comparison.
Time for a Hot Pocket.