Bobby Portis on adapting to FIBA rules: 'Hard is for single mom with 4 kids' / News - Basketnews.com

Portis said that adjusting to a different ruleset is easy compared to what regular people have to deal with daily.

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Team USA features 12 players that have zero FIBA senior basketball experience. Adjusting to different rules compared to those in the NBA is usually difficult. Not for Bobby Portis, though.

Bobby Portis

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Two days before a friendly game against Slovenia on Saturday, Portis was asked how tough it is to adjust to a different ruleset in international basketball. He gave a wholesome answer.

"Hard is not for me, man. Hard is for the single mom with four kids. This is what I do," he toldTim Reynolds from The Associated Press. "Single mom, struggling to provide for her kids, that's hard."

In the first game against Puerto Rico on Sunday, August 6th, Portis scored 11 points and grabbed 3 rebounds in 10 minutes of play.

Team USA will play two exhibition games in Malaga, Spain - first, against Slovenia on August 12th, and then against Spain on August 13th. The squad will then travel to Abu Dhabi, UAE, to play against Greece (August 18th) and Germany (August 20th).

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