As of today (Sunday) the Milwaukee Bucks have ten players averaging over 20 minutes per game, nine Bucks have not played in a game due to a coach’s decision, ten different players have started a game this season and just two players have started in every game they’ve played.

It’s been season long rotation roulette for the Bucks.

Is that merely the product of having numerous players with an equal number of talent and flaws or has coach Scott Skiles been tampering too much with a rotation that merely needs consistency to produce consistent results?  I got the chance to ask coach Skiles about this before the game on Saturday.

“When you’re searching like a lot of teams are and we are a little bit still with finding consistency sometimes a guy gets left out.”

So is the depth a good problem to have?

“Well it would be if we were 24-17 and not 17-24.  We do have any number of guys that can play different positions and are obviously NBA players and all that, but all of our guys need to become more consistent and play better.”

The question that arises then is would more minutes lead to more consistent production for certain players, or do they need to earn the minutes with steady production.  The case of Carlos Delfino is an interesting one to look at.

"I WANT MORE MINUTES IN THE NBA!"

Lately, Delfino has had as fine a stretch of basketball as he’s had in his entire NBA career.  Over his last six games, Delfino is averaging 17.7 points and eight rebounds while shooting 41.8 percent from behind the arc and 52 percent total shooting.  In a related matter, Delfino is averaging 36 minutes per game during that same stretch.  It’s easy to come to the conclusion that Delfino’s increased minutes have made him more comfortable on the court and resulted in the production boom.  But it’s not necessarily fact. Read more…