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Then and Now: Are the Bucks Improving?

February 3rd, 2010 Jeremy Schmidt 13 comments

One year ago today, February 3rd, 2009 the Milwaukee Bucks sat 24-28. They were just outside of the playoff picture, but had dreams of making a run behind Charlie Villanueva and Richard Jefferson. Today? They are both gone, but the Bucks season outlook isn’t all that much different. At 21-26, the Bucks are ninth in the East with playoff aspirations. So that brings me to our first Bucksketball.com Big Question:

Does the Bucks future look brighter today than it did a year ago on the same date?

For your convenience, I’ve made some tables to get a closer look at the roster as it was constructed then and how it’s constructed now. Note that the contract status of each player is as how it relates to after this season. Also, Villanueva and Ramon Sessions numbers relate to what they were paid as free agents this past off-season.

PlayerAge (2010)2009 PER2010 PERContract
Luc Richard Mbah a Moute2312.39.41 year: $854,389
Charlie Villanueva2518.615.94 years: $31.2 million
Ramon Sessions2317.612.73 years: $12,773,919
Richard Jefferson2915.412.81 year: $15 million
Michael Redd3017.912.21 year: $18.3 million
Luke Ridnour2812.918.40
Charlie Bell309.88.62 years: $7,936,000
Andrew Bogut2516.219.94 years: $50.5 million
Dan Gadzuric3112.210.51 year: $7,243,750
Francisco Elson3310.35.40
Joe Alexander2310.1N/A0
PlayerAge (2010)2009 PER2010 PERContract
Brandon Jennings20N/A15.64 years: $12,334,802
Andrew Bogut2516.219.94 years: $50.5 million
Michael Redd3017.912.21 year: $18.3 million
Charlie Bell309.88.62 years: $7,936,000
Luc Richard Mbah a Moute2312.39.41 year: $854,389
Ersan Ilyasova22N/A15.42 years: $4,861,500
Hakim Warrick2716.9160
Carlos Delfino2713.6 (2008)12.71 year: $3.5 million ($500,000 buyout)
Luke Ridnour2812.918.40
Kurt Thomas37148.90
Jerry Stackhouse3513.3 (2008)10.80
Dan Gadzuric3112.210.51 year: $7,243,750
Jodie Meeks22N/A9.12 years: $1,646,488

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No Signature Yet: Magic 99 – Bucks 82

February 3rd, 2010 Jeremy Schmidt Comments off
Warrick found little room to operate Tuesday night

(Photo by Fernando Medina/NBAE via Getty Images) Warrick found little room to operate Tuesday night

One thing was very clear by the end of Tuesday night’s Bucks game in Orlando: Orlando is very good, much better than Milwaukee.  Breaking news, I know, but I just wanted to get that out there so we were all on the same page, just in case by some chance we weren’t.  The Magic are a NBA Finals contender and the Bucks are finally scraping back towards respectability, unfortunately that’s just the reality of the situation.  So it’s hard to be too heartbroken about a blowout loss in The Magic Kingdom.  The Bucks had been playing some of their best basketball of the season before Tuesday’s game, but it was apparently too much to ask for that to continue on through the evening.  The question going forward will be whether or not Tuesday had more to do with playing against Orlando or whether the not-so-long-ago inconsistent Bucks have once again reared their ugly head.

Offense

Non-existent once again, the Bucks shot just 36.3 percent.  When Jodie Meeks is getting playing time at this point, it’s generally a bad sign.  It seems to mean no answers are apparent or the Bucks are looking tired and ragged.  Both of those schools of thought applied to a Bucks team in the second game of a road back-to-back. Read more…

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