1. Corey Maggette has been wildly inconsistent and brings it some nights while taking it easy other nights. From what I gather http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/112597169.html, Maggette doesn’t like it here and isn’t a fan of what is going on, he is also coming off an injury.

2. Keyon shouldn’t be playing at all. CDR is likely leaving in the summer anyway, as he is a free agent. Not only that, but Carlos and Salmons were playing excellently for a little over three quarters.

3. I agree, Earl Barron is decent and probably should be playing over Brockman, at least last night he should have when the Bucks were once again desperate for scoring.

4. D-Rose would have destroyed Earl Boykins. They would have isolated every single play. And sure, you could have put Boykins on Bogans, but then the Bulls put in Kyle Korver and go to him every play.

5. Michael Redd is very likely gone after this season as the Bucks have moved on already. No reason to play a guy who is not in your future. As I said above, this just wasn’t the game to insert Gooden back into the lineup, especially against Carlos Boozer. I wouldn’t want to destroy his confidence.

Bottom Line: This is the worst draft in eleven years. Even if we move up two slots or so, we likely won’t get anyone who can help the team. Even the guys who are the first three picks are not superstars, like John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins this year or Blake Griffin in the ’09 draft.

1) Why isn’t Maggette playing? Is this his future? Two years left at $20 million plus to ride the pine? Or is the plan to trade him after damaging the value he established last year?

2) CDR? Again, the only young player they have at guard other than their on-again, off-again point guard, and he can’t break into the line-up because of the imperative to play Keyon Dooling at shooting guard. Dooling’s a lifelong journeyman who’s played much better at point this season, to my mind.

3) Why is John Brockman playing on a regular basis? If I had my druthers, he would have been cut in favor of Earl Barron, a guy who can shoot the basketball, which is a rarity on this team.

4) Speaking of Earls, the only player on the team who can push the ball up the court on a regular basis sat once again, apparently as part of the Bucks’ attempt at proving that defense wins basketball games. (Note to readers: watch some film from the 1970s, when offense ruled. Note to the league: Chuck Daly’s been suckering you guys for decades.)

5) Ilyasova’s apparently done for the season, as are Gooden and Redd, appearances to the contrary. And why not? Why play the half-dozen players on the bench, who combined (not including Redd) have averaged about 50 points a game this season?

Bottom line: Forget the playoffs, Milwaukee!!! Get a higher draft pick. And don’t blame injuries for the disappointment that the 2010-2011 season has become. This team today is worse than it was when Coach Skiles first started here, even though the talent level is arguably superior.

The biggest problem? This has got to be one of the worst shooting teams in franchise history. That everybody is shooting so relatively poorly suggests schematic problems to me. Simply put: this team should not be as bad offensively as the Murdock, Day, Mobley, Norman, Mayberry team was. It should not.