Bulls were happy, Bucks were sad. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

The Bulls were very happy on Saturday night. They won by a lot and dominated all 48 minutes of the game against the Bucks. Also, the crowd was absolutely in Chicago’s favor. There were MVP chants for Derrick Rose throughout the night. There was a chant, an embarrassing one, for Brian Scalabrine as the game wound down.

Rose either assisted or scored each of the Bulls first 15 points. Luol Deng made a triumphant return to the lineup. The Bucks fouled the Bulls just eight times despite Chicago’s repeated trips into the lane to the hoop.

Everything was bad.

Momentum from that Miami win? Gone. Hopes right now? Low.

Jeremy Schmidt writes the Milwaukee Bucks blog Bucksketball.com. Follow him on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.

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Milwaukee Bucks

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Detroit Pistons

	Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, SF 24 MIN | 3-6 FG | 1-2 FT | 5 REB | 0 AST | 7 PTS | -15 Gery Woelfel reported that Moute still has knee problems. It’s hurting how he establishes leverage in the post. It also explains why he’s using poor technique with his arms to guard in the post. Moute is keeping his arms extended to push back against guys backing up. Moute knows he has to body up.
	Drew Gooden, PF 23 MIN | 1-8 FG | 2-2 FT | 4 REB | 2 AST | 4 PTS | -15 Bad Drew Gooden day. And Gooden was responsible for a lot more gaffs than his one turnover would indicate. He was late to pass, late to notice passes, fumbling everywhere and just generally flubbed up everything.
	Brandon Jennings, PG 42 MIN | 7-19 FG | 3-4 FT | 3 REB | 1 AST | 20 PTS | -10 Jennings followed up a blistering first half with a terrible second half. He was getting open three looks off screens, but he just wasn’t hitting them. What was inexcusable was his defense on Brandon Knight. Without Bogut, he can’t take a lot of the chances that he used to take. The Bucks have been playing faster and that’s been a boon for Jennings. Detroit slowed him down and Jennings couldn’t respond. The next big point guard step for Jennings is to enforce his style of play regardless of what the other wants.
	Jon Leuer, F 4 MIN | 1-2 FG | 0-0 FT | 1 REB | 1 AST | 2 PTS | -3 Still exists.
	Larry Sanders, C 20 MIN | 1-4 FG | 2-4 FT | 3 REB | 1 AST | 4 PTS | +7 Favorite sequence of the game: Larry Sanders running the fast break and passing to a streaking Tobias Harris for a rousing dunk. I’m telling you guys: POINT-CENTER.
	Tobias Harris, F 11 MIN | 2-6 FG | 4-4 FT | 5 REB | 0 AST | 8 PTS | +2 Dude can just score. Subtract his one three from his box score since it was just a half-hearted desperation three and you see a guy who drew fouls nearly every time he missed. He just knows how to score. The problem is that he doesn’t fit well into the “passing is magic” motif that the Bucks have adopted since Bogut went down.

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The Milwaukee Bucks have requested waivers on guard Darington Hobson (6-7, 210), General Manager John Hammond announced today.

Hobson, 24, was originally selected by the Bucks with the 37^th overall pick of the 2010 NBA Draft, but was waived prior to the start of the 2010-11 season. Hobson re-signed with Milwaukee as a free agent on Dec. 10, 2011, and appeared in five regular season games for the Bucks this season, tallying four points, three rebounds and six assists in 39 total minutes of action. Hobson also spent two separate stints with the Fort Wayne Mad Ants of the NBA D-League where he averaged 10.6 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.0 assists in eight games (six starts).

The Bucks roster now stands at 14 players.

What does this mean? Let’s let the next few days play out and see if it has any meaning at all before we jump to any conclusions.

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Love this picture. I had to modify this post just to include it. Brandon Jennings: No fear, just swag. (Photo by Gary Dineen/NBAE via Getty Images)

You’ll remember that Brandon Jennings spoke with Steve Nash over the summer.

“I asked him when he got that MVP two times, he said he just made plays down the stretch,” Jennings said in mid-Jaunary. “So, that’s something I really worked on this summer, not always shooting it, just making plays for everybody, trying to get the best possible shot.”

Everyone loves to hear that. The emphasis on teamwork sounds great. Teamwork is playing a big role in Milwaukee’s recent success too. The ball movement has been crisp. The players didn’t give up on themselves or each other when they were down 17 after the first quarter to the Heat. Scott Skiles had some nice things to say about the group’s chemistry after the game. Hooray for teamwork.

Teamwork wasn’t so much what had people on their feet last night though. That was just Brandon Jennings letting his natural abilities and attitudes shine through.

Jennings attitude and swag spread through the arena like smoke from a fire by the time the fourth quarter was over, but it actually started much earlier.

As he often is, Jennings looked frustrated when the Bucks were losing. He wasn’t shooting well, the Heat were doing their fast break thing and Lebron James and Dwyane Wade were taking turns making tough shots look simple.  Skiles said after the game that, given James’ mid-50s shooting percentage, there really is no such thing as a low percentage shot for him. The first quarter spoke to that, as James poured in 24 points while Jennings stewed.

With 1:52 left in the second quarter, Jennings hit a three. He was 2-10 from the field before that shot and 1-5 from three. Then he did something I’ve seen before.

He had that look on his face and made that motion with his hand that we’ve all made when we finally figured something out. It was kind of like he was a contestant on a game show and everyone else had moved on from the first step, but for whatever reason he couldn’t figure it out. Then  he figured it out and it was like he had to catch up, so going forward he knew he’d have to be better than his competitors.

Jennings did the same thing early in the second half of his 55-point game. I swear it was the same exact look.

From there, Jennings acted like he was just playing a game again. He started having fun and started letting the other team know he was doing so.

Jennings hit a three early in the third and almost before the ball had finished passing through the net, he stared at Mario Chalmers for just a moment before flashing the three-point monocle in his direction. I know we all grew up hearing about how important sportsmanship is and how no one likes a braggart, but does anyone really not love it when a guy on the team you’re cheering for is openly taunting the best team in the league and playing well enough to do it?

He wouldn’t stop there. Jennings banked in a floater a minute into the fourth quarter and gave Norris Cole a staredown. Maybe he was just insulted that Norris Cole has probably received more national attention than him this season. Maybe he was just excited that these weren’t just Knicks or Warriors point guards he felt like he could torch. Because he hadn’t even gotten to the torching yet. He hadn’t even begun his real fourth quarter show just yet.

Jennings would go on to hit three more threes in the fourth quarter, each one of them a hay-maker to the suddenly woozy Heat skull. He ended up 7-14 from behind the arc on the night. The Bucks play maker in the fourth quarter over and over again this season did it again.  He’s now averaging seven points and shooting 40% from three in fourth quarters this season. He certainly seems to have taken Nash’s words to heart.

And after his third three in the fourth, when the Heat called a time out to regroup, Jennings basked in the cheers from the Bucks crowd. He motioned for them to rise to their feet, but he had already put them there with his play.

After the game, Jennings talked about coming in early in the morning despite Coach Skiles canceling shootaround to get the team rest. He said it looked like it paid off in the fourth quarter. He talked about making plays for his teammates.  He talked about Luc Mbah a Moute’s insane defense on all three of the Heat stars. And he talked about the Bucks needing to get back to .500 on Friday. He had toned the swag back down and was all business once again.

It’s a delicate balance, like teamwork and a star knowing he should take over.

Teamwork is cool and finding the open man is just as important in the fourth quarter as it is in the first, maybe even more so. But when everyone who was at or watched the Bucks game at home last night talks about the game this morning there is a pretty specific order they’ll recollect in:

1. Did you see the Bucks last night?
2. Dude, Jennings went insane.
3. Those guys look good, they were moving the ball so well too.
4. But damn, Jennings was crazy.

Jeremy Schmidt writes the Milwaukee Bucks blog Bucksketball.com. Follow him on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.

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Miami Heat

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Milwaukee Bucks

	Carlos Delfino, SF 20 MIN | 3-6 FG | 2-2 FT | 1 REB | 2 AST | 11 PTS | +10 Delfino played just two minutes and didn’t catch the brunt of Lebron’s first quarter explosion. I can’t say I saw Stephen Jackson do anything particularly bad on Lebron, I think it was more one of those times when a great player got into a zone. With Lebron, it takes a team effort and a lot of luck. It helps when ‘Bron isn’t necessarily the focus too. After the first it didn’t really seem like he was. Delfino probably deserves some credit for that, as he was hounding him off the ball and on. Oh, and Delfino chipped in three threes and 11 points. For a guy tasked with spending most of the night guarding the league’s best player, that’s a pretty terrific offensive contribution.
	Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, SF 33 MIN | 6-7 FG | 1-4 FT | 8 REB | 0 AST | 13 PTS | +22 Starting on Bosh? Forcing Wade into step back threes after 24 seconds of dribbling? Blocking him on a drive into the paint? Spending the last part of the fourth quarter on Lebron after spending the majority of the game on Wade? All while tossing in 11 points and six rebounds? As if Mbah a Moute needed to do anything else to endear himself to Milwaukee fans as a defender and putbacks guy. This game was the prototype for all big defense little offense guys.
	Drew Gooden, PF 39 MIN | 7-12 FG | 3-4 FT | 9 REB | 5 AST | 17 PTS | +5 Scott Skiles had a smile on his face after the game when someone asked him about Drew Gooden’s strong outing. “I particularly like the Drew Gooden one man press break.” That’s so Drew Gooden. Apparently so is drawing fouls and so is battling and making some big plays late in games though too. All over the map.
	Brandon Jennings, PG 42 MIN | 9-25 FG | 6-8 FT | 4 REB | 8 AST | 31 PTS | +16 I’m not really the superstitious type. I know what I say isn’t actually going to impact the future. I know I can accept something and be confident if there’s enough data associated with it, it won’t stop being true. All that being said, I’m still nervous to just accept that Brandon Jennings is pretty good now. I don’t want to jinx it. He didn’t even shoot particularly well against the Heat in the fist half, but he was such a damn leader out there. And when the Bucks were working on a come back, he was doing his whole annoying (to the other team that is) swag thing. It’s so easy to look past that shooting line and at the times he poked the ball from Mario Chalmers or drew the offensive foul on D-Wade or stared down Norris Cole and just enjoy the heck out of this dude. Oh, and then he hit some huge shots too. Then he mugged it up. Then he took it a step further and blacked out for a while in the fourth. Or maybe that was me. Regardless. Everyone really enjoyed that.
	Mike Dunleavy, SF 26 MIN | 4-8 FG | 2-2 FT | 1 REB | 5 AST | 10 PTS | +5 He wasn’t quite as sharp a shooter as he was Monday, but Dunleavy played a big part in the Bucks all around strong offensive night. He made his share of shots, but maybe even more importantly, he moved the hell out of the ball. Monday he was a creative perimeter player, a quick decision maker and a good shooter. That’ll do.
	Ersan Ilyasova, PF 33 MIN | 4-14 FG | 1-2 FT | 14 REB | 3 AST | 9 PTS | +3 Athletically, Bosh is on another level that Ilyasova will never approach. In terms of effort, Ilyasova can battle with any player in the league though. It was another very typical Ilyasova kind of night. He led the Bucks in rebounding because he knows when he can keep battling and knows how to tip a ball to himself. His shot-selection was stellar as well.

Three Things We Saw

1. It would have been easy for the Bucks to check out after the Heat shot 80% and scored 40 points in the first quarter. I’ve seen Milwaukee do that to teams (no really, I swear I have) and pretty much put them away in the first. But the Bucks didn’t quit. There really wasn’t any reason to expect them to, I can’t remember the last time I saw them do that. It’s like the Bucks gatorade cooler is full of lemon lime laced with effort.
2. I’m sure you won’t feel bad for Jackson at this point, but it was almost like he was sacrificed in the first quarter. Lebron was unreal and Skiles brought Jax in as the first man off the bench when Delfino ran into foul trouble. Lebron proceeded to wear him out. Jackson would not return and Lebron wouldn’t stay quite so hot. I will not connect those dots so simply though.
3. Milwaukee struggled a bit late with the Heat press, but they found away to stay just composed enough to keep Miami at bay. Drew Gooden tried every insane thing he could to infuriate and drive fans up the walls at home and at the Bradley Center, but, as unorthodox as his methods are, he didn’t kill the Bucks late. I mean that as a compliment. The Bucks looked like a five-year-old who just realized his parents let go of his bike and didn’t tell him late when the Heat put some pressure on. But they held firm. Also, I have no idea what just happened. But I’m pretty sure that’s two wins over the Heat this season for Milwaukee. Wow.

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5-2. 2-1. 3-0. These three numbers represent the Bucks record with Shawn Livingston starting, since Andrew Bogut got injured (3-1 if you consider Bogut missed most of the win against Houston), and without Stephen Jackson, respectively. Yes there is a lot of optimism in Bucks camp right now and everyone is wondering if they can keep it up. Starting tonight, the Bucks face a 3 games in 4 nights stretch that includes Miami and Chicago. Let the test begin.

Recap

01/30/12 Bucks v. Pistons

Box Score

Analysis: JSOnline, Brewhoop, Behind the Buck Pass

Power Rankings

Marc Stein: 19
John Hollinger: 15
NBA.com: 18

Coverage

Gery Woelfel is reporting that Ersan Ilyasova has 5 teams overseas that want to buy out his contract. Ersan claims to have his focus (even though he’s talking to reporters about it), ”I don’t want to think about it because I don’t want it to affect my game. We’ll see what happens.” If Ilyasova can keep up his high level of play, he’ll set himself up for a good contract, whether it’s in the NBA or not.

Brandon Jennings as good as LeBron James?! Okay not really, but Behind the Bucks Pass has stats to prove that Jennings and LeBr0n are playing the most efficient basketball in the league.

Charles Gardner is calling Delfino’s recent star stopping defense devilish.

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Are you worried about Jackson's influence on Jennings?

“They know how I feel,” repeated Stephen Jackson over and over again after the game against the Pistons. On who “they” were, Jackson would not elaborate, but it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that he’s talking about John Hammond, Scott Skiles and the Bucks organization at large.

The Bucks are 3-0 without Jackson. Against New York, he was suspended for missing shootaround because he overslept. He was suspended for the Lakers game because he was verbally abusing refs while playing the Bulls. Skiles chose not to play him against the Pistons. According to Jackson, this was the first time that he’s never played in an NBA game he was available to play in.

Without Jackson, the passing looks crisper and the offense looks better. Possessions aren’t wasted on Jackson heat checks. Delfino is playing better perimeter defense. And the team is stocked with better scorers, shooters and distributors. “Scott is right. We are playing well without me in the lineup,” said Jackson. “The rotation is great and as long as we’re winning. There’s nothing for nobody to complain about.”

Jackson isn’t playing well, but he isn’t a locker room cancer. The other players generally adore him. He’s the first one off the bench to high-five everyone during time-outs. He’s around and not playing well, but he’s not undermining any efforts to win. “My situation is going to get better soon,” Jackson said, “Until then, I’m going to support these guys and continue to collect my check.”

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Detroit Pistons

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103

Milwaukee Bucks

	Carlos Delfino, SF 23 MIN | 4-7 FG | 0-0 FT | 5 REB | 3 AST | 10 PTS | +5 Carlos Delfino has quietly been the best perimeter defender the Bucks have. Good thing too since Moute needs to play heavy power forward minutes with Bogut out. He bodies up hard on his man. And against everyone except Kobe Bryant, he plays the passing lanes aggressively.
	Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, SF 28 MIN | 0-5 FG | 2-2 FT | 4 REB | 2 AST | 2 PTS | +4 Seriously, how versatile is Moute. Guards Kobe one game, the next he has to guard Greg Monroe. He used his long arms to deny Monroe the ball. And when Monroe was backing up, those same arms pestered Monroe’s dribble resulting in a few turnovers.
	Drew Gooden, PF 25 MIN | 7-9 FG | 2-3 FT | 5 REB | 1 AST | 16 PTS | +13 Didn’t think it was possible, but Drew Gooden pump fakes on defense. Will Bynum’s just scorching to the basket and Gooden’s all like, “I’m going to get in your way. . . no I’m not.” It’s a lot of fun to watch.
	Brandon Jennings, PG 38 MIN | 8-15 FG | 1-2 FT | 4 REB | 5 AST | 21 PTS | +21 The Pistons’ point guards had the audacity to step onto the same floor as Jennings. This infuriated him greatly. He scorched Bynum and Walker Russell Jr. around the corner, but was often met with a horde of Pistons big men. No matter. Jennings just torched the Pistons from three. And after each one, he defiantly strutted back on defense.
	Mike Dunleavy, SF 26 MIN | 8-10 FG | 2-2 FT | 3 REB | 3 AST | 20 PTS | +16 The Bucks ran a sweet pindown for Dunleavy in the fourth. It was a swish. And it put the Pistons away for good. But Dunleavy had no mercy and kept burying them. If they pindown that play a lot more often, some good things are in store for the future. It’s not a coincidence that since Dunleavy started replacing Jackson’s minutes that the ball movement and offense has been off the charts.
	Larry Sanders, C 12 MIN | 2-3 FG | 2-4 FT | 3 REB | 0 AST | 6 PTS | +14 Sanders did a very simple power move to the basket and converted a lay-up. No foul. No travel. No double dribble. I don’t know how to say this in any way that won’t sound condescending, but I was so proud of him. I wasn’t the only one in the Bradley Center that felt this way, he got a few cheers when he checked out in the middle of the fourth.

Two Things We Saw

1. Bucks won a battle they normally lose. Bucks took 26 free throws to the Pistons 20.
2. Big storyline from this game that supports some rumors: 12 players were used in this game. None of them were Stephen Jackson. And there’s no reason to actually play him. Delfino is a better defender. There are a lot of better shooters and distributors on the team. The offense just looks great when he doesn’t stop possessions with ill-advised threes and haphazard drives to the basket. And this is coming from the guy who was so excited Jax was joining the team that he compared him to a samurai.

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Los Angeles Lakers

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Final Recap | Box Score

100

Milwaukee Bucks

	Drew Gooden, PF 36 MIN | 9-15 FG | 4-4 FT | 8 REB | 1 AST | 23 PTS | +5 Drew Gooden will get by a guy like Pau Gasol for a layup and get a technical foul two seconds later. Drew Gooden will finish a wide open fast break layup and fall down for no conceivable reason. Drew Gooden will do his damnedest to defend Andrew Bynum and throw a pass through traffic into Derrick Fisher’s body. None of these things, not the good ones, not the bad ones, should be surprising. Gooden was all Milwaukee really could counter the Lakers front line with, and he did his best. He’s typically a pretty uneven player, but Saturday night, he was better than that. He made a higher percentage of his shots and performed as well as you could expect against the Lakers tough front line. He often has the best numbers of any of Milwaukee’s starters, but Saturday night, he actually played the best too.
	Shaun Livingston, PG 31 MIN | 4-9 FG | 3-3 FT | 2 REB | 1 AST | 11 PTS | 0 Elbow jumpers. I wonder how many Livingston has made in his life. It’s a pretty effortless shot for him, especially when he’s able to take it coming out of a post up. He displayed an uncommon blend of leaping ability and power with a dunk on a scrambling Andrew Goudelock. I’m sure Bucks fans are getting more comfortable with the idea of him as the starting shooting guard each game.
	Brandon Jennings, PG 32 MIN | 6-14 FG | 0-0 FT | 3 REB | 7 AST | 12 PTS | -3 Before the game, I was thinking if the Bucks were going to be competitive, it would be because Jennings has 30 points and eight assists or something like that. Jennings had 10 points and five assists coming into the fourth quarter and the Bucks led by seven. Huh? Your guess is as good as mine. Saturday night’s was an okay game from Jennings – he handled the ball well, had only one turnover and pressured Laker point guards well, but only scored 12 points. And the Bucks still won and even shot 50% from the field. Weird.
	Mike Dunleavy, SF 22 MIN | 6-8 FG | 1-1 FT | 3 REB | 0 AST | 15 PTS | +21 He was like the perimeter version of Ilyasova. He hit two threes, helped facilitate ball movement, grabbed some boards and shot a good percentage. If Milwaukee’s reserves can make shots at a rate better than 50%, that would go a long way towards moving them forward without Bogut. Obviously they won’t every game, but on a night when the starters were solid, but not great, it was a big pickup.
	Ersan Ilyasova, PF 25 MIN | 7-9 FG | 0-0 FT | 4 REB | 0 AST | 15 PTS | +14 While using most of his energy guarding the Lakers tough front line, he wasn’t the rebounding force he’s often been this season. But he helped the Bucks shoot better than 50% with his efficient night. Hit a three, grabbed enough boards in the fourth quarter to keep the Lakers from coming back – a game you’ll certainly take from Ilyasova.

Three Things We Saw

1. Defending Kobe was primarily a dual effort. Delfino spent a lot of time on him throughout the game, as did Luc Mbah a Moute. Poor Mbah a Moute got the duty in the fourth quarter, when Kobe decided to get serious. He was up to the challenge though, forcing Kobe into some tough shots. The Mamba made 10 of 21 shots and almost had a triple double, but he led the Lakers in turnovers and did not put another game winner on the Bucks heads. Success.
2. Did the Bucks just make more free throws than their opponent? That’s an anomaly for this group, but they love it every time it happens. With the Lakers huge front line and Kobe Bryant in the back court, this certainly didn’t seem like the game Milwaukee would win the free throw battle in, but here we are. It certainly helps explain how we ended up with such a surprising final score.
3. Milwaukee is one of the league’s best teams at forcing turnovers and they were at it again against the Lakers. 15 Laker turnovers led to 23 Milwaukee points. That’s defense leading to offense and that, is exactly what Scott Skiles wants to see.

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Przybilla as a Buck. It could happen again soon.

From Alex Kennedy of Hoopsworld:

Stephen Jackson has been suspended one game for verbal abuse of an official and failure to leave the court. Incident occurred against CHI.

And things remain turbulent.

This is the second game this season Jackson will miss for disciplinary reasons. He missed the team bus to shootaround in New York and Coach Scott Skiles opted not to play him.

Jackson has apologized on Twitter.

To all my fans apologize for my actions. Its just somethings refs shouldnt say. Gotta keep my kool. Lesson learned.

In other news, I’ve obtained what I feel like is reliable information that John Hammond met with Joel Przybilla and his agent in Milwaukee on Saturday and could be close to working out some a deal. I’m now rooting for this scenario, solely so I don’t look like an idiot for reporting it.

That’s where this season currently sits for me.

Ultimately, Przybilla isn’t making or breaking the Bucks if he joins the team. He would be another big body and he would give the team a true center. But he’d be giving them one that hasn’t played in about eight months and seems fairly content to be retired.

Jeremy Schmidt writes the Milwaukee Bucks blog Bucksketball.com. Follow him on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.

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