The NBA Draft Lottery was created to dissuade tanking. Whether or not the lottery has succeeded, is up to your own judgment (Quick answer: no). Milwaukee did their best to tank their way to the top of the Greg Oden/Kevin Durant lottery, but the basketball Gods did not reward the regular efforts of Damir Markota [...]
Recently, the TrueHoop Network’s D-League blog D-League Digest polled the network to see what respective blogs thought about their team’s usage of the D-League as a development tool. As far as the Bucks are concerned, I gave them a D. Here’s a sample of my thoughts on the matter: It’s tough to criticize the Bucks [...]
I’m constantly reading, hearing, seeing and being told how the Bucks may make a mistake and draft “another Joe Alexander” in Gordon Hayward. But I don’t get it. If it means drafting a player who won’t work out, that makes some sense, but Milwaukee will run that risk with anyone they draft. Of course, I [...]
Without ever having been in one, it’s difficult for me to know just how NBA teams’ war room’s operate. I do have my ideas though. I imagine piles of data everywhere, organized by player, with a dry erase board full of player’s names (probably on magnets) and ranked by position, overall and where they will [...]
The Bucks have made a trade. Details have not been finalized and the two players the Bucks give up could end up being HakimWarrick and Joe Alexander, but here was the initial report. From ESPN TrueHoop: The Chicago Bulls and Milwaukee Bucks were nearing completion of the John Salmons trade Thursday morning. However, although the [...]
The weeks and days leading up to the trade deadline involve so many rumors that it’s hard to keep track of what’s reality and what’s fiction. That’s where I come in. I’ve constructed a handy guide of the Bucks players most likely to be on the move. I’ll fill you in on where they could [...]
The time has come for Joe Alexander. He’ll likely finally be getting his chance to earn some real playing time and be a featured option in the offense. The only problem? It’ll be for the Fort Wayne Mad Ants of the NBA’s D-League. From the Milwaukee Bucks The Milwaukee Bucks have assigned second-year forward Joe [...]
It’s hard to even be concerned about a loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on the road. That talent disparity is too great and the road troubles too significant for the current version of the Milwaukee Bucks. But it isn’t hard to be concerned about another knee injury to Michael Redd. Either on his jump [...]
It feels like I’m watching the same movie over and over. I know what’s going to happen, I know who the good and bad guys are, the sub-plot never changes and the setting is always cold. Only it’s more frustrating than a typical film, because before I ever started watching this gloomy presentation I knew [...]
2012 Player Capsules: Brandon Jennings
I’m not sure we’ll ever know what happened with Brandon Jennings in early February last season. Milwaukee’s premiere guard was cruising along through the first third of the lockout shortened 2011-12 season. Despite a road heavy early season schedule, Jennings was producing at a level far better than he had in his first two seasons. [...]
2012 Player Capsules: Monta Ellis
There was a trade in the NBA this weekend. You may have heard. The Oklahoma City Thunder made an expectation defying deal that will undoubtedly either end up a brilliant reminder of how smart you have to be to succeed in a small market or a sobering lesson on why small market teams can’t thrive in today’s [...]
2012 Player Capsules: Samuel Dalembert
“I want the team to be one of the top defensive teams. I’ve been to so many training camps and seen coaches focusing on offense, offense, offense. We came here and I’m like, ‘Wow.’ I wanted to hug coach (Scott Skiles). For the first time in seven years, the Milwaukee Bucks starting center isn’t Andrew [...]
2012 Player Capsules: John Henson
From every indication, John Henson is ready to play defense in the NBA. For his sake, I hope that’s true. Because his capability to play defense this year could have quite an impact on his career. Henson is probably going to land on his feet no matter what. He was a very highly regarded high [...]
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