For the few Milwaukee Bucks fans remaining, this article sums up what Scott Skiles thinks of the season. This was a disappointing season, particularly the finish. The Bucks have not finished well in most of the past few seasons. This year, injuries to Andrew Bogut and Michael Redd likely doomed the Bucks, but you hate to see a team falter down the stretch like the Bucks did. I am not ready to blame Skiles for this yet. If it happens again next season, then you can question him. But for now, an 8-game improvement over last season is not bad. But, the Bucks are back in the lottery...again.
The Bucks seriously need to start posting winning records, and soon. The Bucks are not near the top of mind for most people in Wisconsin. If they ever want to be #2 (Packers are always #1) or even #3 or #4, they need to play winning basketball. The Bradley Center is not getting any younger.
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Who are these Bucks that you speak of?
They are a basketball team that plays in the same league as the Minnesota Timberw...oh wait, you may not have heard of them either. I had to look them up on Wikipedia.
OK, I'll put it this way...there are additional teams in the NBA besides the Cleveland Cavaliers, Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, etc. Look it up.
Got it. You mean the Washington Generals.
Actually, it's a spot-on post, Mike. The Buckos were probably the second most popular team in Wisconsin for a good 20 years, but it's now been 20 years since those days. The tough thing is that, on both occasions when they had the #1 pick, there really wasn't a franchise-type talent available. Yes, Grant Hill and Jason Kidd turned out to be better players than Glenn Robinson, and Chris Paul has certainly turned out to be better than Andrew Bogut, but I'm not convinced that any of those guys would have moved the needle for the Bucks the way LeBron James did for Cleveland.
One of the problems the Bucks have had were terrible drafts...or more to the point, bad draft-day trades. This is something that John Hammond has to stop. To this day it burns me that Dirk Nowitzki could have been a Buck. But instead they traded him for Robert Traylor. Yeesh!
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