Milwaukee Bucks

Every Monday, with the assistance of the good people over at www.basketball-reference.com, I like to take a look deep into the statistics of teams and players from around the league in a little post I like to call “Fun with Box Scores”.

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In the NBA these days, it seems like there is a stat for everything. We’ve got PER, offensive efficiency ratings, defensive efficiency rating, and so on and so on.

It seems like every team in the league now employs their own stat guru. And while I’m not one to question the use of all these new statistics to evaluate NBA players (I actually kinda like them), I’m old school. 

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So, things aren't looking good for the NBA right now.  There are a lot of reasons, the economy, it struggles compared to the other sports anyway, superstar bailout calls, the "thug" image, and mainly the fact the refs don't really know how to call the game.  I have a hard time watching somebody get 4 steps through the lane and a 4 second later continuation call; sorry, but that's not basketball.  Toss in the fact that these refs that don't apparently enforce the rules are going to go on strike and they also gamble on basketball.. things aren't looking good.  Teams are desperate to pack the stands.

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The 2009-2010 Milwaukee Bucks roster is not yet set, but that doesn't mean we don't know where they are heading.  We do know where they are heading though, and that is straight down.  They are dumpster diving for young "talent" to try to turn themselves into a young, exciting squad.  Unfortunately, the young pieces that they have are either:  raw or simply not talented enough to make an impact, and this is going to be a long season in Milwaukee. 

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There are a lot of interesting things going on in Milwaukee this offseason. It was pretty clear from watching their games last year this team had the talent to be in the playoffs coming out of the East but had little to no respect for Larry Krystkowiak...which was understandable. Bucks went cheap w/the coaching hire, players didn't respect it and the team had no leaders. Getting Richard Jefferson and drafting two other SF's still doesn't give them any leaders but Scott Skiles will make you play for him, and with the success he's already had perhaps Mo Williams will actually work this season after getting that big deal to stay there. Williams was perhaps the main reason that team underachieved. He put up good numbers but that's all they were. He played ZERO defense, was a bad teammate and a worse employee a season ago.

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