Bucks 2024-25 Season Thread

[Heyjoe4]

Your Milwaukee Bucks are on a six game roll and are over .500 which puts them at #6 in the Eastern Conference.

Yeah they started 1-6 and have gone 9-3 since.

They do have talent. What they lack is young impact players.

 

[Voyageur]

Yeah they started 1-6 and have gone 9-3 since.

They do have talent. What they lack is young impact players.

They traded away their picks for guys who could no longer contribute. As an example, two #2 picks for Crowder, who just took up space, but they hung on for two years because Horst didn't want to look bad in making the trade, by cutting him. So many dumb moves, nearly as bad as the Bears sideline decisions in games.

 

[Heyjoe4]

They traded away their picks for guys who could no longer contribute. As an example, two #2 picks for Crowder, who just took up space, but they hung on for two years because Horst didn't want to look bad in making the trade, by cutting him. So many dumb moves, nearly as bad as the Bears sideline decisions in games.

Oh man I forgot they gave up two 2nd round picks for an aging and ineffective Crowder. (Is Crowder still playing, somewhere?)

Overall though you nailed it - they traded away draft capital for guys so they could "win now". That rarely works. Same is true in the NFL. Teams that get additional draft picks by trading aging and expensive veterans almost always do better - just look at the Lions. (Although that trade - Stafford for Goff and a bunch of picks worked out well for both teams as the Rams won a SB.)