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It was humiliating watching the Bucks play Atlanta last night. Don't be fooled by that charge in the 4th quarter. It really meant nothing. This team does not play defense and doesn't seem to be coached to really know how to play defense as a unit. When they make a good defensive play, it's purely by accident.
I've watched Kuzma, Giannis, and several others turn into observers, just like Lillard has been. I guess the fight has gone out of them. It's really time to disband the entire roster and find a way to start over, and it's not by giving away the future like we've seen Horst do. They should become the "low-rent-district" team that people can trade huge contracts to along with draft picks, so they Bucks can build the pot in two or three years, to rise back to the top.
Sometimes, when you're rebuilding, you turn your resources into huge reserves of resources in draft capital to make it happen. When you get to the point that you can get a couple of lottery picks over a couple of years in a row, you could hit pay dirt by getting at the top of that list.
With huge draft capital, and then money available for free agents in a couple of years, they could really return to the top if they have the right GM and President pulling the strings and using the cap space creatively to ensure that they have totally rebuilt the core of the team and surrounded them with complementary talent.
Because of history, Milwaukee is not a great place for players to go as free agents. The culture in the building has to change to get where you want to go. That's not going to happen unless they do a total rebuild. It took several years to rebuild the team when Herb Kohl bought them. He created an environment where players liked playing for him, and in Milwaukee. He did his best to get quality coaches and front office personnel, and the players they brought in through the draft were what you'd expect at the time. Money wasn't there for teams like it is now, and the Bucks were one of those teams that operated every near on a negative balance sheet because they did not have the corporate sponsors hanging around to feed the cost monster.
Things are different now. The Bucks have a seriously good bottom line because the sharing plan in the NBA does work. Also, because of Kohl, they began getting that corporate sponsorship they so sorely needed.
That's why I felt so bad when Junior Bridgeman died. He was in for 10% on the team, and I'd bet a dollar to a donut his plan was to eventually get ownership into a group he would build that would do justice to the franchise. Junior never went halfway into anything, including his play on the floor for the Bucks.
Now it's going to take someone else with deep pockets that really loves the franchise to step up, and build a group, and buy the team, and make them a top team. I just hope I live long enough to see it. I've been a fan since that first game they ever played in Milwaukee. I was in the 4th row, behind the Bucks bench and I've been as loyal a fan as I could be, no matter where I lived. I've seen games in places like LA, Sacramento, The Bay Area of San Francisco, Chicago, Milwaukee, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Atlanta, and New Orleans. In some of those places beyond Milwaukee, more than once.
I've watched Kuzma, Giannis, and several others turn into observers, just like Lillard has been. I guess the fight has gone out of them. It's really time to disband the entire roster and find a way to start over, and it's not by giving away the future like we've seen Horst do. They should become the "low-rent-district" team that people can trade huge contracts to along with draft picks, so they Bucks can build the pot in two or three years, to rise back to the top.
Sometimes, when you're rebuilding, you turn your resources into huge reserves of resources in draft capital to make it happen. When you get to the point that you can get a couple of lottery picks over a couple of years in a row, you could hit pay dirt by getting at the top of that list.
With huge draft capital, and then money available for free agents in a couple of years, they could really return to the top if they have the right GM and President pulling the strings and using the cap space creatively to ensure that they have totally rebuilt the core of the team and surrounded them with complementary talent.
Because of history, Milwaukee is not a great place for players to go as free agents. The culture in the building has to change to get where you want to go. That's not going to happen unless they do a total rebuild. It took several years to rebuild the team when Herb Kohl bought them. He created an environment where players liked playing for him, and in Milwaukee. He did his best to get quality coaches and front office personnel, and the players they brought in through the draft were what you'd expect at the time. Money wasn't there for teams like it is now, and the Bucks were one of those teams that operated every near on a negative balance sheet because they did not have the corporate sponsors hanging around to feed the cost monster.
Things are different now. The Bucks have a seriously good bottom line because the sharing plan in the NBA does work. Also, because of Kohl, they began getting that corporate sponsorship they so sorely needed.
That's why I felt so bad when Junior Bridgeman died. He was in for 10% on the team, and I'd bet a dollar to a donut his plan was to eventually get ownership into a group he would build that would do justice to the franchise. Junior never went halfway into anything, including his play on the floor for the Bucks.
Now it's going to take someone else with deep pockets that really loves the franchise to step up, and build a group, and buy the team, and make them a top team. I just hope I live long enough to see it. I've been a fan since that first game they ever played in Milwaukee. I was in the 4th row, behind the Bucks bench and I've been as loyal a fan as I could be, no matter where I lived. I've seen games in places like LA, Sacramento, The Bay Area of San Francisco, Chicago, Milwaukee, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Atlanta, and New Orleans. In some of those places beyond Milwaukee, more than once.
