The Bucks Buzz is a bi-weekly SnoTap post featuring Charlie Tritschler and Mitch Pratt. Charlie writes the Monday post while Mitch handles Thursday. This could change, but they both bring a unique style to the post.
Quick Recap:
Monday at Detroit: The Bucks and their eight game losing streak traveled to Detroit to take on faux NBA star and former Buck Brandon Jennings and the Pistons. This game was, once again, over just about immediately. If there was one game I've actually wanted the Bucks to win this year, it was this one but nope.
The Pistons had seven guys in double figures (including all five starters) and is it any surprise that Jennings had one of his better games of the year against his former team? This is basically the thing that drove Milwaukee fans nuts watching BJ3 (BJ7 doesn't sound right). He can turn it on and play very well when he wants to. He can also become a distributor when he wants to and that's when he's most effective, in my opinion.
Detroit looked really good in my opinion. Jennings and C Andre Drummond have some good chemistry going with their lob game. That's about the extent of Drummond's range but who cares? Call me Sherlock but Josh Smith is still terrible at threes (0-4 Monday night) but continues to take a ton of them (five attempts from beyond the arc per game this season).
Also, there were a few Bucks that were facing their former Detroit squad in this one, Brandon Knight and Khris Middleton. Knight, once again, wasn't much of a factor as he continues to work his way back from an injured hammy. Middleton had 14 points and 5 boards in 21 minutes, another solid performance from Middleton who looks like he could be a great role player after we get our star in the 2014 draft, but I digress.
Appropriate YouTube video: Brandon Jennings scoring 55 points against Golden State in 2009.
I watched this game with some friends and we thought we had a star after this performance. Problem is, he never did anything special after this game in his four years in Milwaukee.
 |
| This is what the billboard could look like. |
Links
That "Save Our Bucks" website I linked out last week has now evolved into an IndieGoGo funding project to help raise money for a billboard to put somewhere in Milwaukee to alert Bucks management that the fans will have the organization's back if the team goes into a quick rebuild. The clock's ticking on this team faster than you think.
They are basically begging the team to not make any rash, short-sighted moves this year as they are well on their way to getting a high pick in the vaunted 2014 NBA Draft.
The Bucks are notorious around here for making dumb, short-sighted moves to get into the back end of the playoffs and get destroyed in the first round. I think the Tobias for JJ Redick trade was the last straw for a lot of fans. Milwaukee/Wisconsin sports fans are too smart and Herb Kohl is not fooling anyone with these moves.
Charlie sees this an "embarrassment" and while I guess you could make the argument that it is, the die hard Bucks fans are desperate to get this team a star in the only way possible for our small market "cold" city: the draft. Losing this season, especially after this dreadful 2-11 start, is what's best for the future of this team and we need to make sure it's in Milwaukee for good. We need to get back to relevance in order to have a chance at a new arena. THE 2014 NBA DRAFT is a great place to start. End tangent.
Appropriate YouTube video: Lloyd begging Harry to go to Aspen in 1994's Dumb and Dumber
This is comparable to what we are about to see with Bucks fans to Bucks' management. Hopefully, the end result is Bucks' management saying: "OK fans, tanking it is."
What to watch
Head coach Larry Drew said there would be changes after Saturday's embarrassing loss to the Charlotte Bobcats and he started Khris Middleton and Brandon Knight and everything else was the same. It'll be interesting to see if he plays the young guys even more after another embarrassing loss against Detroit on Monday.
What's next for the Bucks?
The Bucks will host Washington tonight at the BMO Harris Bradley Center and they'll have their new court ready to go finally. The Wizards will be without Bradley Beal for this one but John Wall has been playing very well the past handful of games. Over the weekend, the Bucks will play in Charlotte against those same Bobcats Friday night and then they'll host Boston on Saturday. Two pretty winnable games on paper but the Bucks have been terrible and we can't expect them to beat anyone at this point.
-Big Money
0 comments:
Post a Comment