Milwaukee Bucks

Matchup: Pistons 2-0; Milwaukee 0-2 (entering Friday). Tip-off: 8:30, Bradley Center, Milwaukee. Radio: WDFN-AM (1130).

Detroit hosts the Milwaukee Bucks at the Palace tonight. The Pistons hope for their second win in preseason play.

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The Dallas Mavericks got younger and more athletic Friday when they traded injured veteran Eddie Jones to the Indiana Pacers for third-year swingman Shawne Williams. Nelson was on his way to La Crosse, Wis., for tonight’s preseason game against the Bucks.

Boston Celtics defeat Milwaukee Bucks, 117-97; other NBA results noted; photo

Rookie Kevin Love scored 16 points and Mike Miller added 12, lifting the Timberwolves to a 117-79 preseason victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday night that made Minnesota's draft day trade look promising.

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Bucks rookie Joe Alexander missed Wednesday's preseason game at Detroit with an abdomen strain. He is considered day to day.

Bucks G Tyronn Lue made his preseason debut in Wednesday's preseason game at Detroit. He missed the opener with a groin injury. Lue played 14 minutes and scored six points with two assists.

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By noreply@blogger.com (TCW) Driving around this morning, I heard a soundbite from Bucks coach Scott Skiles following the team's absolute thrashing by the much improved Minnesota Timberwolves in their preseason debut, 117-78. The coach was commenting on the Bucks game high scorer Charlie Villanueva when he said,...

By J.E. Skeets Tom Enlund, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: "The Milwaukee Bucks opened their exhibition season by getting pounded, 117-79, by the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday night at the Bradley Center in Scott Skiles' debut as coach. Skiles doesn't plan on overplaying any of his players in the ex...

By noreply@blogger.com (TCW) In fact, I came up with the concept of individual Defensive Win Score only after I made the comment that the Bucks ought to build around Mo Williams because he had a high Win Score and Pressey25 ripped me and said thats stupid, you can't build around a guy who plays no defense, and I thought abo...

By Basketbawful When last we saw them: Finished 45-37, second in the Central Division and fourth overall in the East. They pushed the eventual NBA champion Boston Celtics to seven games and were one Paul Pierce scoring explosion from advancing to the Conference Finals.

 WI - By TOM ENLUND Much water has passed under the bridge during guard Michael Redd’s career with the Milwaukee Bucks. “Five coaches and 300 players,” said Redd, ...

 CA - But in the past few years the Milwaukee have struggled to get it together. Prove me wrong, Bucks. I'd love to see them realize their potential, ...

By james Michael Curry, Detroit Pistons Larry Brown, former Detroit Pistons coach Terry Porter, former Detroit Pistons assistant coach Scott will work for GM John Hammond and he worked under Joe Dumars of the Detroit Pistons. Terry Porter, Phoenix Suns

By noreply@blogger.com (TCW) 3. Ramon Sessions. Skiles, in the Dennis Krause interview I saw, never mentioned point guard Ramon Sessions' name. But he kept talking about veteran point guard Luke Ridnour, and how great Ridnour was because he was a "pass first" PG (editorial comment: never mind the damage Ridnour's lack...

Tressel commented yesterday that during his seven previous seasons as head coach at Ohio State, the Buckeyes have won the Big Ten championship in the years they have defeated the Badgers (2002, 2007) and not won the league crown in the years they have lost to Wisconsin (2001, 2003, 2004). T...

By dberri So what does this tell us about players like O.J. Mayo, Eric Gordon, or Joe Alexander?  Each of these players was well below average last season.  And each was chosen in the lottery.    Does this mean that the Grizzlies (who now have Mayo), the LA Clippers (who drafted Gordon), and the Bucks (wh...

By TCW(noreply@blogger.com) The town of Milwaukee is now polluted with these insufferable bastards, just as the entire state of Wisconsin was polluted with them (except they were supposedly Packer fans) ten odd years ago. Ohhhh, they jumped off the Packer band wagon as soon as they stopped winning ("You mean, the Pac...

By noreply@blogger.com (TCW) But I am contending that he is the PERFECT coach for this team at this time. As a Bucks fan, I've watched the slow, painful castration of three different Milwaukee Bucks coaches by five different Milwaukee Bucks teams. I can't see the same happening to Skiles. He has this "take charge" attitud...

By dberri From 1980 to 1988 the Boston Celtics and LA Lakers won every title except one.  The lone exception was the Philadelphia 76ers of 1983. In 1980 and 1982 the Sixers lost to the Lakers in the NBA Finals.  In 1981 the team was eliminated by the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals.  Despite this h...

By noreply@blogger.com (TCW) Last night I analyzed the performances of five key Milwaukee Bucks players in games played against the NBA's Eastern and Western Conference semifinalists: Boston, Detroit, Orlando, Cleveland, New Orleans, San Antonio, Utah, and the Los Angeles Lakers. I wanted to see how the players (...

By noreply@blogger.com (TCW) What's more, by my reckoning Landry's win productivity was, per minute, comparable to the very elite players in the NBA (his personal win-loss record of 99-(-17), and his Wins Produced per 48 of +0.236 puts him in the top 10 best Win Producers per minute in the entire Association.)

By noreply@blogger.com (TCW) With a projected starting line-up of Richard Jefferson, Michael Redd, Ramon Sessions, Charlie Villanueva, and Andrew Bogut, the 2008-09 Milwaukee Bucks should not lack for reliable scoring (Jefferson should be especially helpful in that regard). And I am counting on new head coach Sc...

By noreply@blogger.com (TCW) According to the chart, and anyone who watched any of the action from last season, the ugly story of the '07-'08 Milwaukee Bucks can be easily summarized. Milwaukee's headline players were mediocre, and their supporting cast was downright awful.

By dberri Milwaukee Makes Changes Charlie Villanueva: 0.082 WP48, 4.0 Wins Produced Charlie Villanueva: 0.051 WP48, 1.0 Wins Produced Charlie Villanueva: 0.014 WP48, 0.5 Wins Produced Richard Jefferson: 0.040 WP48, 2.6 Wins Produced Table Two: The Career of Richard Jefferson

By noreply@blogger.com (TCW) For the life of me I can not detect any logical pattern connecting the curious offseason personnel moves made by new Milwaukee Bucks general manager John Hammond except this... he likes to collect players with little or declining productive value... and he hates physical power forwards. Hates...

By dberri With a starting lineup that should look like Ridnour (PG), Redd (SG), (Richard) Jefferson (SF), Charlie Villanueva (PF) and Andrew Bogut (C), the Bucks will have an infinitely better roster. And now that the team has a coach who can actually lead on this level, the future is vastly improve...

Oklahoma City gets Mason from Milwaukee and former No. 1 pick Joe Smith from Cleveland. Bucks general manager John Hammond said he can envision Ridnour thriving in Milwaukee. Oklahoma City general manager Sam Presti sees the basketball benefits.

By noreply@blogger.com (FLCeltsFan) The Celtics have no players in the Olympics but there are plenty of other NBA teams with players competing. Here is a list of the players who are competing for teams other than the US team. Argentina has 5 including Manu Ginobili (San Antonio Spurs), Andres Nocioni (Chicago Bulls), Fabricio Oberto (San Antonio Spurs), Luis Scola (Houston Rockets) and Carlos Delfino (Toronto Raptors). Australia has Andrew Bogut (Milwaukee Bucks). China has Yao Ming (Houston Rockets) and Yi Jianlian (New Jersey Nets). Croatia has Roko-Leni Ukic (Toronto Raptors). Germany has Chris Kaman (Los Angeles Clippers) and Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks). Lithuania includes Linas Kleiza (Denver Nuggets) and Sarunas Jasikevicius (Golden State Warriors). Russ...   [read the full post]

By noreply@blogger.com (FLCeltsFan) Celtics 17 Sifting over the FA forward bone pile The underrated Paul Pierce FL's Take: With all the European players in the NBA, I see no problem with them being World Champions. Bucks Diary Win profile for the 2007-08 Boston Celtics Sports of Boston Celtics player review: Leon Powe USA Today The Tim Donaghy we all know Hoopsworld Ranking the Eastern Conference Spurs Report Gary Payton to make it official Sporting News How many sobriety tests must Paul Pierce pass? Bleacher Report Kevin Garnett is a better player than Paul Pierce Top 5 NBA players that may never win a title Lex Nihil Novi Best 5 year records in NBA history   [read the full post]

By noreply@blogger.com (TCW) The one encouraging thing I heard from Hammond was his insinuation that the point guard minutes will be distributed by merit rather than salary. That means the rising young quarterback Ramon Sessions ought to get a fair shot to unseat the defenseless Mo Williams.

By noreply@blogger.com (TCW) What makes the basketball analytical writing sphere so great, too, is that it is a conversation, not a competition. This isn't the race to split the atom. We are all having fun trying to develop better ways to analyze and understand this great game of basketball -- the people's sport.

By noreply@blogger.com (TCW) So, while I like the emphasis on defense, both Lue and Allen must upgrade their offensive production over last season if they are to make significant contributions to the success of the 2008-09 Milwaukee Bucks. And I do expect them to be successful.

The Boston Celtics visit tomorrow and the Bulls are hopeful to build upon Saturdays win against the Milwaukee Bucks. The Bulls haven’t won a game against the Boston Celtics this season and the last two have been blowouts. The first game the two teams played on December 8 was the only game that...

By FLCeltsFan I'm guranteeing a Bucks win. The Bucks will win 42 minutes of the game and then Max will go 1-7 with 3 TOs and the Bucks will lose by 8 Does Ray Allen intentionally hurt himself before he plays Milwaukee? Trading Ray Allen away was one of the worst moves in The Milwaukee Bucks history. That trade started the downward spiral that this franschise is currently in. Redd dribbles more than a new born I wonder who on the Bucks bench Garnett just told to shut up? I sure do miss Cassell. Anyone else notice Bell laughing 3 or 4 times throughout the night? Two of them came after Celtics baskets. Redd laughed his way to the bench too. Our max player. Charlie Bell trying hard to get the Celtics to trade for him this summer.   [read the full post]

Who would’ve thought this team would be 3 games below .500 with a month left in the season, almost a lock for the playoffs? The final stretch of the season starts tomorrow at home against the league leading Boston Celtics. Sam Cassell is expected to make his Celtic debut but Rajon Rondo may cau...

By Dane Jones Nov. 24, 2007 The NBA season is officially underway, and there have been some great individual performances by some of the league’s best players. LeBron James, Tracy McGrady and Kobe Bryant, all dropped 40-plus point games in the first week of the NBA season. The 2006-2007 NBA C...

By Matt Carter My game ball I’m actually going to split it two ways between Michael Redd and Andrew Bogut. Redd, as always, was killer in shooting 27 points on 7-11 shooting. He missed a few free throws, but was still clutch enough to put the game out of reach for the Mavericks.

Milwaukee Bucks Coach: Larry Krystkowiak 2006-2007 Record: 28-54 06-07 Expected Record: 29.5-52.5 Offensive Rating: 106.7 (13th in NBA, league average 106.5) Defensive Rating: 112.0 (29th in NBA, league average 106.5) eFG%: 50.4% (8th in NBA) Possessions per 48: 92.3 (11th in NBA)

By tenaciousT Let’s start with the rumor that Danny is still interested in Sarunas Jasikevicius (Golden State) and perhaps Charlie Bell (Milwaukee). Milwaukee sites and Celtic message boards say Charlie Bell and the Bucks are at an impass and the Cs are a possible alternative choice. Hmmm, again…

By broham Yi's case encapsulates some of the ironic twists of China’s growth, the most basic one being this: For a small-market city like Milwaukee, Yi Jianlian is a miracle shot at the world’s biggest fan base. But to China’s hottest prospect since Yao Ming, Milwaukee signifies banishment to the c...

By Blogmaster Stories are circulating suggesting that if the Bucks do not accomodate Yi and trade him to a large market team as his agent has demanded, then Yi has some unique options he will exercise that will make it painless for him to extinguish the Bucks draft rights. It is said, for instance, that he c...

By Alex Boeder July 3, 2007 adboeder@uwm.edu Will Yi or won’t Yi play? Bucks top pick a bold choice in busy NBA Draft As expected, the 2007 NBA Draft was marked by the fast-developing good fortunes of the Pacific Northwest, with the Portland Trail Blazers selecting Greg Oden first and the Se...

By Blogmaster What I like about him: Teams with good point guards tend to advance in the playoffs, and Conley is considered by many the best point guard prospect in this draft. It appears as though he could upgrade the Bucks significantly at that key position. I love his lightning quickness and unmatched s...

By David Friedman LeBron James had 24 points, nine assists and five rebounds as the Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Milwaukee Bucks 109-96 at Quicken Loans Arena. Earl Boykins led Milwaukee with 28 points and seven assists. Cleveland's win, coupled with New Jersey beating Chicago 106-97 and Washington edging Indiana 98-95, moved the Cavs up to the second seed in the East and dropped Chicago from second to fifth. Cleveland will play Washington in the first round, a rematch of last year's first round--but the depleted Wizards will be without the services of Gilbert Arenas and Caron Butler. Chicago could have earned that seemingly easy matchup simply by winning in New Jersey; now the Bulls will have to face the defending champion Miami Heat in the first rou...   [read the full post]

By Blogmaster I want to concentrate on one of the clips called "Champions at Last". Its from the Bucks Radio Network's call of the 1971 NBA Finals which pitted your Milwaukee Bucks against the Baltimore Bullets (now, obviously, the Washington "Wizards" -- God, I hate that nickname). Here is the relevant...

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