All New MILWAUKEE BUCKS thread, the everlasting title contenders!

[Buckalis]

This development, may mean that Giannis Antetokounmpo may spend his entire career with the Bucks:

https://deadline.com/2019/11/disney-developing-feature-film-about-milwaukee-bucks-star-giannis-antetokounmpo-1202773702/

Normally, a player that is the most popular in the world and has his image linked with the Bucks, wouldn't want to change the proven winning status that surrounds him and risk the mythical income that is to follow in the near future.

Certainly the Bucks have to only do one thing in order to secure Giannis staying with them and therefore financially benefit their (huge) share from Giannis's success... That is to ensure that they surround Giannis with enough talent and stay competitive for as long as his career lasts.

[Buckalis]

Convincing performance from the Bucks against the Wolves in Minesota last evening, they have never let them take a breather... The Bucks visit California to face the Clippers next, in a game that will provide some real guidance on where the teams really stand. The pairing is favored above all others among predictions to be this season's NBA finals for the title.

[Buckalis]

Here is two trade suggestions which although not "noisy", I think would help the Bucks improve significantly...

1.With GSW: Alec Burks for Wes Matthews

2.With Kings: Ersan Ilyasova for Nemanja Bjelica

I think both those trades would keep all teams happy but better too, because:

1. Mathews resembles more Thompson's style of game (albeit at a lower lever) than any other player the Warriors currently have in their roster, but he can serve as a good replacement coming from bench, even after Klay returns.

2. The Kings are missing more a PF/sbCF style of play like Ilyasova is at 4, than they need a SF/PF style of game like Bjelica is... Especially after they also added Ariza in their roster.

3. The Bucks are really overcrowded at 3&D wings by having all Connaughton, Brown and Korver, to the extend that by letting Matthews go, it won't thin the position or affect the performance of the team at all. By adding Burks next to Divincenzo, they will get extra depth at Combo guards, which will then allow starting Hill next to Bledsoe and thus improve the starting roster.

But the Bucks are also overcrowded at the PF/sbCF position with D.J. Wilson and Dragan Bender both in their Bench next to Robin Lopez, in order to buck up Giannis and Brook Lopez... By adding Bjelica, the Bucks would be able to get a better in transition game than Ilyasova to come from bench at PF when Giannis needs breaths, but they will be able to also use him at SF when a "3 towers" line up is needed, in order to match up better with opponent teams that can play big lineups.

[Buckalis]

Another big victory for the Bucks after beating the Clippers in LA... Whenever Hill was on the floor along with Bledsoe and Giannis, the trio seemed to lift the Bucks on another level.

Here are two trade suggestions which although not "noisy", I think would help the Bucks to take significant step ahead:

1. Bucks with GSW: Alec Burks for Wes Matthews

2. Bucks with Kings: Ersan Ilyasova for Nemanja Bjelica

I think both those trades would keep all teams happy but better too, because:

1. Mathews resembles more Thompson's style of game (albeit at a lower lever) than any other player the Warriors currently have in their roster, but he can serve as a good replacement coming from bench, even after Klay returns.

2. The Kings are missing more a PF/sbCF style of play like Ilyasova is at 4, than they need a SF/PF style of game like Bjelica is... Especially after they also added Ariza in their roster.

3. The Bucks are really overcrowded at 3&D wings by having all Connaughton, Brown and Korver on their bench to the extend, that by letting Matthews go it won't thin the position or affect the performance of the team at all. By adding Burks next to Divincenzo, they will get extra depth at Combo guards, which will then allow starting Hill next to Bledsoe and thus improve the starting roster but strengthen up the bench too.

But the Bucks are also overcrowded at the PF/sbCF position with D.J. Wilson and Dragan Bender both in their Bench next to Robin Lopez, in order to buck up Giannis and Brook Lopez... By adding Bjelica, the Bucks would be able to get a better in transition game than Ilyasova to come from bench at PF when Giannis needs breaths, but they will be able to also use him at SF when a "3 towers" line up is needed, in order to match up better with opponent teams that can play big lineups.

[Buckalis]

The Bucks have requested waivers on Rayjon Tucker, Trevor Lacey and Jemerrio Jones.

Trevor Lacey and Jemerio Jones were signed on an exhibit-10 contract, just after Jaylen Adams and Luke Maye were waived and then they were waived again without ever having playing time with the Bucks… All exhibit-10 players, can now be signed with the Wisconsin Herd.

Out of all, the Bucks are most interested on keeping Rayon Tucker within the "family" and therefore him to sign with the Herd. J.Jones is expected to sign with Herd at anytime soon.

It is a player’s decision if he will sign with the Herd in the G-league or not, normally the players are looking to sign with an NBA team (even on a 2-way contract), before they decide signing with a G-league team.

Wisconsin Herd announced their training camp roster and have managed to keep all they wanted in the "Bucks family"

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/wisconsin-herd-announces-training-camp-roster-and-schedule/

All Luke Maye, Jaylen Adams, Rayjon Tucker, Jemerio Jones & Travor Lacey who the Bucks had invited in their training camp under exhibit-10 contracts, have signed with the Herd, while the only returning with the Herd player from last season is Brandon McCoy for who the Bucks also think highly.

The Bucks 2-way contracts of Mason & Reynolds, will of course be the leading force for the very promising Herd this season.

[Buckalis]

The Bucks are visiting the Jazz in Utah tonight, to play their 9th game out of a schedule that had them play some of the most demanding games of the season right in the beginning of the season.

If the Bucks will win this, they won't only keep being undefeated against West conference teams, but they will have put successfully behind them all Rockets, Clippers and Jazz leaving only the game against the Lakers in LA as the most demanding remaining game in the West... That would ensure that the Bucks would have the potential to end up with an impressive record against West conference teams by possibly dropping less than seven games!

[Buckalis]

Four game road trip to the West has gone pretty good for the Bucks, as the return home with a 3-1 record against the Clippers, the Wolves, the Jazz and the Thunder (4-1 if one includes the Rockets that the Bucks have opened the season playing against), but unfortunately, Khris Middleton will miss up to four weeks due to an injury he suffered on his leg after having a contact with a knee in the game against the Thunder.

[Buckalis]

This is a sad day for the Bucks... Watching Malcom Brogdon wearing another's team uniform and playing against the Bucks is hard to swallow... In 4 hrs the Bucks are playing against the Pacers.

[Buckalis]

Five consecutive wins now for the Bucks, despite having Middleton out... The Bucks now tie with the Celtics at the 1st seed of the Eastern ranking and return home with a strong possibility to continue their winning strike.

[Buckalis]

With a 111-102 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night, the Bucks won their ninth consecutive game. That marked the Bucks' longest winning streak since the franchise won 10 straight back in 1986, and largely speaks to the team's impressive ability to simply find ways to win.

The Bucks are now looking to match the 1986 record by beating the Cavs tonight and even to exceed it if the team can beat the Hornets too a game later...

[Buckalis]

Milwaukee Bucks: 12-0 streak,

Wisconsin Herd: 9-0 streak,

The in depth work the organization has done this year in order to secure their contending future is phenomenal.

[Buckalis]

The 6th of December is a big celebration day for the Bucks due to Giannis having his birthday, but this 6th of December, was really special...

The Bucks crushed the LA Clippers and advanced to a historic 14-0 record, which is something the team never achieved in 46 years... (from 1973), but additionally, the G-league affiliate of the Bucks, the Wisconsin Herd, added another victory to their impressive streak record and made it 11-0, thus advancing further what already was the best winning streak in the history of the Herd...

The Bucks are now targeting to extend their streak up to 16-0 by winning the next two games that follow, if they achieve it, they will match the 2nd best streak in the history of the team and will be targeting the best streak the team ever had back in 1971 which was an impressive 20-0 record.

[Buckalis]

The 13th of December will now be recorded in the Bucks history book... it was the 17th consecutive game the Bucks won this season, thus extending the winning streak to 17-0.

This is the 2nd best streak record the Bucks ever achieved for as long as they exist as an NBA team and is only three games behind to the 20-0 streak the Bucks achieved nearly half a century ago, back in 1971 with Kareem Abdhul Jabar in their roster.

Next target for the Bucks as anyone would imagine, is to win three more games in order to tie the best ever record in the team's history and then of course, to win one more as to beat it!

[Buckalis]

After 34 games for the Bucks, their record stands at 29-5 leading the league... It means that if the Bucks would only manage to perform on 0.500 level for the rest of the regular season, they would end up with a 53 Wins season!

Clearly the Bucks are on pace to win 70 games this season and will end up near that... In any case, one reasonable shouldn't expect less than 65 wins, which is a significant upgrade over the 60 wins the Bucks achieved during the previous season.

[Buckalis]

The 36-6 record the Bucks have achieved with 40 games remaining in the regular season, doesn't only keep the Bucks on pace to end up with an impressive 70 wins season, but in the odd (and surely impossible to happen) case that the Bucks would only achieve a 0.500 record for the remaining of the games, they would still end up with 56 wins at the end of the season...

The Bucks now only need to win 2 out of every 3 games of the remaining schedule in order to beat the record of 60 wins (which was the best in the entire league for 2018/19) they have achieved the season before...