The future potential of 2020's projected playoff teams from worst to best:

[buckalis]

Anthony Davis + 14 roster spots >>>>> Traveon Graham + Miles Bridges + Malik Monk + PJ Washington + everyone else they got. And it isn’t even close.

I take a 39 year old LeBron over any of those dudes hands down.

 

[buckalis]

(this is)... the Bucks season of Destiny... being cancelled...

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[buckalis]

An extremely interesting development that may affect the entire league's future has happened yesterday (March the 9th '20) with the Milwaukee Bucks...

Coach Budenholger, kept ALL the "core roster" of 7 players rested and only used the "deep roster" of 8 players + 1 out of the 2-way contracts to play against a contending for the title team at Denver (total of 9 players). The total value of the 5 players contracts that were used in the starting roster was only 11.5M !!!.

The move, clearly was not one of "load managment", but it rather seems that the Bucks were "experimenting" in order to:

1. Evaluate their deep roster players against one of the best teams in the NBA.

2. Decide which players are useful and which can be replaced in order to further upgrade the team for the next season.

3. Decide which out of the "deep roster" players can be "upgraded" to add on the "hard core" roster of 7 players that were not used at all and therefore significantly upgrade the roster for the following season ('20/'21), by moving one (or more) of the much more expensive contracts that are on the "hard core" of players.

The results of the "experiment" were extremely encouraging, the Bucks lost of course the game 114-95 as expected, but the "deep roster" players were able to win two of the quarters (the 2nd and the 3d) and have shown that the coaching team can rely on them to "keep the game going" when coming from bench.

The starting 5 were: Sterling Brown (PG), Marvin Williams (SG), Pat Connaughton (SF), Thanasis Antetokounmpo (PF) and Robin Lopez (C), while Frank Mason, Kyle Korver, Ersan Ilyasova and D.J. Wilson came from bench, which suggests that Kyle Korver (aging - may retire next season), Ersan Ilyasova (aging - 7M non-guaranteed contract for next season) and D.J Wilson (final year on rookie contract worth 4.5M for next season) won't probably be in the Bucks roster for the next season, which will give to the Bucks additional value of 11.5M to add on the 10M of cash they have before the lux tax threshold for next season (total of 21M of contracts value can be added to the team). The use of Frank Mason as back-up PG, suggests that the Bucks are considering to sign him in a regular contract for the next season in order to extend their guards depth.

If the Bucks will move one of the contracts of Eric Bledsoe (17M for the next season) and/or Brook Lopez (13M for the next season) they can add another 30M of contracts value to the roster, thus ending up with a total of 51M of contracts that can be added.

If the Bucks will pick two players during the draft night and do sign Frank Mason in the main roster, it will mean that they will still end up with 46M for the (only) two roster spots which will remain empty for next season, which then means that a (or two) major and impactful contract value addition(s) can be made, which would of course cause for the Bucks to be much better that they already are...

Of course such a major and very possible to happen as it looks development, would have to cause the competition to react accordingly as to stay competitive and then could lead in a "new era of future super-teams" appearing in the NBA.

 

[tlance]

An extremely interesting development that may affect the entire league's future has happened yesterday (March the 9th '20) with the Milwaukee Bucks...

Coach Budenholger, kept ALL the "core roster" of 7 players rested and only used the "deep roster" of 8 players + 1 out of the 2-way contracts to play against a contending for the title team at Denver (total of 9 players). The total value of the 5 players contracts that were used in the starting roster was only 11.5M !!!.

The move, clearly was not one of "load managment", but it rather seems that the Bucks were "experimenting" in order to:

1. Evaluate their deep roster players against one of the best teams in the NBA.

2. Decide which players are useful and which can be replaced in order to further upgrade the team for the next season.

3. Decide which out of the "deep roster" players can be "upgraded" to add on the "hard core" roster of 7 players that were not used at all and therefore significantly upgrade the roster for the following season ('20/'21), by moving one (or more) of the much more expensive contracts that are on the "hard core" of players.

The results of the "experiment" were extremely encouraging, the Bucks lost of course the game 114-95 as expected, but the "deep roster" players were able to win two of the quarters (the 2nd and the 3d) and have shown that the coaching team can rely on them to "keep the game going" when coming from bench.

The starting 5 were: Sterling Brown (PG), Marvin Williams (SG), Pat Connaughton (SF), Thanasis Antetokounmpo (PF) and Robin Lopez (C), while Frank Mason, Kyle Korver, Ersan Ilyasova and D.J. Wilson came from bench, which suggests that Kyle Korver (aging - may retire next season), Ersan Ilyasova (aging - 7M non-guaranteed contract for next season) and D.J Wilson (final year on rookie contract worth 4.5M for next season) won't probably be in the Bucks roster for the next season, which will give to the Bucks additional value of 11.5M to add on the 10M of cash they have before the lux tax threshold for next season (total of 21M of contracts value can be added to the team). The use of Frank Mason as back-up PG, suggests that the Bucks are considering to sign him in a regular contract for the next season in order to extend their guards depth.

If the Bucks will move one of the contracts of Eric Bledsoe (17M for the next season) and/or Brook Lopez (13M for the next season) they can add another 30M of contracts value to the roster, thus ending up with a total of 51M of contracts that can be added.

If the Bucks will pick two players during the draft night and do sign Frank Mason in the main roster, it will mean that they will still end up with 46M for the (only) two roster spots which will remain empty for next season, which then means that a (or two) major and impactful contract value addition(s) can be made, which would of course cause for the Bucks to be much better that they already are...

Of course such a major and very possible to happen as it looks development, would have to cause the competition to react accordingly as to stay competitive and then could lead in a "new era of future super-teams" appearing in the NBA.

Yeah. The Bucks resting their vets is sure to impact the league for years to come.

Do you actually believe the garbage you type?

 

[buckalis]

Yeah. The Bucks resting their vets is sure to impact the league for years to come.

Do you actually believe the garbage you type?

Yeah... they rested all the starting roster +6th + 7th against the ...Nuggets!

 

[tlance]

Yeah... they rested all the starting roster +6th + 7th against the ...Nuggets!

Yes they did.

Not to evaluate their bench.

They did it because they were playing on the road without Giannis and they were likely to lose anyway. It was good opportunity to get those guys much needed rest in advance of the playoffs.

Besides, the only thing left to play for at this point is seeding in the Finals.

So yeah, all they were trying to do is rest their players.

 

[tlance]

Second night of a back to back playing at altitude without your superstar?

Rest everyone.

That is a scheduling loss waiting to happen. No need to put extra wear and tear on those vets.

 

[buckalis]

Second night of a back to back playing at altitude without your superstar?

Rest everyone.

That is a scheduling loss waiting to happen. No need to put extra wear and tear on those vets.

Yes they did.

Not to evaluate their bench.

They did it because they were playing on the road without Giannis and they were likely to lose anyway. It was good opportunity to get those guys much needed rest in advance of the playoffs.

Besides, the only thing left to play for at this point is seeding in the Finals.

So yeah, all they were trying to do is rest their players.

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[trojanfan12]

@buckalis

if Giannis does leave in 2 years (not likely, but certainly possible)

then the Bucks are bottom 5 in the league in terms of future. Their current future is bright because of Giannis. That is the reason. Take him away and they are competing for a low playoff spot with no upside whatsoever.

At best, they could be this years OKC. No shot at winning the title, but good enough to get to the playoffs and maybe pull off an upset.

 

[tlance]

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Is this your way of admitting you have a masturbation problem?

 

[trojanfan12]

An extremely interesting development that may affect the entire league's future has happened yesterday (March the 9th '20) with the Milwaukee Bucks...

Uh, yesterday was March 14th.

Coach Budenholger, kept ALL the "core roster" of 7 players rested

Pretty sure it's Budenholzer.

1. Evaluate their deep roster players against one of the best teams in the NBA.

Why would they need to do that? I could have told them that their "deep roster players" weren't going to be able to perform very well against one of the best teams in the NBA and saved them the loss.

2. Decide which players are useful and which can be replaced in order to further upgrade the team for the next season.

3. Decide which out of the "deep roster" players can be "upgraded" to add on the "hard core" roster of 7 players that were not used at all and therefore significantly upgrade the roster for the following season ('20/'21), by moving one (or more) of the much more expensive contracts that are on the "hard core" of players.

These 2 are basically saying the same thing. You just used more werdz on #3.

 

[tlance]

It is a good thing all @buckalis does is talk basketball.

 

[fordman84]

Love the new smilie, @buckalis

 

[buckalis]

At best, they could be this years OKC. No shot at winning the title, but good enough to get to the playoffs and maybe pull off an upset.

Let me see... with Bledsoe, DDV, Hill, Middleton and Lopez starters, the Bucks would be at best as good as OKC... :buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck::buckssuck:

 

[trojanfan12]

Yeah. The Bucks resting their vets is sure to impact the league for years to come.

Do you actually believe the garbage you type?

I do. buck-Alice has me convinced.

The Bucks are clearly the NBA's flagship team and will remain so for at least the next decade or so as more and more superstar players line up to sign team friendly deals and/or teams eager to help the Bucks will trade their best player to them for late 2nd round picks and marginal players.

In fact, I've heard that at least a couple of star players are considering paying the Bucks for the privilege of being on the team.

 

[buckalis]

Love the new smilie, @buckalis

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[buckalis]

I do. buck-Alice has me convinced.

The Bucks are clearly the NBA's flagship team and will remain so for at least the next decade or so as more and more superstar players line up to sign team friendly deals and/or teams eager to help the Bucks will trade their best player to them for late 2nd round picks and marginal players.

In fact, I've heard that at least a couple of star players are considering paying the Bucks for the privilege of being on the team.

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[tlance]

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You really should see a doctor.

Chronic masturbation is a serious problem.

 

[tlance]

At best, they could be this years OKC. No shot at winning the title, but good enough to get to the playoffs and maybe pull off an upset.

I think they would be pretty close to what Orlando is.

 

[Wamu]