2010 NBA Off-Season Grade-Milwaukee Bucks: A-

[SnakeLH2006]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/4362 ... ukee-bucks

Now that the big names have been signed to new contracts, teams have re-built, re-loaded or stood ground, the grading of the 2010 NBA Off-season can be dished out. One team that has made huge strides towards becoming a championship contender have been the Milwaukee Bucks.

A team that went 46-36 a year ago looks to be a big player in the Eastern Conference next season.

Key additions to the roster are eleven-year veteran swingman Corey Maggette, eight-year power forward Drew Gooden, two-year guard Chris Douglas-Roberts, one-year forward Jon Brockman and back-up point guard and ten-year veteran Keyon Dooling. All added via free agency or trades.

General Manager John Hammond has also been very busy in re-signing the eight-year veteran out of Miami John Salmons to a new contract. Salmons, a trade deadline masterpiece from a year ago, was re-signed to a five-year deal worth upwards of forty-million dollars.

The Milwaukee Bucks and GM John Hammond also had a very good draft adding young power forward Larry Sanders from VCU in the first round and in the second round 6'7" forward Darington Hobson from New Mexico and 6'9" forward Tiny Gallon from Oklahoma.

Adding these players to an already up and coming roster that bolsters point guard Brandon Jennings coming off a stellar rookie season, often injured center Andrew Bogut, who is a top five center in the league when healthy and numerous key role players will put the Bucks in the upper half of the Eastern Conference for years to come.

Overall, the Milwaukee Bucks off-season has been very successful, grading out to be an A- because of the acquisitions of Maggette, Gooden and the other highly successful role players added by John Hammond that will make an already exciting Bucks team even more explosive.

I like a few things from this article...

1) It acknowledges anything other than the names Wade, Lebron, or Bosh....aka Maggette, Gooden, CDR, Brockman, Dooling, Sanders.

2) They realize our Bucks won 46 games last year, and only added more depth/talent with no subtractions.

3) They acknowledge Milwaukee as a major threat in the Eastern Conference.

I'm going with 50+ wins with the new talent and at least we shut up the Bulls fans.

[ReasonablySober]

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[trwi7]

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[bogut6]

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[milweskee]

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[SnakeLH2006]

So what the hell is: br;dr?

Should I not post new news about Bucks off-season grades? A- seems pretty good with a good article.

Did I mess up something here? I'm sorry if I'm just a long-time lurker (5 years) and post some things (new articles about the Bucks) now and then in the slow time (offseason).

[blkout]

br;dr = bleacher report; didn't read

[SnakeLH2006]

br;dr = bleacher report; didn't read

Is that bad? BR is pretty damn good with the Bucks. Is BR a no-no on realgm? That seems kinda lame as they are pretty cool about the Bucks (not many media outlets are)? If so, I'll abstain.

[MilBucksBackOnTop06]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/436210-2010-nba-off-season-grade-milwaukee-bucks

Now that the big names have been signed to new contracts, teams have re-built, re-loaded or stood ground, the grading of the 2010 NBA Off-season can be dished out. One team that has made huge strides towards becoming a championship contender have been the Milwaukee Bucks.

A team that went 46-36 a year ago looks to be a big player in the Eastern Conference next season.

Key additions to the roster are eleven-year veteran swingman Corey Maggette, eight-year power forward Drew Gooden, two-year guard Chris Douglas-Roberts, one-year forward Jon Brockman and back-up point guard and ten-year veteran Keyon Dooling. All added via free agency or trades.

General Manager John Hammond has also been very busy in re-signing the eight-year veteran out of Miami John Salmons to a new contract. Salmons, a trade deadline masterpiece from a year ago, was re-signed to a five-year deal worth upwards of forty-million dollars.

The Milwaukee Bucks and GM John Hammond also had a very good draft adding young power forward Larry Sanders from VCU in the first round and in the second round 6'7" forward Darington Hobson from New Mexico and 6'9" forward Tiny Gallon from Oklahoma.

Adding these players to an already up and coming roster that bolsters point guard Brandon Jennings coming off a stellar rookie season, often injured center Andrew Bogut, who is a top five center in the league when healthy and numerous key role players will put the Bucks in the upper half of the Eastern Conference for years to come.

Overall, the Milwaukee Bucks off-season has been very successful, grading out to be an A- because of the acquisitions of Maggette, Gooden and the other highly successful role players added by John Hammond that will make an already exciting Bucks team even more explosive.

I like a few things from this article...

1) It acknowledges anything other than the names Wade, Lebron, or Bosh....aka Maggette, Gooden, CDR, Brockman, Dooling, Sanders.

2) They realize our Bucks won 46 games last year, and only added more depth/talent with no subtractions.

3) They acknowledge Milwaukee as a major threat in the Eastern Conference.

I'm going with 50+ wins with the new talent and at least we shut up the Bulls fans.

Don't get too giddy and cocky on the Bulls fans...that is a good ballclub as well now. Don't fool yourself.
They really helped us out by not signing Brad Miller.
Why the heck they let him go and did not resign him for the peanuts he got in Houston and half as much as Hakim Warrick got I have absolutely no idea.
That may have given us the division. Miller, Boozer and Deng along that frontline with Noah, Gibson and whoever (McGrady, another mistake!) would have nailed down the #3 seed.
If they had Miller I would say we couldn't beat them...He would have balanced out Bogut with Boozer over Gooden and Deng and Maggette a wash. I cannot understand their reasoning but oh well...thanks Bulls. But don't sell them short...my friend.

[SnakeLH2006]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/436210-2010-nba-off-season-grade-milwaukee-bucks

Now that the big names have been signed to new contracts, teams have re-built, re-loaded or stood ground, the grading of the 2010 NBA Off-season can be dished out. One team that has made huge strides towards becoming a championship contender have been the Milwaukee Bucks.

A team that went 46-36 a year ago looks to be a big player in the Eastern Conference next season.

Key additions to the roster are eleven-year veteran swingman Corey Maggette, eight-year power forward Drew Gooden, two-year guard Chris Douglas-Roberts, one-year forward Jon Brockman and back-up point guard and ten-year veteran Keyon Dooling. All added via free agency or trades.

General Manager John Hammond has also been very busy in re-signing the eight-year veteran out of Miami John Salmons to a new contract. Salmons, a trade deadline masterpiece from a year ago, was re-signed to a five-year deal worth upwards of forty-million dollars.

The Milwaukee Bucks and GM John Hammond also had a very good draft adding young power forward Larry Sanders from VCU in the first round and in the second round 6'7" forward Darington Hobson from New Mexico and 6'9" forward Tiny Gallon from Oklahoma.

Adding these players to an already up and coming roster that bolsters point guard Brandon Jennings coming off a stellar rookie season, often injured center Andrew Bogut, who is a top five center in the league when healthy and numerous key role players will put the Bucks in the upper half of the Eastern Conference for years to come.

Overall, the Milwaukee Bucks off-season has been very successful, grading out to be an A- because of the acquisitions of Maggette, Gooden and the other highly successful role players added by John Hammond that will make an already exciting Bucks team even more explosive.

I like a few things from this article...

1) It acknowledges anything other than the names Wade, Lebron, or Bosh....aka Maggette, Gooden, CDR, Brockman, Dooling, Sanders.

2) They realize our Bucks won 46 games last year, and only added more depth/talent with no subtractions.

3) They acknowledge Milwaukee as a major threat in the Eastern Conference.

I'm going with 50+ wins with the new talent and at least we shut up the Bulls fans.

Don't get too giddy and cocky on the Bulls fans...that is a good ballclub as well now. Don't fool yourself.
They really helped us out by not signing Brad Miller.
Why the heck they let him go and did not resign him for the peanuts he got in Houston and half as much as Hakim Warrick got I have absolutely no idea.
That may have given us the division. Miller, Boozer and Deng along that frontline with Noah, Gibson and whoever (McGrady, another mistake!) would have nailed down the #3 seed.
If they had Miller I would say we couldn't beat them...He would have balanced out Bogut with Boozer over Gooden and Deng and Maggette a wash. I cannot understand their reasoning but oh well...thanks Bulls. But don't sell them short...my friend.

I'm pretty wasted right now...well it's late Sat. nite....but I don't have my MMBBOT decoder ring nearby. What?

I like you dude, MMBOT, but without some sense of paragraphs I have not the slightest idea WTF you just said?

[icat2000]

Don't worry it doesn't get much clearer when your sober.

[SnakeLH2006]

Don't worry it doesn't get much clearer when your sober.

Thank you icat2000, I thought it may have been just me.

[trwi7]

There's nothing wrong with Bleacher Report other than they're just fans with opinions like us, except they put everything in the form of an article which makes it hard to take them seriously. If they would put it in blog form or just like a message board or something, no one would have a problem with it.

[Chapter29]

Don't worry Snake, its a tough crowd around here.

We have had several of these articles and I am in a bit of a wait and see with our team and its predicted success.

I think we got stronger this offseasn, but it really only matters to me if we got some players that can perform better than the alternatives. If they wind up being simply just as good, then we really didn't gain much. Being 8 deep vs 11 deep only really matters if injuries kick in and I believe in quality over quantity.

My feeling is that this roster just isn't complete. Hammond has done a nice job of managing the roster he inherited from Harris. Capped out low talent roster with essentially only one underachieving piece in Bogut. Now he has a moderate talent roster with a couple of nice young pieces that unfortunately is pretty similar in talent 5-11. He is following his course of acquiring assets that he feels are of value around the league. Something he had little of, just 2 years ago.

Hammond has been waiting out this Redd contract since the day he arrived. His first "complete" roster will be in place once he makes that move, whatever it is, even if its just waiting it out. He's got the potential players in Jennings and maybe Sanders. He's got his glue guy and paint defender in Bogut. He simply needs to leverage that Redd asset and consolidate some of our talent to have a piece that sits in that wing man kind of role (or better) between Jennings/Bogut and the rest of the roster.

My guess with this current roster (Redd is moved at the deadline or sooner) we are roughly a 50 win team, give or take a couple. We might be able to get out of the first round. Make the right Redd move and get a little lucky with Jennings/Sanders and we could get even stronger.

[worthlessBucks]

Google needs to stop including BR articles in their news search. 13 year old Billy from Mendota doesn't have the inside scoop on Brett Favre's return. He is credible though.

[Wise1]

My feeling is that this roster just isn't complete.

If you're speaking to the premise that Hammond will use the Redd asset to complete the roster, then I agree. However, if it is your feeling that the roster is incomplete on the basis of talent and need, I'd say we are in relatively great shape in that regard.

When compared to the league as a whole, the Bucks are as complete as it gets. What we don't have is a bonafied top 10 superstar. That type of talent is rare and generally comes via luck of the draft. Miami has 3 of said talents and the Lakers have two. That's 5 of the top 10 players right there. To beat that type of talent, you have to have quality depth. This is the position that the Bucks are in right now. Quality depth around one top 20 player in Andrew Bogut.

I think Salmons and Maggette are both solid third wheel guys in support of Bogut and Jennings. The only thing the Bucks are missing from a talent/depth perspective is a top 10 player. Hopefully Bogut can play consistently enough and remain healthy enough to crack that top 10 and give the Bucks a better chance at winning an NBA Championship.