Preview: Bucks/Pistons

by Alex Boeder on Oct 8, 2008 4:58 PM CDT

The Bucks visit the Palace of Auburn Hills to take on the Pistons tonight. Tipoff is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. This particular one-game road trip is abbreviated (they play in Lacrosse on Friday) and easily travelable (they embark on a trip to China next week).

On the court, the Bucks hope to rebound from a 117-79 pummeling delivered by the Wolves on Monday night. Allowing 117 points and blocking zero shots at home against the Wolves wasn't an inspiring start defensively, but keep in mind that game featured a pretty small dose of Milwaukee first-stringers, though Ramon Sessions managed 35 minutes.

Andrew Bogut is expected to play tonight after missing the preseason opener with a head full of headaches.

Bogut said he believes the headaches may stem from a childhood incident, when he rammed his head on the top of a picket fence.

"When I was about 11, I still remember it to this day," Bogut said. "I cut myself open on a fence. I've gotten them ever since then. I was playing football outside and bent over to pick up the football, and it was getting dark, and I smacked my head right on it."

Oh, and word from Detroit? Rasheed Wallace is (apparently) the chatty type.

WTMJ 620 will carry the game and you can try NBA.com's live stream with NBA Audio League Pass. There's also some debate about whether the game will be viewable on DirecTV's League Pass.

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Joe Alexander is out AGAIN.

Either he is soft as butter, or his injury is much worse than originally expected.

by upnorthfan on Oct 8, 2008 6:25 PM CDT reply actions

Ted Davis just said Alexander’s expected to play Friday…sounds like they’re being cautious with all of these guys. Ridnour and RJ were in the layup line but also held out.

Bell’s situation sounds like it’s been a problem since he had surgery a few months ago, though—we’ll have to watch if that lingers.

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by Frank Madden on Oct 8, 2008 7:54 PM CDT reply actions

Sessions

Does his 35 minutes point to him being the starter? Or are they going to put Ridnour in there and take Sessions off the bench?

"I'm so clean, cats think I sip Ajax."

by Mitchell Maurer on Oct 9, 2008 7:09 AM CDT reply actions

I don’t think this is indicative of anything, just an opportunity to give Sessions major burn while so many of their other guards are banged up. Lue and Sessions played together for a bit last night as well, but with Ridnour and Bell out they don’t have much choice but to play Sessions a lot.

Aside from that, Skiles would probably prefer to give Sessions some on-the-job training in the preseason. Lue’s also been dinged up and Skiles knows what he’s capable of anyway. I don’t expect Ridnour to be a savior but I think he’ll have to be badly outplayed by Sessions to lose his job at the start of the season, and Sessions has been up and down so far.

I think it’s more likely that Ridnour misses time due to injury—in that case it will be interesting to see how Skiles handles the Sessions/Lue rotation. It doesn’t seem like Ridnour’s knee tendinitis is serious, but especially given all his nagging injuries last year it’s probably not to wise to assume he’ll play 82 in 08/09.

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by Frank Madden on Oct 9, 2008 11:56 AM CDT up reply actions