Robert 'Tractor' Traylor found dead, Off-season priorities, Bad-luck Bucks?

I don’t see Faried as being worthy of a 10th pick. I would love to see the Bucks drafting or trading for him later in the draft.

My “board,” as the Bucks GM, has three players I would draft with my 10th pick. The first two players are tied for my first priority. I would take the third player if the other two are taken.

1- The guy whose name is similar to the famous German ship (Bismark).
2- Jordan Hamilton (in my opinion, he is better than Leonard and Burks)
3- Valanciunas (spelling?)

I would know who to draft depending on who I know I can trade away.

Sorry for getting started with this conversation so early.

Never saw him play, but don’t have to to know that it’s tragic.

And Bogut over CP3 and D Will was a no-brainer at the time.

Bogut was rated higher than both coming out of College – and Milw had two promising PGs at the time.

Of course we all know how things turned out – but the bogut pick was one move you really can’t fault Larry Harris for. 90% of the GMs would have made the same pick given the circumstances, IMO. [just be glad he didn’t pick M williams]

You guys are all making fair points, and If I had to fall on one side of the line I would agree that the Bucks are often too impatient, but simply not seeing the court doesn’t always mean a team has given up on a player, especially a young guy.

I think practice is an element of professional sports that gets consistently overlooked. While the lack of summer league and potential lockout does complicated things, I’m still hopeful that additional time spent practicing with the team (sans injuries, too) will go a long way toward helping Sanders improve.

I remember a guy from Football Outsiders (I think) getting interviewed on Bill Simmons’ podcast (bear with me). He talked about the problem with old football teams is that they don’t feel like they need to practice as much because they’re either set in their ways or don’t think there’s much to improve. It was basically a way of explaining why veterans can sometimes be overrated in terms of helping a team improve. I think the same is true for basketball.

So while the Bucks have a few veterans that are playing pretty big roles, their core (Bogut, Jennings, maybe Sanders?) is still young enough that plain-old practicing is hugely important. I hate to make excuses for the past season’s Bucks, but there was probably a little truth to Skiles’ complaining about never having a full unit together to work on drills and such.

Whew, that was too long…

At least we aren’t Hawks fans. That must be terrible…

Same [stuff], different day. Josh Smith takes dumb jumpers, they can’t get past the second round, and they really aren’t ever going to take that next step…oh, and they have done everything possible to lock themselves into this highest level of NBA Hell…119 million guaranteed for Joe Johnson. Ewwwwwwwww.