The Milwaukee Bucks have successfully acquired a group of long, versatile defenders to match up with offenses that are becoming increasingly difficult to stop. Unfortunately for the players and front office, head coach Jason Kidd is letting them down with his backward defensive schemes. Kidd
Coaches constantly wrestle with the balance between old and new, integrating the newest trends and discoveries with their deeply ingrained thoughts on how the game of basketball is supposed to be played. Perhaps it’s my relative youth (I’m knocking on the door of 26, so
Now that the 2017-18 NBA season has eked pasts its quarter-pole mark, rumor has it we’re free to hand out report grades for every team. So, ya know, let’s do that. Tunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale Hardwood Knocks already tackled the Western Conference, which you can, and should,
Welcome back to Swishes with Sampson, where I glance around the NBA and pick out five things I particularly enjoyed (or didn’t enjoy) over the past week. I’m a man who plays by my own set of rules (don’t tell my wife I said that),
iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale Seventeen NBA teams. Seventeen bad, to weird, to uncertain starts. Seventeen head coaches. Sixty minutes. An unknown number of jobs in jeopardy. In the latest episode of Hardwood Knocks, Andy and Dan look at all 15 teams with records of .500 or worse, add
First-year Milwaukee Bucks general manager Jon Horst is lucky. He adopted a team that already conquered the most difficult aspect of roster building. Whether through internal development or via the open market, basketball evaluators will search all ends of the earth to find a world-class
iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale Eric Bledsoe is finally, mercifully, at long last, on the move. As first reported by ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe and Adrian Wojnarowski, the Phoenix Suns traded the exiled point guard to the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday in exchange for Greg Monroe’s expiring deal, a
How does every NBA player stack up heading into 2017-18, based solely on the level at which we expect them to play during the upcoming season? That’s the question 16 NBA Math staff members and contributors sought to answer, ranking each and every player in