[daintrain28]

Is it my imagination or is this team slowly getting better? I'm beginning to think another year or two of Hammond and Skiles could be something special in Milwaukee.

Your thoughts?

[TigerWoods]

[Army Packerbacker]

Paul Pressey...haven't heard that name in a long time. I remember a guy who could practically touch his toes while standing erect.

[Army Packerbacker]

...and don't forget Craig Hodges! Or Junior Bridgeman! Or Paul Mokeski!

[FavreisGOD]

The Bucks could possibly squeak in as one of the lower seeded teams in the east. There is a log jam there and the Bucks play a pretty favorable schedule. However, I'm not expecting too much from them until the Redd and Gadzuric contracts come off the books. 2011 should be a good year for them. Hammond knows what he's doing.

[TigerWoods]

[daintrain28]

[Lord Football]

I didn't even know Milwaukee had a NBA team. Crazy

[daintrain28]

Milwaukee only four games under .500, to me, that is flat out amazing! Brandon Jennings is a damn stud.

Love to see if they can address PF, and maybe move Michael Redd and grab a different SG who can actually play defense.

[FavreisGOD]

[Army Packerbacker]

Just when you think the Bucks are capable of doing something, they go and lay an egg against a team like Detroit that is not very good to begin with, but even worse when on the road. How do they play that poorly against a weaker opponent when they are trying to make a push for playoff contention?

Playoffs? Yeah, right. They're just good enough to piss you off.

[Carl Gerbschmidt]

I feel for buck fans, the wolves are just as bad.

[itsoez]

I was a big Bucks head growing up, mainly in the '80s. Had the Sir Sid poster on my door, all those guys you named earlier in the thread....forgot Alton Lister, Ricky Pierce and Terry Cummings. T.C. ruled. Pierce was a defensive ace and two-time Sixth Man Award winner. Even Moses Malone came on for a few productive seasons. Interestingly, we got Cummings, Hodges and Pierce from the Clippers for Bridgeman, Marques Johnson and Harvey Catchings in an '84 trade. We definitely got the better end of that one. We trade a couple aging players and a guy named Catchings for three guys just beginning stellar careers. The Clippers curse.

Like you, I always viewed Hodges as a premier 3-point threat, but looking at his rankings they are pretty pedestrian. His career percentage mark of .399 ranks him 30th, and 3-pointers made of 563 puts him at 148th on the all time list. Hell, Mike Miller, that white kid out of Florida is at 34th with 1208.

It's hard for me to get into the NBA like I used to. There were so many great players back in the '70s and '80s. When Jordan, Bird, and Magic left it became a different landscape. Can't forget Olajuwan or Clyde the Glide. Now it is all about bling and thuggery. The only players I really like these days are Chris Paul, Steve Nash and Nowitski. Dude is a freak. Love Ray Allen, last of a dying breed. No more Tim Hardaway, Chris Mullin or Reggie Miller.

[daintrain28]

I was a Jack Sikma fan myself. Never seen a C be able to shoot the 3 pointer since then. Truthfully, he was probably playing outta position at C. More of a F.

[TigerWoods]

I loved Moncrief and Marques Johnson.
I was a great basketball player myself as a teen, went to Kevin McHale's Basketball Camp in about 1982-83, and remember asking the big Frankestein a question in front of the whole camp:
I asked him who was better, Marques or Larry Bird.

I recall him basically not choosing.... Marques was great. But of course after that, Bird rose to Legend and the Bucks never could get past both the Celtics and Sixers in a playoff.