Notes of a Defeatist

The Milwaukee Bucks finally got around to firing head coach Terry Stotts only to turn around and make an equally poor choice in promoting assistant coach and former Buck Larry “Who?”Krystkowiak to the big chair.

“In making the change, the Bucks most likely became the first team in league history to fire its coach and make no one from the organization available to explain to the media and fans where the franchise was headed.

Of course, this was the same organization that called a news conference to announce that Porter would be retained, only to fire him a couple of months later.” (jsonline.com)

In Stotts’s first season the Bucks lucked their way into a playoff spot while clawing their way to slightly above the .500 mark. This season the Bucks have clinched last place in the Central Division with a 23-41 record and with 18 more games left will only tighten their grasp of the Central Division’s cellar.

The Bucks this season have been plagued by injury, an apparent dedication to blowing large leads, and forgetting to show up in the fourth quarter.

Blaming Stotts is easy. Laughing at the easy fix of placing Krystkowiak in the big shoes doesn’t begin to address the issues with the Bucks personnel. Bogut, Redd, Williams, and well, let’s face it everyone on the team fail to step up in clutch situations. When in three out of any four games a team blows the lead and rolls over in the fourth quarter most head offices would start reconsidering what they have out on the court.

In the last off-season the franchise decieded along with a few trades to change the teams color. How about this off season we just forgo the incidentals and overhaul the roster instead, not just hoping to add another role-player or hopeful lottery pick?

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