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Milwaukee Bucks: Is Tough Early Season Schedule Too Much?

 
Too bad, so sad for the Milwaukee Bucks.  Michael Redd still isn't ready to play.  Richard Jefferson is holding down the fort as best as he can.  They're not grasping the concept of defense yet.  And the Bucks have to play on back-to-back nights at least eight times before year's end. But there's an upside to this fiasco.  Tomorrow, they host the San Antonio Spurs.  Now is the time to kick the Spurs while they're down.  They have only won one game.  Tony Parker, after scoring 55 points last week, is down for a while.  And so is Manu Ginobili.  But there's still Tim Duncan and Michael Finley. I can understand why center Andrew Bogut accepted being benched in Boston, and didn't not playing much in that game.  Charlie Villanueva was benched too.  Coach Scott Skiles will play whoever knows how to play defense at the NBA level. If Moses Malone was on the current Buck team, he would've slapped Bogut upside the head for a lack of ... (link)

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