As a groomsman in my older brother’s wedding, I spent a large portion of Saturday standing around during the usual rigmarole that accompanies such an event. Placement of amenities, straightening of collars, etc.

Stay a step behind and you can be Larry Sanders’ friend, like Jason Thompson. (Kyle Terada-US PRESSWIRE)

After the nuptials were official, I stood to the side with my oldest sibling while we watched the groom take some final pictures with his best man. When the photographer joked about a posing them in a piggyback position, a bridesmaid furthered the sentiment by suggesting a mid-leapfrog snapshot of my brother vaulting over his 6’8” friend. They obliged.

A little backstory: my brother is 6’4” and has been since he was an underclassmen in high school. He was a starting forward for his alma mater’s basketball team and took pride in doing leg exercises while doing routine housework. The guy mastered the off-the-bounce alley-oop as a sophomore and filled a roster spot on a semi-pro squad after graduating.

So, yeah, it wasn’t too surprising that he could take a running start and boost himself off his buddy’s shoulders, going over with room to spare.

The feat is not as impressive as it once would have been, especially to basketball fans, since it shows up in some sort of iteration every year at All-Star Weekend. Impressive to the casual eye, hoopheads know there are distinct strata when it comes to jumping ability. In order to better understand* the Bucks’ athleticism and explosiveness, here’s the raw data of each player’s leaping abilities.

*This will not help anyone understand the 2012-13 Milwaukee Bucks. All of these statistics were gathered from Draft Express and are accurate as of the player’s pre-draft workout, meaning they are outdated for any player not in the 2012 draft class. Rosters are accurate according to Yahoo! Sports’ information as of Sept. 22, though cuts before the season’s start are inevitable.

For good measure, check out the following tables, which log the measurements for the Bucks’ Central Division competition.

Obviously, these stats leave much to be desired. Several players are missing vertical leap measurements for a variety of reasons: some played overseas rather than in the NCAA, some are ancient (looking at you, almost half of the Bulls) and therefore these statistics were not available, and some just flat out did not participate in that part of the draft. Once again, these figures were accurate as of the draft dates. Older players naturally lose height on their jumps; younger players could have hit the gym and gone full-Rajon Rondo on some plyometric boxes.

For the sake of fun, though, let’s make some observations:

• The Bucks are not as capable at jumping as their divisional peers, despite the deer mantra. They have the lowest no-step and maximum vertical averages out of all the teams. Brandon Jennings’ exclusion makes the numbers skew a little low, no doubt.

• On the run, only two Bucks (Luc Mbah a Moute and Tobias Harris) can out-jump Nate Robinson’s standing vertical.

• Ersan Ilyasova, he of the 22.0 inch no-step vert, should drive before his dunks in practice if he wants to keep throwing down on Samuel Dalembert.

• If Mike Dunleavy ever daydreamed about being a dunk contest champion, he needs to add some height to that 28.0 inch max vert. For this hypothetical situation, it is also important to know that Dunleavy is 32, two years older than Dominque Wilkins when he became the elder statesman of dunk champs in 1990.

• Larry Sanders owns the lowest vertical leap measurement, maxing out at 28.0 inches. No jokes here; just the truth.

On their own, these measurements are indicative of nothing. A huge vertical does not equate to being a good basketball player — something Milwaukee fans learned the hard way. Let Scott Skiles and the coaching staff drill the Bucks with fundamentals, extra passes and defensive rotations. Let Bango worry about getting air.