In the latest edition of our staff roundtable series, we reflect on the Snell trade, highlights of the Milwaukee Bucks’ preseason campaign and make some bold predictions for the season ahead.
We made it. The long and treacherous off-season is over and the start of the 2016-17 NBA season is just hours away. It’s time to get excited as the Milwaukee Bucks kick-off their campaign on Wednesday night at home against the Charlotte Hornets (7PM Central).
But before Giannis and Jabari hit the court, there’s no better way to celebrate the start of the new season than getting the team at Behind The Buck Pass together to discuss Milwaukee Bucks basketball and make their boldest predictions for the year ahead.
So that’s exactly what we did. This week I was lucky enough to be joined by site expert Adam McGee and staff writers Lukas Harkins, Rohan Katti, Tom Pheister and Jordan Treske for the seventh instalment of ‘The Buck Stops Here’ roundtable.
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Specifically, we shared our thoughts on the trade that sent Michael Carter-Williams to the Chicago Bulls in exchange for Tony Snell and whether we believed Milwaukee won the trade, or just wanted to move on from the 2013-14 Rookie of the Year.
The focus then shifted to the Bucks 2016-17 Pre-Season, where we highlighted some of the more prevalent positives and negatives that each of us took away from the six game campaign.
Subsequently, we began firing out predictions about the upcoming season, starting with players who we expect to become surprise contributors for Milwaukee this year. Following up from the previous roundtable, we then gave our definitive win/loss record predictions and assessed the Bucks’ chances of making the playoffs.
To finish, we each make our boldest Bucks prediction for the season ahead. Warning, takes may be hot.
Read on to hear all of our answers!
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