Milwaukee Bucks Best and Worst: November 13 – December 6

Worst: …And the Bucks Get Down

This is the flipside of one of our bests above and invokes a question the rest of the NBA populous and Bucks fans likely have watching the team’s’ performances against the Raptors, Warriors, and Cavaliers – why can’t they play like this all the time?

Obviously we don’t know the answer, but we can point to a definite trend of the team tending to play either up or down to its competition. It seems inconceivable that the same team who fell by a margin of 23 points to the 7-13 Miami Heat could turn around literally two days later and come within a hair of defeating the mighty Golden State Warriors for the second straight year, but that’s exactly what happened.

The same Bucks team that handed LeBron James and company an embarrassing 17-point loss also gave the Dallas Mavericks and New Orleans Pelicans their first wins of the season just weeks apart.

Just like “getting up”, the Bucks’ collective youth is likely to blame here – it’s easy to overlook an opponent when you don’t have the veteran presence necessary to keep you on track.