Milwaukee Bucks: Playoff Impact On Milwaukee’s Free Agents

Spencer Hawes

Unlike Greg Monroe, Spencer Hawes did not have a steady role in the 2017 NBA Playoffs. Jason Kidd only used Hawes for 17 total minutes, with all of those minutes coming in the first three games of the series.

Still, even in those spot minutes Hawes had a chance to showcase his best attribute. Hawes attempted two threes and made one of them in his spot minutes. The one advantage Hawes has over many other more traditional centers like Monroe is that he can shoot.

Shooting 50 percent from deep might be impressive to other teams, if the sample size were larger than two attempts. As nice as it was for Hawes to show teams that he can shoot, the fact that he didn’t get many minutes and that John Henson ended up grabbing those third center minutes speak to Hawes’ ability too, in a negative sense.

As effective as Hawes can be from deep and on the glass, he’s not a very capable defender, which is probably putting it mildly. Hawes is too slow to recover well if he’s matched up against a smaller player, and he doesn’t move much on defense.

Those deficiencies robbed Hawes of meaningful playing time in the playoffs, and the smart move for him might be to opt in to that last year of his deal and make guaranteed money before testing free agency again.