Milwaukee Bucks: Ranking Eric Bledsoe among point guards of last decade
By Ben Sewell
6. Matthew Dellavedova
Statistics – 7.3 points, 4.5 assists, 2.0 rebounds
Seasons in Milwaukee – 2016-present
How he was acquired – Sign and trade, 2016
Matthew Dellavedova was brought to Milwaukee in the summer of 2016 to provide leadership, three-point shooting and hustle defense. To date, he has not been quite able to live up to the expectations that his $40 million contract demands, however.
Shooting at 36.4 percent from deep on almost 2.7 attempts per game is solid and has certainly added to Milwaukee’s recent resurgence in three-point shooting.
However Dellavedova has often looked lost on defense, and still gets caught on pick-and-rolls and traps on a nightly basis. From all reports, he is an excellent teammate and trains as hard as anyone in practice sessions, but Dellavedova has yet to translate that to on-court success which has often found him in trade rumors over the past few months.
Most troubling for Dellavedova, however, is the fact that the acquisition of Bledsoe pushes him down to third choice point guard. Initially brought to Milwaukee to start as the team’s only veteran point guard, he has now slipped down to a point where his spot on the rotation is under severe threat.
It will take a big push from Dellavedova this season to prove to both Milwaukee and the rest of the league that he is in fact an NBA rotation player heading forward.