Milwaukee Bucks 2017-18 Season Review: Tony Snell
After signing a four-year, $44 million deal to return to the Milwaukee Bucks last season, Tony Snell‘s second season in the Cream City was marred by inconsistency and periodic role changes by the end of the year.
Turning out a career season in his first year with the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2016-17 season, retaining Tony Snell became the highest offseason priority for the team heading into last offseason.
With little flexibility to do much of anything else in the summer, Snell’s surprising campaign turned the heads of all Bucks fans, especially at the price they acquired him for as they sent the much maligned Michael Carter-Williams in a straight up swap before the start of last year.
Fears of the Bucks being outbid for Snell’s services were alleviated once they signed the 26-year-old to a four-year, $44 million deal once the clock turned midnight on the east coast back on July 1 of 2017.
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The summer break didn’t prove to slow down Snell as he carried over his hot shooting in the final few months from the prior year into the start of this season.
As the season wore on, however, Snell’s fortunes slowly began to turn. While injury initially slowed him down for a brief stretch in mid-December, Snell lost his place in the team’s starting lineup under then-head coach Jason Kidd in the middle of January.
That move started a spiral where Snell’s confidence in the role he had become weaponized in waned from that point on in the season.
While the California native was able to recapture the flashes of his former self on given nights in what remained in the year, Snell resembled the player he was when he arrived in Milwaukee a year-and-a-half earlier, culminating in the largely forgettable performances he produced in the postseason.
So without further ado, let’s delve deeper into Tony Snell’s 2017-18 season, both the good and the bad, and examine where he can possibly go from here with the Bucks.