Milwaukee Bucks 2017-18 Season Review: Eric Bledsoe

Following an early season trade from the Phoenix Suns, how did Eric Bledsoe perform in his first season as a member of the Milwaukee Bucks?

Rightly or wrongly, Eric Bledsoe’s first season with the Milwaukee Bucks is going to be remembered for the bizarre way it finished.

Before a playoff series that will be tough to forget for all of the wrong reasons, Bledsoe had put together an impressive regular season, though. For the first time in years, Bledsoe was in a situation where he had a chance to contribute to a non-lottery bound team and he took advantage of that — at least until it really mattered.

Arriving in Milwaukee in early November, in a deal where Greg Monroe and a future first round pick headed in the opposite direction to Phoenix, Bledsoe joined the Bucks dealing with niggling injuries and generally rusty from a lack of playing time.

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With that considered, he settled in relatively quickly and more often than not looked right at home alongside Giannis Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton.

For the regular season overall, Bledsoe averaged 17.8 points, 5.1 assists, 3.9 rebounds and 2.0 steals, while shooting 47.6 percent from the field and 34.9 percent from three-point range.

So without further ado, let’s look back on Eric Bledsoe’s first year with the Milwaukee Bucks, the best and worst of what that entailed, and what the future may hold from here