3 players the Milwaukee Bucks should avoid acquiring at the trade deadline

Players the Milwaukee Bucks should avoid acquiring at the deadline – #2: Chris Boucher

This isn’t a widely spread rumor or anything, but I’ve seen fake trades involving Chris Boucher going to the Bucks, and I just… I don’t want it. Please, Jon Horst, no.

Perhaps I’m being unreasonably harsh towards Boucher, who has been fine this season, but similarly to Theis, for the cost that it would take to get him (he’s making around $7 million this season), I’m on the side of “no, thank you.”

Again, the Bucks could use a big man as insurance if Lopez either doesn’t return at all or isn’t himself when he does return, but it shouldn’t be Boucher.

Having watched more Boucher than most Bucks fans, it’s almost maddening watching him jack up 3 after 3 while converting on around 28 percent of them and I wouldn’t want to wish that on the rest of you. He had a solid season last year for the Toronto Raptors, where he shot over 38 percent on nearly four attempts a game and blocked nearly two shots a game, but that hasn’t been who he is this season.

The one compliment that I can give him this season is that he’s still one of Nick Nurse’s very few trusted options off the bench this season and he’s still a threat protecting the rim at over a block per game.

Other than that, though, it would be a big mistake to give up the required assets that would be needed to get Boucher’s salary to fit and he hasn’t even played that well.

Also, he’s an unrestricted free agent after the season. I don’t mind the Bucks adding a rental, but it better be someone better than Boucher.