Milwaukee Dec 31 3:30PM

tv: FSN

The Bucks try to improve on their 2-14 road record as they come into town to challenge the Pistons 8 game winning streak.

This is supposed to be an easy game. I hope pistons could give us a nice new year present by blowing out the bucks.

Go Pistons and happy new year to all piston fans.

Thanks Adonis!

This is an early game! Note the time!

They will most likely win. But they can win in a way that helps prepare for the playoffs, or not.

Here is the wrong way: Play the starters all 31 minutes by the end of the 3rd quarter. If its a close game, the starters all end up getting about 40 minutes and your bench gets no burn, no development time.

Also, if those starters all have 31 minutes by the end of the 3rd quarter, and the 4th is all garbage time, you still get no real development of your bench. Garbage time is not nearly as useful as minutes in the regular rotation.

So here is how it should go:

The starters play most of the 1st quarter. The starters sit out the whole 2nd quarter. With 4 minutes left in the 3rd quarter, start putting in the 2nd unit. By the end of the 3rd quarter, no starter should have played more than 27 minutes.

Now if the game is close, the starters come back in for the last 6 minutes, and end up at around 33 minutes each.

If the game is a blowout, the 2nd unit ends up getting some garbage time to compliment the time they got in the 2nd quarter.

In any case, you did not just waste another game. You did not just waste another opportunity to develop the bench. The playoffs are upon us. The time is now to develop the bench.

In sum, what is important in this game is how it leads to victories in June.

Might have this on Sirius while the Bowl games are on.

Chat's open, feel free to join in the fun.

Easy win.

Stuckey was ALOT better this game. The ball really moved this time when he was on the floor. Hermann played well. Afflalo was solid as usual.

I'm really starting to like the Stuckey/Afflalo tandem. They play off eachother well.

Great game.

AJ needs to strengthen his hands. He loses too many rebounds after he gets the rebound

Biggest blowout of the year, 114-69. It was a 13 point game after the first quarter, and never seemed to get any closer after that. Rip and CB led the way on offense, Rip 9-10 from the floor, and CB with 12 assists and no turnovers. The Bucks fumbled their chances away early with 9 turnovers in the first quarter. It was domination all the way, with garbage time being the biggest margin of any quarter, actually... 28-12 in the 4th.

Everyone played at least 7 minutes in this one, with Herrmann getting 8 near the end in his most productive minutes yet. The big news rotation-wise was that Flip went with Stuckey and AA together in the backcourt for almost the entire 2nd quarter, even playing them with the starting front line for a few minutes near the end of the half. They did a nice job and followed up the 28-15 first quarter with a 28-22 second quarter. Amir didn't get any burn until garbage time.