With three lottery trips in three seasons, the Bucks have started the 2017-18 season with a promising 14-13 record. However, Bucks fans are expecting more. Can this Milwaukee team make the playoffs and advance far? That was the first question asked to the new General Manager:
While the Bucks are considered to be a two-player team, coach Witmann will need to make the most out of the roster. However, according to sources close to the Front Office one thing is for certain: this is not a situation where a new General Manager comes and changes everything. The plan is to evaluate what the team has, what it lacks and how it can be improved. So at first glance it seems both LeBron James and Greg Monroe are the building blocks of the team, and every decision is made will orbit around them.mgtr81 wrote:I do not have an answer ... yet. We will need a month of games to properly evaluate this roster. Where we are and what we can actually do, that is something we do not know at this moment in time. We still have to meet with all players, but we have told head coach Randy Wittman that we are here to win. Not sure if we can do it right away or will have to wait until the offseason, since the time we need to accurately assess our needs may coincide with the trade deadline.
Wittman may actually be the key for this team.
The first decision coming from the Front Office was claiming free agents Jordan Bachinsky and Josh Richardson. That could hint at the new direction the Bucks may go on the court. As someone reportedly said in the Front Office first meeting with the coaching staff, the lack of a shotblocker needed to be addressed immeadiately. The other issue to be solved is Monroe's potential contract extension, but the Front Office is still looking at all the details of the CSL CBA.
The Bucks will play their first game of this new era at home vs the Philadelphia 76ers, on December 26th. We may then see the first look of the new Bucks.
