West Coast Trip

[MUAlphaBangura]

Great win over Denver. Most entertaining game of the trip. Lopez couldn't miss in the 3rd quarter. He finished 8-13 from beyond the arc for 28 points. Bucks overall shot 50% (17-34) from three.

Go figure, Bucks defeat 2 of the better teams in the league to finish 2-2 on the trip.

That has been and will be my worry with this team. Very dangerous game playing to the level of their competition. That tends to be a "mental fortitude" thing as opposed to a skill level thing. We will have to wait and see if these guys are prepared mentally to take the next step to an elite level team. Skill-wise I think they are ready, head-wise not so sure.

[MUfan12]

I still think roster-wise they're not there yet. I thought they needed one more shooter, but Thunder Pat has filled that role well. Teams with mobile 4/5s like Horford, Green, Millsap, Jokic will continue to give them issues. They don't have anyone that can deal with them defensively, and all the elite teams have a guy like that.

[Goose85]

That has been and will be my worry with this team. Very dangerous game playing to the level of their competition. That tends to be a "mental fortitude" thing as opposed to a skill level thing. We will have to wait and see if these guys are prepared mentally to take the next step to an elite level team. Skill-wise I think they are ready, head-wise not so sure.

Overall pretty good. Beat two of the better teams, went to overtime with the Clippers and lost on a last second hoop, and played pretty close to Portland.
All very good opponents on the road and west were we historically have difficulty.

Just need a little less of Bledsoe driving and trying to score in the last minute of the game in my opinion.