Carlos Delfino back with the Bucks

FoOLiSh_AzN · Jul 8, 2013

its official now,...it was good having him back parsons/harden last season. good luck carlos

FoOLiSh_AzN · Jul 8, 2013

sorry forgot the link

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/9457614/milwaukee-bucks-agree-terms-carlos-delfino-sources-say

Panda23 · Jul 8, 2013

sighhhhh. Gonna miss that goofy man

dachuda86 · Jul 8, 2013

BNNOoooooooooooooooo

amazingskills · Jul 8, 2013

good news, can we get him back now in a trade with bucks?

Vienna Calling · Jul 8, 2013

$ 3.25 million per year & team option for the third year, good value for the Bucks IMO.

Wapzoe · Jul 8, 2013

amazingskills said: ↑

good news, can we get him back now in a trade with bucks?
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I'd hold off for this season. . His body (elbow) seemed to be breaking down late in the season. Need to see if he has recovered

We don't need injuries when we are competing for a deep playoff run

GIGO · Jul 8, 2013

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I loved how Delfino played last year, he was a starter on the "All-Annoying-As-Hell" team (a good thing, drives opponents' fas nuts)</p>— Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) <a href="https://twitter.com/HPbasketball/statuses/354035483203993601">July 8, 2013</a></blockquote>
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on the other hand,

MILWAUKEE STAYS THE CONFOUNDING COURSE
7 July, 2013 · by Jack Winter · in 2013 NBA Free Agency

The Bucks had a chance.

Milwaukee reportedly offered Monta Ellis a three-year, $36 million contract in early June, a month before the madness of free agency officially kicked off. Ellis immediately declined the deal and opted against exercising the player option on the final season of his existing contract, making him a free agent.

That chain of events was a loss for Milwaukee on the surface. The Bucks acquired Ellis in March of last year with the longterm in mind; though the team’s 2013 season could only be considered a minor success, that he was offered such a lucrative deal once it ended made that much clear. Whether that was the right approach is another thing entirely.

Ellis, the entire league should know by now, isn’t worth a contract that rich. Perhaps not half of it. But the Bucks got away with their big mistake regardless, and Ellis’ hubris is now getting the nemesis it deserves on the open market.

So Milwaukee lost out on Ellis but won in the end. Addition by subtraction on every level. Then yesterday happened, and the Bucks took the flexibility luckily afforded them by Ellis’ mistake to dip into the free agent market.

Milwaukee agreed to terms with OJ Mayo and Zaza Pachulia to deals that total $40 million over three seasons.

These aren’t horrible moves in the NBA vacuum. Both Mayo and Pachulia have proven their worth as role players for playoff teams in the past, and they’re precisely the kind of guys that are routinely overpaid. Mayo’s age, physical profile and ’3 and D’ potential would entice any team, and size and smarts like Pachulia’s always come with a price mark-up. To be sure, these contract numbers are high but not outrageously so.

For the right team, that is. The Bucks aren’t.

Mediocrity has been the game of Milwaukee basketball for years. They’ve won between 34 and 46 games every season since 2009, and even that low high-water mark in 2010 – with a far different roster, it should be noted – was an outlier; the Bucks’ win percentage has been between .415 and .470 in the campaigns surrounding it.

Milwaukee was forced to trade JJ Redick, lost Mike Dunleavy to the Bulls and ‘missed out’ on Ellis, leaving a gaping hole in its backcourt. That vacancy had to be filled. Fine. But opting to do so with Mayo for the reported terms gets the Bucks near a dangerous place they would have been with Ellis. An erratic, shot-happy player like Mayo needs reigns and structure, things he won’t get as a focal point of the Milwaukee offense. He’s more efficient, better defensively and cheaper than Ellis, but still nothing more than a bench spark-plug on a great team.

The acquisition of Mayo is yet another thing that assures that’s something the Bucks won’t be anytime soon. But at least his addition deserves scrutiny, because the same can’t be said for that of Pachulia.

Even without free agent Samuel Dalembert, Milwaukee boasts one of the deepest frontcourts in the league. Larry Sanders is foundational, Gustavo Ayon useful, Ekpe Udoh growing, John Henson the team’s most recent lottery pick and Drew Gooden a salary cap albatross. That quintet is promising despite its limitations, and each player is good enough to garner a place in the rotation. They’re also due approximately $17.7 million next season and sometimes lose minutes when the Bucks play small with Ersan Ilyasova or Luc Richard Mbah Moute at power forward.

It’s already far too much, basically, and now Milwaukee will be paying Pachulia somewhere in the arena of $5 million next season to fight in that scrum for minutes off the bench. Remember, too, that Sanders’ rapid improvement means he’s sure to play more than 27 minutes per game in 2014. The same can be said for Henson.

Remember the finally solved post logjam in Utah? That’s what Milwaukee has now, except it’s more crowded, less talented and full of redundancies. Yikes.

And, of course, it all comes back to Ellis. These reported agreements with Mayo and Pachulia would make far more sense if the Bucks thought they were challenging for a high seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs next season. If Ellis had agreed to terms, Brandon Jennings was re-signed and this above-average wedding band was brought back for another run, that’s the approach these acquisitions would signal. It’d be one that’s wrong and ultimately debilitating, but at least there’d be an effort toward progress. As it is, Milwaukee is running in quicksand.

Ellis’ blunder gave the Bucks a chance to start fresh. They avoided another cap burden and scrapped the always-vexing idea of a Jennings-Ellis backcourt tandem. They could have hit quick restart, swapped useful players to contending teams for assets, come as close to bottoming out as Jennings and Sanders would allow and come away with a future stud from the 2014 draft class.

Instead, Milwaukee elected to stay its routine course of mediocrity. The reasons why are anyone’s guess, but to expect anything different at this point is setting yourself up for disappointment.

Or, if you’re the Bucks, just another first round sweep.

http://www.hardwoodparoxysm.com/2013/07/07/milwaukee-stays-the-confounding-course/
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Jontro · Jul 8, 2013

Good bang for the buck.

Da Wink · Jul 8, 2013

nice..i thought he's goin to the thunder..haha

amazingskills · Jul 8, 2013

is it possible /allowed for us to reacquire him now through a trade with the bucks?

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