The Bratwurst - Milwaukee Bucks Blog

Normally I would wait until morning to comment on a game. You know, get my thoughts in order, wait until Popcorn Machine has their game flow up, try to think of something interesting to say … but not tonight.

It’s pointless to wait because this game had over 40 minutes of garbage time. It was over when the game was 11-4 just 5 1/2 minutes in. I wrote a box score for the first 5 minutes of the game and I’m not going to even bother putting it online. Suffice it to say that the difference in the game to that point was Caron Butler scoring on Simmons at will and DeShawn Stevenson grabbing rebounds over Bell.

But there was one positive:

Krystkowiak used a Villanueva/Yi/Ruffin frontcourt for most of the 4th quarter.

Now you are thinking! Go big! Create mismatches!

How many times can I say it — without Mason (and now without Redd) available you need to use Simmons, Bell and Ivey but you can’t win if you go long stretches with two of them on the court at the same time! You have to use your best players — and even without Redd, you still had four of them available!

I’m done for tonight.