The Milwaukee Bucks Should Tank the Season

I started a group on facebook to rally like-minded folks to my cause. Following are some rants of mine on the subject. Consider this a continuing blog.

3/15
Firing Terry Stotts is a step in the wrong direction. The Bucks will be hard pressed to find another coach as adept at losing as Stotts, notorious for encouraging reckless activities such as riding motorcycles without helmets, snowboarding during the season, and bathing with toasters. There is a very real possibility the Bucks will rally around this new coach, Krystkowiak (having a Coach K alone sounds impressive), and play inspired ball.

The Bucks should re-hire Stotts forthwith and retain his services until the end of the season. I fear the organization is steering this squad toward meaningless late-season victories. Then again, signing an in-house man was pretty ingenious; it's like hiring coordinators from the Bill Walsh system in football, except the exact opposite.

Later that night, the Bucks went on to defeat the San Antonio Spurs (47-20).

3/17:
Tonight the Bucks have a critical home game against the Charlotte Bobcats in a matchup between bottom-dwellers. The Bobcats currently hold a 0.5 game advantage over the third spot in the lottery. A timely defeat tonight would usher the Bucks closer to the Oden/Durant holy grail.

This is clearly a must-lose game for the Bucks if they are to entertain serious hopes for a #1 or #2 pick in the draft.

May the luck o' the Irish be on their side, and let us all say a prayer (or limerick) that the new coach smell that has the Bucks playing like roses will have worn off by tipoff.

Go BOBCATS!

Later that night the Bucks defeated their rivals 97-91. A two-game winning streak. Great. Desperate times call for desperate measures. (I just made that up.) On orders from General Manager Larris Harris, Coach K takes matters into his own hands to ensure "victory".

3/22:
MILWAUKEE--The Milwaukee Bucks were defeated Wednesday night 104-103 by the L.A. Clippers on a last second buzzer beater. Outscoring the Clippers 32-14 in the fourth quarter, the Bucks slyly slipped on the veil of a comeback with its furious late-game surge prior to calling off the horses just in the nick of time.

"We did a great job coming back," said Bucks All Star snub and star shooting guard, Michael Redd, oddly grinning despite the thematic heartbreaker. "But you've got to look at the first three quarters," he added, winking.

Milwaukee (25-42) has a three-day respite before playing three days out of four--at home against Detroit, and then on the road against Western Conference powerhouses Houston and Dallas.

Bucks officials also announced Wednesday center Andrew Bogut and forward Charlie Villanueva will miss the remainder of the season due to injuries.

Bogut was last seen clutching a toaster in the locker room. G.M Larry Harris has refused comment.