The average annual salary of 25+7 per game is 45.64 million! The Bucks lost 5 for 1?
Since the start of the new NBA season, the league's teams have played about 30 games, and now the league pattern is gradually becoming clear, with the strength to compete for the championship is the Bucks, the Green Army, the Nuggets and the Clippers, the Lakers, Warriors, 76ers are playoff-level teams, the Spurs, Pistons and Wizards have now begun to mess up, and there are some teams that are not strong, but they are going all out to attack the play-off places.
In this offseason, the Green Army's trade can be said to be very successful, they sent Smart in exchange for Porzingis, sent Lowe, Brogdon to get Holiday , through a series of operations, they formed the league's most luxurious starting lineup, so it also made the team the favorite to win the championship, the previous Green Army lacked a point guard, so they often made mistakes at critical moments, and their interior killing ability is limited, now these problems are completely solved, and the ceiling of the Green Army this season is also worth looking forward to.
And the Green Army wants to kill the East is not necessarily nine out of ten, because the Bucks on the East side are not worse than them, if it is the Bucks last season, it may not be as good as the current Green Army, but the current Bucks are different, since the trade got Lillard, they have made a transformation, in fact, after the completion of this deal, many fans are still not optimistic, including now some fans think that this deal is not profitable.
In order to get Lillard, the Bucks sent Holiday and Grayson Allen, 1 first-round pick, and 2 first-round swap picks to get Lillard through a three-way trade.
Because of Lillard's arrival caused the Bucks' defensive system to collapse, the Bucks were the best defensive team in the league during Holiday was on the team, and their defense has always been among the top in the league, and last season Holiday and Da Lo and Alphabet were all selected to the best defensive team, but this season since the arrival of Lillard and Beasley, the Bucks' outside defense has completely collapsed, and they are now 115.5 defensive efficiency and 20th in the league.
Because Lillard's defense is not good, this also leads to Da Luo can't squat to defend, the previous Holiday broke the cover ability, and was strong enough, he was called Leonard in the No. 1 position, Da Luo can rest assured in the inside squatting pit, now no, Lillard is too thin, and his own defensive ability is also limited, which also caused Da Luo to be pulled out of the list to play, resulting in Da Luo becoming a premium contract, and now the team does not dare to reuse him.
Coupled with the fact that Middleton couldn't get back his touch at the beginning of the season, this also led to the Bucks' record being unstable, if it weren't for the letter enough, their record would be very poor, because they lost to the Pacers in the midseason, which also led to the team's locker room conflict, but after this conflict, the team was better, this locker room conflict Portis pointed out the team's problems, they relied too much on singles and lacked team cooperation, Griffin also admitted the problem, and the team changed the style of play after that, playing more team cooperation.
In the past, Lillard couldn't fit into the system, so Griffin asked the team to play more singles and let the stars solve the problem, but this is not a long-term solution after all. After the locker room conflict, Lillard and Antetokounmpo have obviously worked together more, as long as one of the two plays well, the other is willing to actively sacrifice statistics, and role players such as Portis are better integrated into the team system, and Middleton has also recovered after getting the ball.
Although the team's defense is not good, but the Bucks have played the league's top offense, they rely on excellent offense to play against each other, they also make up for the lack of defense, and the team can rely on stars to solve the battle at critical moments, the Bucks have been 2nd in the league in offensive efficiency of 121.2 and 2nd in the league in points per game of 125.2 so far this season, which is very good.
Lillard has averaged 25.7 points, 4.5 rebounds, 7 assists and 1 steal per game so far this season, shooting 43.5% from the field and 37.5% from three-point range.
Lillard's annual salary this season is 45.64 million, which shows how great his ability is, Lillard was once considered the top point guard in the league last season after Curry and Doncic, and maybe now Alexander has surpassed him, but he is still the strongest in the East, at least in terms of ability at critical moments, he is among the strongest point guards in the East, and the Bucks traded him to be honest because of his scoring ability.
In the past, the team's defense was indeed strong during the teaming up of Holiday and Middleton, but there was a lack of players who could score at critical moments, and Holiday did not have this ability, and neither did Alphabet and Middleton. But that's what Lillard did, and his arrival solved the Bucks' biggest problem and raised the team's ceiling, so the deal was a win no matter how you look at it.
Speaking of which, what do you have to say about the current Bucks and Lillard?