There is plenty to mourn about the half-unsurprising sudden close to the Milwaukee Bucks 2023-2024 season, but if there is one thing that stands above the rest for me it is the fact of how little we truly learned about this team.
We, of course, learned during the regular season that a dynamic backcourt pairing of Damian Lillard and Malik Beasley is the equivalent of morphing every opposing guard into an All-World talent. We learned that Khris Middleton continues to be banged up and unavailable for long stretches of time. We saw once again that Bobby Portis gives and takes in equal measure, and sometimes in painfully unequal measure as well.