Throughout their remarkable 2018-19 campaign, the Milwaukee Bucks spent plenty of time testing the capabilities of stretching the floor in ways that hadn’t been seen previously in franchise history.
Bucks head coach Mike Budenholzer provided the blueprint of a free flowing, five-out system designed to open up the necessary space for Giannis Antetokounmpo to wreak havoc, and earn MVP honors, following the coach’s arrival to Milwaukee more than a year ago.
But it was the instrumental work of veteran big man Brook Lopez that made such a thing possible as he built upon his reinvention into becoming a seven-foot shooting specialist from a couple of years ago, and in turn supercharged Milwaukee’s already high-powered offense.