Milwaukee Bucks: Reflecting on the false dawn under Joe Prunty

After Jason Kidd was fired, the Milwaukee Bucks went on a win streak and everything seemed to look up. Until it didn’t once again, and it became clear that Joe Prunty wasn’t the savior.

For the first week after Jason Kidd was fired, the Milwaukee Bucks had the third best offensive rating in the entire NBA and the fourth best defensive rating. That’s a lesson in sample size.

This short stint covered a four-game winning streak, which included a win against a Joel Embiid-less Sixers team. That winning streak is tied for the longest of the season. Unsurprisingly that week-long stretch saw many Bucks fans, both casual and die-hard, start singing a different song. Something to the tune of “Joe…