In surveying the NBA landscape in the wake of last week’s James Harden trade to the Brooklyn Nets, there appeared to be two Bucks-specific narratives emerging: Either you thought the Bucks actually matched up well against Kyrie Irving, Harden, and Kevin Durant defensively, or your skepticism of Milwaukee’s odds of advancing out of the East grew when you combined recent (bad) history with the emergence of a true super team.
As ever, I’m far too basketball dumb to run the theoretical numbers and matchups in my mind to come to a firm conclusion on either point.