What about the players?

It was pretty easy to predict that coach K was going to be fired. What intrigues me more is what Hammonds will do to the roster. I think it's obvious that a big shakeup is coming. So who goes?

Will they trade Redd in a blockbuster? How about Mo Williams or Charlie V? Do they try to hold on their young stars like Bogut or Yi, or do they have a fire sale and start over? Is there anything they can do to get rid of Simmons or Gadzuric? Who should they pick up?

I think there will be a big trade involving one of their starting guards, but I dunno. What do youall think?

hardness out, but not until he had taken bill cartwrights debacle and made the Bulls into an entertaining

and TOUGH ball club.

He can do it, for a couple of years, for the Bucks. And, if he has players who buy into it, rather than

some of the whiners in chicago (i.e. see backcourt) then he may go on to lead the Bucks into the playoffs.

Who knows. The bucks have a plethora (well maybe not plethora) but more than a few really find players,

they need stability and toughness at the guards and forwards. Perhaps getting rid of Michael (I never met a shot

I coud not convert) Redd, perhaps to a team like Miami that needs scoring or even the Memphis Grizz where his

run and gun style might go (though Michael Heisley, blew up the team by "trading" P. Gasol for virtually nothing, cept the

rights to his brother...which MIGHT pan out.......because Heisley is sick of losing money...which would not have been

the case had he stayed in Vancouver, but that is another story).......either way, the bucks KNOW they can't win with the

shoot first play defense, maybe , later attitude signified by the M. Redd era.

they have to get tough or else......face the plank and, eventually, maybe lose the bucks to seattle, where another

storied franchise is on the move as I write.

Either way, GO BUCKS. I lived in Milwaukee when they had Larry Costello and a "new" guy named kareem showed up

on the roster. My best buddy's brother said, hey.......with Lew Alcindor and this new guy Kareem, we will be really

something........and they were, even with only 1 Kareem along with Oscar and Bobby D.

The old days for sure. But they started with Defense, something the somber Costello knew something about.

Same with Skiles. And toughness. Never can underestimate it. Look at the last champions of the NBA and what have they

ALL had? From detroit, to San Antonio, to the Lakers and Houston under Hakim..........toughness. Even Miami, too, of course

with Shaq and Wade. But it STARTS from the top.

In my view, there are only two players that shouldn't be shipped out in one way or another.  Yi is too young and has too much of an upside to move this early.  Bogut is a solid and improving player and can be a great presence on the inside.  He's never going to dominate like Shaq, but he's more versitile.  More importantly, Andrew Bogut has the right attitude.

Other than those two guys, nobody on this roster should feel safe.  Micheal Redd is a prolific scorer, but that's all he does.  He's more valuable as trade bait.  Mo Williams is overpaid, and the rest of the team doesn't even deserve mention (with the possible exception of Ramon Sessions).

Keep Yi and Bogut....... the rest of the team can and should be built from the ground up!