Hopefully the Brewers will take a lesson from the Bucks. The Bucks also stumbled from the gates to start the season, taking grand expectations and flushing them directly into the Bradley Center's locker room toilets with a 3-9 opening.
Amazing thing is, they still are.
For a moment, the wayward Charlotte Hornets seemed to threaten the Bucks' first division title since the Reagan years with a hot stretch of hoops in mid-March. Coupled with a Bucks' finishing stretch akin to Heartbreak Hill in the Boston Marathon, nervous throat clearing started to get louder on the corner of Fourth and State. A valiant loss the next night in Phoenix without Sam Cassell or Glenn Robinson was nearly as impressive, as well as providing further proof that Tim Thomas would have All-Star numbers were he among the team's top two options. The team followed the script for a change and blew out an overmatched Golden State Wednesday, and now only the coltish L.A. Clippers and George Karl's erstwhile Seattle SuperSonics remain as the Central Division title beckons. I guess it just goes to show what a little confidence and Sam Cassell can do.