You would like to think they could resume that pattern, and Karl would like to think so, too. But he's just happy, not delirious. We'll have to wait until next year before we know that. He recalled telling Terry Stotts that he had to be kidding when his assistant told him in September that this team could win the division. The Bucks didn't appear to be taking things too seriously, either, until the coach rolled the dice and ripped them in every media outlet from church bulletins to Pravda.
Communications are better now, but there's still plenty left to be said.
Appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on April 13, 2001. Journal Sentinel Inc. All rights reserved.