It’s easy to feel frustration with certain aspects of this team’s offensive and defensive schemes. The Bucks are currently number 3 in offensive PPG at 120.9 and number 23 defensively at 117.8 PPG.

If you’re feeling frustrated or think we should be playing better basketball, I understand your sentiment. But it’s important you keep in a mind a brand new coach, a brand new star, a recovering Middleton and changes to our schemes means we are not going to be the same team in 6 months.

We are 13-5 and it’s pretty obvious we are still shaking the rust off. Dame is still learning his place and finding his comfortability. Griffin is learning how to be a head coach and managing expectations, while trying to properly manage superstars.

Here are a couple changes that have already occured since the season started:

We have already adjusted our defensive scheme and put Brook back into a drop coverage.

The rotations have changed and Dame now plays the entire 1st quarter, helping him find a better flow.

Give it time, in a lot of ways, this is a brand new team and 18 games is way too few to jump to conclusions.

And yes a defensive minded wing would be lovely.