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03-17-2010, 05:36 PM
Bogut at center of Bucks’ revival (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AmIWLF.TvTqxVT8WwjyOvsC8vLYF?slug=aw-bogutbucks031710&prov=yhoo&type=lgns)
By Adrian Wojnarowski
Andrew Bogut had gone through coaches and systems and teammates, leaving the Milwaukee Bucks’ lost savior confused, confounded and finding himself forever buried beneath the burden as the No 1 pick in the 2005 NBA draft. They pass judgment fast in the NBA, dismiss the chance for greatness when it doesn’t happen rapidly and there were times that the franchise center felt like a lost cause for a lost organization.
“I didn’t handle the pressure of going No. 1 very well,” Bogut said. “I was running away from it, hiding.”
All around Bogut, something changed this season. The parts started to fit together. Coach Scott Skiles had installed structure, a program of accountability. General manager John Hammond drafted him a point guard, Brandon Jennings. They kept cap space for the summer of 2011, adding hungry players who had been on the fringe of the league, bouncing between Europe and the NBDL. Milwaukee was one of the small-market franchises that felt like it was dying, like it would wither away from incompetence and indifference.
“What we have here are a bunch of guys with a chip on their shoulders, with something to prove,” Bogut said. “We’re a bunch of underdog guys, in an underdog city. Milwaukee is the butt of a lot of jokes and on TV and the movies, but we’ve got a bunch of hard-workings and that suits this city, the people here.”
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By Adrian Wojnarowski
Andrew Bogut had gone through coaches and systems and teammates, leaving the Milwaukee Bucks’ lost savior confused, confounded and finding himself forever buried beneath the burden as the No 1 pick in the 2005 NBA draft. They pass judgment fast in the NBA, dismiss the chance for greatness when it doesn’t happen rapidly and there were times that the franchise center felt like a lost cause for a lost organization.
“I didn’t handle the pressure of going No. 1 very well,” Bogut said. “I was running away from it, hiding.”
All around Bogut, something changed this season. The parts started to fit together. Coach Scott Skiles had installed structure, a program of accountability. General manager John Hammond drafted him a point guard, Brandon Jennings. They kept cap space for the summer of 2011, adding hungry players who had been on the fringe of the league, bouncing between Europe and the NBDL. Milwaukee was one of the small-market franchises that felt like it was dying, like it would wither away from incompetence and indifference.
“What we have here are a bunch of guys with a chip on their shoulders, with something to prove,” Bogut said. “We’re a bunch of underdog guys, in an underdog city. Milwaukee is the butt of a lot of jokes and on TV and the movies, but we’ve got a bunch of hard-workings and that suits this city, the people here.”
Keep Reading... (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AmIWLF.TvTqxVT8WwjyOvsC8vLYF?slug=aw-bogutbucks031710&prov=yhoo&type=lgns)
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