The Weakest Link

While the 2006-07 Milwaukee Bucks season has been pretty unbearable to watch, I thought I would state my case for why the biggest staple of the organization over the last decade has let us down and should be removed. You all are thinking I am going to talk about good old Senator Herb Kohl, the owner of the team, but instead I am talking about the spouse of the national anthem specialist for the Bucks big games, Tim Wilson.

Tim Wilson, the Milwaukee Bucks strength and conditioning coach, has done a terrible job of preparing the team’s players for being physically able to play throughout this NBA season. According to the Milwaukee Bucks website, the injury report shows that ten (10) players have had to sit out at least one game this season and in total these ten (10) players have missed 162 games. That means each player who has been on the injured list is missing on average 16 games, which as of March 23, 2007 has missed 25% of the games played.

If you look closely at the numbers, you see that the biggest contributor to the injury report is Bobby Simmons who has missed every game this season. Even without Simmons games missed, each player on the injury report has missed approximately 11 games, or 16% of the games played this season. In the end, what value does Tim Wilson think he provides as the strength and conditioning coach. He obviously can not either motivate the players to complete a solid strength training program or his conditioning program is not addressing the immediate concerns of these basketball players in the style of the NBA game.

How can any NBA coach, especially the ones the Bucks have hired in the past five years, put an effective game plan into affect to attempt to win games or at least finish above .500. Therefore, I nominate Tim Clavette to become the Milwaukee Bucks new strength and conditioning coach. So Tim, what do you say?