The Bucks won their 5th home game in a row by beating the Charlotte Bobcats 99-93. It was a solid overall team effort with virtually everyone who played had a meaningful contribution. They did a great job in wiping out a 9 point defecit in the 3rd quarter. The Bucks have also played some very good defense over the last 8 games, only allowing opponents to score over 90 points twice (with the Bucks going 5-3 over that span).
As much flack as TJ Ford has received about his shooting, he's doing more for this team overall than the snubbed All-Star Redd is over the last 6 games that these guys have played together with Mo Williams out, thus putting more pressure on them to perform. Here's the stats they have:
| Player | Shots (FG%) | Pts | Reb | Assists | TO |
| Ford | 34-85 (40.0%) | 13.5 | 5.3 | 7.67 | 3.5 |
| Redd | 46-127 (36.2%) | 21.2 | 3.8 | 2.0 | 2.5 |
Now, I certainly am not saying that Ford is better than Redd, but in all the hoopla over Redd not making the team, I felt this was necessary to show. Ford certainly needs some improvement to his game as he needs to shoot in the 45-47% range and the Assist/TO ratio is not as high as it should be either. His rebounding is excellent for a PG and is a bit surprising. But I'm giving the guy some slack, as he's almost missed more time than he has played in the bigs, and I for one think his game is coming along nicely, as this graphic shows.
The Badgers took Penn State behind the shed for an old fashioned whoppin' 82-62. Brian Butch finally had a dominant game for the first time, (he must have read my rant) but granted it was against a line-up of 6"6" guys. When he has a 5" height advantage and add that to an additional 4-5" reach advantage, he should dominate. The past 2 games the Badgers have kicked the snot out of teams that frankly they should have. Dr. Jekyll is currently in the house, we'll see if he's still around on Wed night when they host Ohio State.
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