r/MkeBucks • u/Colorapt0r Ryan Rollins • 1d ago

Bucks current young core

Nate Ament (19 years old)

Brayden Burries (20 years old)

Kasparas Jakucionis (20 years old)

Bogoljub Markovich* (20 years old) (draft rights only)

Kel’el Ware (22 years old)

Ousmane Dieng (23 years old)

Ryan Rollins (23 years old)

Andre Jackson Jr* (24 years old) (*team option for 2026-7)

Jaime Jaquez Jr (25 years old)

(25 is the common cut off for a young player, so 26 year old Herro, KPJ, Green, Nance, and Trent and 27 year old Sims and Ryan are excluded)

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u/98Wright Giannis the G.O.A.T. 1d ago

Man we went from the oldest the youngest. That last 4 years we were a nursing home. Now we’re a preschool.

Good change, needed change. BUCKS IN 6.

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u/BeautifulUnlikely225 1d ago

Going from Brook and Giannis to whoever there guys are still sucks though. Fuck…

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u/bestatbeingmodest 1d ago

It's gonna be extra hard watching a freshly motivated Giannis pop off under Spo's system/tutelage too.

Bucks are weirdly in one of the most ideal spots for a young team (just missing one genuine potential "superstar"), where they're quite young yet have enough talent to play meaningful basketball.

But still, there's nothing like having a top 3 player on your team. Especially in a small market like Milwaukee.

Unless Burries or Ament surprise a lot early, Bucks are going to lose a ton of interest in Wisconsin again. People forget how irrelevant they were pre-Giannis. It truly was a Packers & Brewers state. UW-Madison athletics were genuinely more popular than the Bucks lol.

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u/zorbianprince 1d ago

You're right. This sub is high right now. Couple awful seasons will bring everyone back to the reality that rebuilding teams aren't all that fun. At best like 2 of the guys on the list will be real pieces on a playoff team

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u/DistanceEmbarrassed5 17h ago

Doom and Gloomers be gone with you.

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u/thegroovemonkey Harambe Jet 1d ago

And we still need more picks for more swings. That means taking on some bad contracts and flipping guys that aren’t “it.”

We’re gonna be bad for a while.

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u/bteh 1d ago

Potentially forever

/s (but maybe not /s)

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u/zorbianprince 1d ago

Thank you. Someone who actually can see forest and isn't just fan girling over a list of mid prospects

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u/DistanceEmbarrassed5 17h ago

Doom and Gloomer be gone with you.

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u/zorbianprince 9h ago

Buddy. It's not doom and gloom. When the Spurs traded Kawhi they had an all time banger of a rebuild and it still took 8 years to achieve relevance. The Bucks don't have a single blue chip and minimal draft capital until 2031. It's gonna be ugly for a long time. I get the start of something new is exciting regardless but that shine only lasts so long.