<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">San Antonio - The math is elementary. It doesn't take someone with a degree in advanced hoopology to figure out that over the course of the last 10? weeks, the Milwaukee Bucks have been playing at basically a .500 pace. A little better at times. A little worse at times. After opening with victories over Philadelphia, New Jersey and Miami, the Bucks closed out the first week of the season with a 3-0 record. Now, they will take a 19-17 mark into their game tonight against the defending champion San Antonio Spurs at the newly named AT&T Center. That means that since the opening week of the season, the Bucks have compiled a 16-17 record. An improvement over last season? Sure. Good enough to get into the playoffs in the Eastern Conference? Probably. Was more expected of this team? That depends on whom you talk to. And when. "It goes in peaks and valleys," coach Terry Stotts said. "You're always going to have stretches. . . . You have to take the whole season for what it is. If you had asked that question eight games ago, you wouldn't have come to that same conclusion. So it depends on when you ask the question. If you'd have asked eight games ago, we wouldn't be a .500 team. It probably just depends on when you ask the question."</div> Source
