It's no secret that the Milwaukee Bucks are going through a bit of an identity crisis.
While their Greg Monroe-centric offense has seen demonstrable improvement, the Bucks' once-vaunted defense has suffered through an early season malaise full of missed rotations and entirely bereft of defensive rebounds. And while the Bucks continue to force turnovers at a respectable clip, heading into Tuesday's matchup in Washington even that strength was well off their league-leading pace from a year ago.
Our Eric Nehm broke down the Bucks' defensive struggles at Milwaukee Magazine late last week, arguing that it had less to do with tactics and more to do with mindset:
The Bucks defense has been very bad this season.