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Milwaukee Bucks: Ersan Ilyasova’s growing importance defensively

Over the course of the regular season, the Milwaukee Bucks proved themselves not just to be one of the best teams in the NBA, but one of the deepest too.

Discussion of depth often focuses on the sheer number of players capable of taking to the court and giving quality minutes, which in turn leads to the misnomer that depth is less important in the playoffs when rotations are more likely to be short.

One of the most important elements of real depth, though, is for a team to not only have extensive options, but to have real versatility among that group.