And so the crowds have spoken, albeit not in the way I expected, but Brew Hoop democracy has ruled Ersan Ilyasova as the least valuable Milwaukee Buck on the roster. Turkish Thunder may have been rumbling all summer in China, but a swift storm of readers flew in real quick to send it shuttling back down to the confines of Mequon. Personally, I’m in pretty staunch disagreement on this one, but let’s run through some plausible lines of thought for this result.
1. He’s (relatively) expensive for a (relatively) older man
Yes, Jon Horst may have gotten a little too trigger happy doling out a $7M deal for Ersan at 12:01 in 2018, but all things considered, he was a pretty solid contributor of all year.