{"id":651268,"date":"2026-03-10T17:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/651268\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:50:18","slug":"milwaukee-bucks-poll-should-myles-turner-or-jericho-sims-get-more-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/651268\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks Poll: Should Myles Turner or Jericho Sims get more minutes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Bucks fans and fans across the country. Sign up here<\/a> to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re combining this week\u2019s tracking poll with the Reacts survey, soliciting your opinions on the state of the Bucks\u2019 frontcourt. Jack and I discussed Myles Turner\u2019s usage by this coaching staff on the most recent episode of Deer Diaries<\/a>, including how Jericho Sims continues receiving more minutes. That\u2019s inversely proportional to their contract sizes, but the two bring pretty different skillsets on both ends at the five.<\/p>\n

While Sims is definitely the switchier option, which is important, the Bucks are too small and routinely get abused on switches. I certainly wouldn\u2019t abandon switching altogether because it\u2019s needed, especially in late-game situations, but I contend that it shouldn\u2019t be their base scheme, preferring drop coverage with Turner. We\u2019ve seen next to no drop from the Bucks this year, and despite a younger team which should theoretically switch better, this is their worst defense since the Jason Kidd years.<\/p>\n

When that was their primary defensive look in the Brook Lopez years, Milwaukee always ranked among the top defenders of roll men, even last season. This year, they\u2019re in 29th. If Turner wasn\u2019t being switched off every pick-and-roll, or he wasn\u2019t heading to the corner every time up the floor offensively and thus needing to cover more ground to get back on defense, I don\u2019t think they\u2019d be that bad. Maybe even solid. Essentially, use Turner like Brook Lopez, as we assumed they would, then use Sims when you need to switch, which shouldn\u2019t always be their look.<\/p>\n

In this week\u2019s Tuesday Tracker, weigh in on Turner vs. Sims. We\u2019re also keeping an eye on the Pelicans, who keep moving up the standings and are just a game away from seventh in the lottery standings; how should that impact the Bucks, given the swap rights they hold? For reference, here are the chances Milwaukee ends up at various draft positions if they remain in 10th and New Orleans is either sixth or seventh, factoring in that the better pick ends up in The Big Easy (though it then becomes property of Atlanta) via the swap:<\/p>\n

As always, this poll will be open until midnight Central on Friday, and we\u2019ll post the results later that day. Thanks for voting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Throughout the year we ask questions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,42595,6,478,470,4073,4072,675],"class_list":{"0":"post-651268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-pelicans","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bucks-polls","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-new-orleans","12":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanspelicans","15":"tag-pelicans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116206149568465733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}