Milwaukee Bucks: 3 players facing most pressure in 2019-20
By Jordan Foote
2. Wesley Matthews
The loss of Malcolm Brogdon left a gaping hole in Milwaukee’s backcourt rotation. Replacing a member of the NBA’s exclusive 50-40-90 club (50 percent from the field, 40 percent on threes, 90 percent on free throws) isn’t an easy feat.
Enter, Wesley Matthews. About to kick off his tenth season in the NBA, the longtime veteran is coming off a season in which he averaged 12.2 points per game while canning 37.2 percent of his attempts from deep.
Playing for three teams last year, Matthews will now join his sixth franchise overall.
No longer the defender he once was, Matthews will turn 33 shortly. He is what he is as a player, a 3-point sniper who no longer has the ability to guard the opposition’s best (or second-best) offensive threat.
He still offers value as a catch-and-shoot opportunist and has 36 playoff games under his belt.
Matthews finds his name on this list simply because of who he’s replacing. Expecting him to be a hand-in-glove fit right off the bat would be unfair.
In head coach Mike Budenholzer’s floor-spacing system, though, Matthews will certainly be asked to knock down open looks and create a bit of offense for himself.