Los Angeles Lakers: 3 advantages LA has over the Milwaukee Bucks

By Jason Reed | Sep 14, 2021

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2. The Los Angeles Lakers have a much better bench

While the Milwaukee Bucks do have a really solid starting five, the bench unit leaves much more to be desired. It started to become a problem in the NBA Playoffs for the Bucks as they had to continually shrink the rotation as guys simply were not coming through.

Go back and look at Game 6 of the NBA Finals. The Bucks essentially had seven players in the rotation and one of those players signed with another team as PJ Tucker joined the Miami Heat. The Bucks did not do that much to increase the depth of the bench this offseason either.

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The depth of this team is a problem, especially against a team like the Lakers that has multiple guys who can beat them off the bench. Most of all, the Lakers have a ton of options. The playoff rotation is naturally going to shrink but as it stands right now, the Lakers have 13 legitimate rotation players that could play in a playoff series.

Whether they need to shrink the rotation to eight players or 10 players, the Lakers are going to be leaving people out just by the nature of the playoffs. That is a problem that the Bucks wish they had.

Not only do the Bucks have the disadvantage in depth, but the size of their depth should be really concerning. The Bucks’ second center option (besides Giannis operating as a point center) is Bobby Portis. A big team like the Lakers will absolutely expose the lack of size in Milwaukee.

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