Behind the Milwaukee Bucks' three-point shooting and Giannis Antetokounmpo's improving jumper is Ben Sullivan, a key member of the coaching staff.
Ben Sullivan is an assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks.
Sullivan, then an assistant coach at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, knew Udoka from the local hoops scene. Although Sullivan was interested in advancing his coaching career, the NBA wasn't even on his radar. With Sullivan's help, the Bucks have become one of the NBA's most dynamic teams. He is trying to help bring them to the next level.How Sullivan got his"Master's degree in basketball"
Forcier and Engelland ran the team's video intern program and assigned interns to specific coaches. Sullivan got appointed to Engelland, who is highly regarded as one of the league's best shooting coaches.Sullivan describes a two-year"whirlwind" with the Spurs.
The Hawks made the playoffs three straight years, but could not get past LeBron James' Cleveland Cavaliers. At the end of the 2017-18 season, the Hawks and Budenholzer agreed to part ways. The Bucks had some shooters on the roster already, but GM Jon Horst went to work finding more. He added two floor-spreading big men in Ersan Ilyasova and Brook Lopez. He made in-season trades for George Hill and Nikola Mirotic, yet another sweet-shooting power forward.
If there's a player besides Antetokounmpo who best represents the Bucks' success this season, it might be Lopez. The seven-footer has gone from a traditional, back-to-the-basket center to one of the most lethal three-point shooters in all of the league. Lopez has taken and made more three-pointers than any player listed at seven feet or taller, according to the NBA's stats site. His 512 total attempts rank first on the Bucks and 15th in the league.
Sullivan said he used to hear"whispers" of Antetokounmpo's notorious work ethic. So driven is Antetokounmpo that the Bucks have literally locked him out of the gym,"You hear little chatter like, 'Giannis has kinda got that work ethic like Kobe, Jordan.'" Sullivan said, two minutes into his first workout with Antetokounmpo, he was blown away.
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