Well, Khris Middleton and Splash Mountain are the Bucks representatives in the 2020 team.
Couple things- picked this up from Bill Simmons on his podcast- players that commit to USA Basketball tend to have big seasons the following year. The posited reason is the time spent with elite coaches and the increased competition with elite players. Lebron, Wade, Carmelo, even Kobe- all had career years after playing their summer with USA Basketball. Simmons (and his guest Brian Windhorst theorized that more stars should want to play USA Basketball because it makes you better.
This is of course particularly interesting for Middleton. He’s never been a particularly good athlete, and there have been whispers about his fitness in the past being a little lacking. This summer he’s getting coached by Pop, he’s going to be playing against plenty of foreign NBA stars, and a lot more basketball will he played. Will Middleton benefit like these others obviously have?
And Splash Mountain will simply be a fine tuned machine coming into ‘19-20...