We got all sales some trades. The Milwaukee box trade for PJ Tucker, the Miami Heat. Get Trevor

Reza, John Morant hits a game winner, so does Deerrin Fox, and Seth Curry goes down with a strange

injury. Hopefully, it's not too serious. Two trades, two game winners, 10 game night in the

association. Let's go. Hey, I'm Tasmelis, and this is what you need to know in the NBA for Thursday,

March 18th. It's trade season, baby. The Milwaukee box landed landed rugged forward, PJ Tucker from the Rockets.

Let's take a step back to see what's motivating this move for Milwaukee.

The Bucks, if you remember, they were embarrassed in the bubble.

They were eliminated in five games in the second round after finishing atop the Eastern Conference standings.

They couldn't score.

Defenses were able to clog the lane on two-time MVP Janice de Kumpo and Chris Middleton,

and the team had no counter. So in the offseason, they got a ball handler and Drew Holiday

to open up the lane by making a play, unclog that lane, call Holiday the plunger.

We love talking about plungers here on no dunks.

Yannis especially needed more space.

And they opened it up further by acquiring three-point shooters

and developing their own.

It's worked.

They've got the fourth best three-point percentage this season

after being 18th last year.

And that's the thinking here. If Janice has stopped, Middleton or Holiday should be able to make a play or Yanis can find a capable

shooter. But many of those shooters aren't great defenders and they've changed their schemes by

switching more, which was needed. So their defense has dropped off. Best team in the NBA the last

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