NBA Tank Rankings: Rockets make unexpected arrival
By Brad Rowland
The Philadelphia 76ers are one of the biggest stories in the NBA world for all of the wrong reasons. The franchise has (still) yet to win a game during the 2015-2016 season, and as a result, we still lack an answer to last week’s question concerning when Brett Brown’s team will actually tally a victory.
However, Philly is not the only franchise scuffling right now, and our charge in this space each week is to break down the worst of the worst in a battle for tanking “supremacy”. These aren’t always the five worst teams in the league, but the race for ping-pong balls is always changing, and we are here to bring you up to speed.
Let’s get started, with the tanking countdown coming in reverse order.
89. <p>The 2014-2015 Milwaukee Bucks finished with the second-best defense in the NBA, allowing only 99.3 points per 100 possessions.</p> <p>The 2015-2016 Milwaukee Bucks have the worst defense in the NBA, allowing 109.5 points per 100 possessions.</p> <p>Those two statements are equally true, and the latter sentence should be depressing for Bucks fans. Milwaukee added a big-time talent in Greg Monroe during the off-season, but he is anything but a defensive stalwart, and the Bucks simply aren’t executing at all on that end of the floor right now. There is plenty of time for Milwaukee to right the ship, but a 6-10 start wasn’t supposed to happen this season, and doubters are beginning to surface.</p>. (6-10). Previous: . Milwaukee Bucks. 5. team
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