Mamadi Diakite must improve to earn playing time for the Milwaukee Bucks

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If Mamadi Diakite continues to improve, he will earn valuable playing time for the Milwaukee Bucks next season.

The team and the city of Milwaukee are currently riding the wave of their recent achievement of winning the NBA championship. The last time the Bucks were crowned champions was exactly 50 years ago in 1971. While the euphoria of being the best professional basketball team in the world is intoxicating, it wears off after a few short months.

The business of basketball is already in full swing. The NBA draft has already taken place and rookies and second-year players have had their chance to compete in the Las Vegas Summer League. Some were competing for a chance to make the roster; others were hoping to show the coaching staff they’d made significant improvements to their games.

Mamadi Diakite must improve to earn playing time for the Milwaukee Bucks. Here are the things he can do to realize his goals.

Such is the case for Mamadi Diakite, the power forward out of the University of Virginia who just completed his rookie season. While winning an NBA championship in your first season is a dream come true, Diakite undoubtedly wants to make a much bigger impact on the court in year two. Let’s take a look at the areas in which he must improve in order to become a mainstay in head coach Mike Budenholzer’s rotation.