Are the Milwaukee Bucks capable of taking the next step? Have they improved enough to not only advance to the Eastern Conference finals, like they did last year, but win the Eastern Conference championship, like they didn't do last year?

Could they even win it all? Could they conceivably capture just their second-ever NBA championship, their first and last coming in 1971 with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson leading the way?

Those questions, and others, were posed to several NBA experts. Here are their takes on how the Bucks will fare this season and their predictions on what could go down in the playoffs: