The most gifted team in the East and the oddest in the league, the Milwaukee Bucks continued their strange behavior at San Antonio's expense Saturday night.

With a five-game road trip facing them, it might be safe to let the kids leave home after all, although it's anybody's guess how they'll decide to entertain themselves.

As hard as they try, they can't provide a rational explanation for why they're playing their best ball of the season with their best player sitting down. Ray Allen isn't perfect, but he is 21 points a night, and the Bucks rarely have that much to spare.

One of George Karl's favorite screwball theories is that good teams turn injuries into positives. Taken to its logical conclusion, that would make it a sound idea to smack your shooting guard around every once in a while just to make everyone else focus.