Andrew Kamenetzky: The Milwaukee Bucks locker room is a “No Twitter” zone

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So learned Bucks forward Charlie Villanueva after it came to light that recent halftime Gatorade and orange slices also included some down low Twitter action. During the intermission of an eventual 86-77 win over the Boston Celtics last Sunday, CV slipped away to deliver the following message to the devotees of his ‘CV31’ ID.

‘In da locker room, snuck to post with my twitt. We’re playing the Celtics, tie ball game at da half. Coach wants more toughness. I gotta step up.’

While some might consider it admirable that Villanueva took the initiative to channel his inner- and cyber- ‘Knute Rockne’, Coach Scott Skiles wasn’t digging it, and put the kibosh on any further in-game ‘tweets.’ Personally, I think the larger point is being missed.

The Bucks are jockeying for the eighth spot in the East without the services of stars Michael Redd and Andrew Bogut. They had lost seven of their previous 10 before beating Boston, who aren’t just the defending champs, but the first squad over .500 the Bucks downed since a Feb. 22 win over the Nuggets. Why on Earth would you change anything that helped create a positive trend? Were I Skiles, I’d not only let Villanueva -- who led the team with 19 points -- tweet at halftime until his thumbs bled, I’d make the entire team do it. Redd, Bogut and anyone else in street clothes would be doing Twitter play-by-play accounts of the game from the sidelines. Hell, Damon Jones could record his DNP-CDs with a freakin’ desktop computer in his lap for all I’d care. But Scott, my man, don’t abandon what’s working, because frankly, so little else has.

If the Bucks wrap up the regular season on the outside of the postseason looking in, I think fans of CV31 should send some sternly worded tweets to the Bucks front office.

AK