Rebuilding a team is no easy feat and right now the Milwaukee Bucks are in the earliest stage of trying to make their rebuild work, but all things take time.

The Bucks are in an intermediary phase of their rebuild. While they took a big swing by trading forward Giannis Antetokounmpo to the Miami Heat for a haul of players and picks in return, they also have several players from their previous roster still with them, so now the main process is finding a way to merge their new players with their previous ones. 

That itself is a delicate process and one that doesn't happen all at once. While accumulating new talent is the foundation of a rebuild, finding a fit and establishing the most effective rotations is the next most crucial process and one that doesn't always happen quickly or smoothly.

Preseason is the optimum time for those kind of processes to happen and for things to go as efficiently as they possibly can requires buy-in from all the players involved and the time that it takes to apply trial and error. 

Patience is key in that regard and there's no real way to find those fits without simply going out on the court and experimenting with rotations that could work. 

Center Myles Turner, one of the players carrying over from the previous era of Bucks basketball into the new phase, has been seeing that process happen in real time and while he admitted that things haven't gone perfectly yet, he's encouraged by what he's seeing be built in Milwaukee.

“It’s definitely a work in progress," Turner said (via Cameron Ezeir). "Right now we’re still trying to figure out rotations… I like the fact that we’re able to go out there and get live reps to see what it looks like."

With so many players coming over at once from the Heat, there will naturally be some competition for starting roles and minutes, though that's something that will be determined by performance and chemistry rather than any kind of seniority or time with the team. 

Having talent at your disposal is a good thing, but that talent still needs to work for the team in the most efficient way and the only way to discover that efficiency is through repetition and experimentation, two things that the Bucks will likely keep doing throughout the regular season while expectations for the team are still low. 

Milwaukee is in the midst of building the team back up and ideally restoring themselves to prominence one day, but it's a long process to get there and as Turner has observed, it won't happen all at once.