“That being said, we have to be so much better at the end of games,” Bufford said. “We can’t blow a 21-point lead with 12 minutes to go. However bad and biased and unfair and illegal and cheating the referees are, we have to be better closing games. So that’s the way I feel.” Buford played college basketball at Kansas as a reserve and is the son of five-time NBA champion general manager R.C. Buford. Buford was hired by the Milwaukee Bucks, which oversee the Herd, in July as the team’s second-ever head coach. Prior to that he was an assistant for the G-League’s Delaware Blue Coats and Erie BayHawks.