Pat Connaughton had a week where he seemingly got better in every game until he was the least productive he’s been in a while. On April 19, he came agonizingly close to a double-double in the Milwaukee Bucks’ one-point loss to the Phoenix Suns. He scored nine points on 3-of-4 shooting from 3-point range and grabbed nine rebounds. He still has not achieved a double-double since Game 2 of the Bucks’ 2020 first-round playoff series.
The Bucks played back-to-back home games against the Philadelphia 76ers, and Connaughton was productive with respective lines of 10 and five and 11 and six. He’ll want to forget his April 25 performance at the Atlanta Hawks. That’s because he scored only five points and was kept out of the rebounding column for the first time this season and first time since playing only 31 seconds in Game 3 of last year’s conference semifinals. It all added up to 8.8 points and 5.0 rebounds a game on 56.5 percent shooting from the field over the past week.