As he continued his stay with the Milwaukee Bucks in free agency this offseason, let’s outline three goals for Pat Connaughton to achieve this 2020-21 season.
It turns out that after two seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks, Pat Connaughton wasn’t ready to head elsewhere.
Connaughton is one of few faces to have returned to the Bucks after signing a three-year, $16 million deal in free agency this offseason. Furthermore, the 27-year-old is the lone player to have returned to Milwaukee of their free agents this fall.
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Citing his desire to stay in Milwaukee and the unfinished business he and his teammates have felt after falling short of winning an NBA title the last two seasons, Connaughton is one of the few holdovers that gives the Bucks some stability after a busy offseason.
So without further ado, let’s detail three goals for Pat Connaughton to achieve with the Milwaukee Bucks this 2020-21 season.
Goal no. 1 – Master 3-point consistency
No bigger development would be crucial for Connaughton’s future than being able to shoot threes at a more adequate rate.
A career 34.4 percent 3-point shooter, Connaughton has only shot 33.1 percent from that level of the floor during his first two years in Milwaukee. The ups and downs that the sixth-year wing has shown when letting it fly over his career and specifically in Milwaukee has served as a massive hurdle for fully optimizing his role and abilities.
The fact that Connaughton shot 32.2 percent on his catch-and-shoot triples last season points to how great of a deficiency this is to his game and likewise, to the Bucks’ abilities to put out as many shooters around Giannis Antetokounmpo and so on. It certainly hasn’t been for a lack of trying on Connaughton’s part as he constantly refers to the work that he’s put in to improve his shooting prowess and his overall work ethic certainly speaks for itself.
But without the shooting improvements that all Bucks fans have been losing hope in seeing from him, Connaughton may end up in the very same role that he has previously occupied in each of the last two seasons.