Milwaukee Bucks: What’s trending in the seventh week of the season

Bobby Portis has been a rising trend for the Milwaukee Bucks.

Bobby Portis is another one of the aforementioned new acquisitions the Bucks made this offseason, and while he has shown flashes of strong play off the bench, the four games last week really stood out as one of Portis’ best weeks of the season so far.

In the Bucks’ four wins, Portis averaged 14 points on 24-for-45 shooting from the field (53.3 percent) and 7-of-12 from long distance (63.6 percent), along with 7.8 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.5 steals over 21 minutes per contest. A fantastic conversion rate for your first option off the bench.

In Portis, the Bucks have a bonafide bench scorer that they didn’t consistently have last season, especially within their frontcourt. That, in turn, has led to Portis enjoying his most efficient season of his well-traveled six-year career, judging by his 61.1 true shooting percentage.

Like Forbes, Portis has had his troubles of holding up his production when going against winning teams this season. That still stands as the biggest issue facing both Portis and the Bucks’ bench, but it’s clear Portis has found his fit in Milwaukee this season.