Nobody on the Raptors has been as difficult for fans to project as second year centre Jakob Poeltl. Although he did everything well as a rookie, there wasn’t an obvious translatable weapon in his arsenal aside from his “basketball IQ,” which is often regarded as a player’s ability to learn.
Heading into his second year, Poeltl spent the summer training with Pascal Siakam and Fred VanVleet, cementing an already great chemistry between the three players. Poeltl, along with Siakam and VanVleet, played for the Raptors in the Summer League; he played four games and averaged 27 minutes per game, 13.