When Kawhi Leonard left the Toronto Raptors in the summer of 2019, the team was left with a void left to fill. Leonard had just lifted the Raptors to their first-ever NBA championship on the back of a historic postseason run where he averaged 30.5 points per game on an unreal TS% of 62-percent. It was up to Pascal Siakam to fill that void.
An unfair task in some ways, but the expectations were not set as high as they were for Leonard coming in one year earlier. Siakam was voted as the NBA's Most Improved Player one year ago after averaging 16.