It is not a new Pascal Siakam that the Raptors are seeing these days, it is an old one.
An old one but a wiser one, one more comfortable with his role, his life and his place in the pecking order.
One who is at peace.
“He hit his roadblock but he got through it,” Fred VanVleet said of his teammate on the weekend. “He’s on the other side of it now, he’s playing the best basketball of his career.”
To suggest that this season has been some revelation about Siakam is to disregard his complete history.