Pascal Siakam watched the film from the fall and struggled with what he saw.
He recognized the lanky, versatile forward on the court, the All-Star that had come from basketball’s fringes to stand at the cusp of a seemingly unlimited basketball future. He saw the body, recognized the movement on the court, down to the No. 43 jersey.
But at the same time, it didn’t look like him.
“It was weird, watching myself,” he said on Thursday, his first public comments since the end of Game 7 of the East semifinals, when the Boston Celtics had ended the Raptors’ season.