They say familiarity breeds contempt.
See anything for long enough and you start to fault it for what it isn’t. The mini-van I drive my kids to school in, is, by all accounts, very good at it’s job. Catch me on the road on the wrong day though? As I realize I’m not going to have the pick-up to get around the streetcar in time? Then I’m wishing my Chevy was something with more… kick.
It would be an exaggeration to say that the Toronto Raptors fan-base has anything approaching contempt for Pascal Siakam, but as Toronto fans move into their sixth year with the Cameroonian wing, is it possible they’ve become too focused on his perceived weaknesses?