Call it recency bias. Call it delusional confidence. But with the Raptors back to .500 for the first time since early December, it certainly didn’t take long for Pascal Siakam to display the kind of swagger you don’t always see from the slumping best player of a disappointment of an NBA team.
“We’re going to be dangerous if we get in there in the playoffs, and that’s our goal,” Siakam told TNT after Tuesday’s home win over the Miami Heat. “We can be a nightmare, for sure.”
So much for the Raptors stealthily arriving in the post-season as an overlooked underdog.