Austrian seven-footer has earned more playing time.
It is a unique set of circumstances that has landed Jakob Poeltl at this point in his life and his basketball career, a point far along a path seldom taken by successful NBA rookies.
Each of the circumstances is different, each is important, each has led to the 21-year-old Toronto Raptor becoming a contributing member of a very good team.
He grew up in Austria, hardly a basketball hotbed.