If there has been one nagging issue for the Toronto Raptors this year its the surprise reversal of their ‘bench mob’. Things were bound to change after the Kawhi Leonard / DeMar DeRozan trade, one which saw a bench staple in Jakob Poeltl get shipped off. The bench mob took an even bigger blow at the start of the season when head coach Nick Nurse opted to move rising star Pascal Siakam to the starting line up.
Things have gone wonderfully for Siakam, so much so that he’d been considered for an all-star spot.