Siakam

The Scottie/Pascal mins trend similarly dating back to last year and year prior. Scottie tends to perform better when Pascal is on the court.

Offense has gone from historically bad to basically above average in the half court in that time as well. Scottie has maintained excellent play as well.

Feels like his shooting is changing the team paradigm so radically, for the better

Boston really struggles to get to the rim. It’ll hurt them in the playoffs. Siakam would help tremendously, Siakam is also a much better playmaker.

Having said that, Jaylen Brown isn’t very good IMO neither are the Raptors. He’s making 60M a year. Not worth it at all. He won’t make the team better and pigeonhole them more. He’s a glorified OG. I think OG might even be better.

Jokic is 28, Giannis is 28, 2-3 years from now whatever teams they’re on will still probably be top dogs.

FVV that was just a bad draw on a complete overreach by the Rockets IMO. They honestly processed that one right but the outcome didn’t work out.

Pascal is a max guy full stop, and the dynamics on that baseline alone change things. No need to guess, some team is likely to offer him the max or close to it. No home town discount here. The Raptors can always offer him more than anyone else can on annual raises etc and Supermax potential, so they always have that ace in their back pocket, but otherwise, the alternatives should be clear.

If you’re not planning to move him now, than maybe you plan to do it next year, or otherwise wholesale move on from the ancillary pieces and get a competent roster around the remainder of the team.

It’s been incredibly frustrating to watch Pascal and Scottie oscillate elite moments, only to be undone by the fact that there are no complimentary players around either of them on the roster, outside OG.

My question is what’s the next step. The previous ones at this point are fairly transparent.

Although Dennis percentage is better, teams don’t respect him as much as shooter hence he doesn’t space the floor as well. That’s about it IMO. Still a lot of dribble dribble dribbling if you ask me.