Pascal Siakam Will Be A Top 5 Player This Season

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Will Siakam be a top 5 player at the end of the season?

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Re: Pascal Siakam Will Be A Top 5 Player This Season 

Post#41 » by bisme37 » Sat Sep 14, 2019 10:24 pm

I like Pascal but he's likely to be less efficient now that the other team will be focused on guarding him. And his defense may take a step back now that he'll have to exert more energy on offense. I expect this year to be a learning experience for him and I see him getting a little better overall but having his ups and downs.

And I know OP is trying to hype his player but I really don't think threads like this help at all. When you set unreasonable expectations it just makes the player seem disappointing even when he is playing well.
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Re: Pascal Siakam Will Be A Top 5 Player This Season 

Post#42 » by The_Hater » Sat Sep 14, 2019 10:27 pm

Canadafan wrote:
Catchall wrote:He'll be a #1 offensive option this year, so he'll have an opportunity to show what he can do. To be a top 5 player, he'd have to put up something like 28/8/6...


Gonna be ugly when every other team game plans to stop him and then they'll have to rely on Lowry again to be the top guy.


Yet it wasn’t ugly last year, so when you use the word ‘again’ exactly which games are you referring too?
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Re: Pascal Siakam Will Be A Top 5 Player This Season 

Post#43 » by MagicBagley18 » Sat Sep 14, 2019 10:33 pm

Haha
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Re: Pascal Siakam Will Be A Top 5 Player This Season 

Post#44 » by Effigy » Sat Sep 14, 2019 10:59 pm

If you mean on the Raptors, then I agree.
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Post#45 » by boston_fan_ct » Sat Sep 14, 2019 11:11 pm

um... no. that means he will be better than Kawhi or Lebron or Durrant or Harden or Gianis? No. I think not. not even in the conversation. just watch the 2019 NBA season to see... No Kawhi his team will struggle to make the playoffs.
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Post#46 » by RRyder823 » Sat Sep 14, 2019 11:13 pm

If hes basically "Giannis with a 3pt shot" then you are drastically understating him OP. He'll be one of the greatest players of all time if that's the case.

That's how absurd this post is

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Re: Pascal Siakam Will Be A Top 5 Player This Season 

Post#47 » by AirCanadaMouse » Sat Sep 14, 2019 11:15 pm

On behalf of Raptor fans, I would like to apologize for a thread as stupid as this. Please realize that some people in this fan base seriously overrate this guy. Saying he's better than Bosh, and soon to be Carter. This isn't the first time someone compared Pascal to Giannis, and no Pascal's jumper is not "wet, wet, wet"... he can only hit a corner 3 and can't shoot a 3 off the dribble.

As you can see, we have some utterly clueless people in our fan base. Please forgive us, we're not all as daft as this.
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Re: Pascal Siakam Will Be A Top 5 Player This Season 

Post#48 » by OriginalRed » Sat Sep 14, 2019 11:17 pm

I hate threads like these because your openly inviting people to speak negatively about a certain player by placing unrealstic expectations on them. I love Siakam but Top 5 player in the NBA is reserved for Franchise altering players and I just don't see that happening with him.
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Post#49 » by PistolPeteJR » Sat Sep 14, 2019 11:19 pm

Freaking hell Ninja man...
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Re: Pascal Siakam Will Be A Top 5 Player This Season 

Post#50 » by K4P » Sat Sep 14, 2019 11:59 pm

jimmy keys wrote:
KAT4PREZ wrote:Top 20 would be a more realistic ambitious goal


He's already top 20 bruh where you been.

Not according to SI
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Re: Pascal Siakam Will Be A Top 5 Player This Season 

Post#51 » by NO-KG-AI » Sun Sep 15, 2019 12:04 am

AirCanadaMouse wrote:On behalf of Raptor fans, I would like to apologize for a thread as stupid as this. Please realize that some people in this fan base seriously overrate this guy. Saying he's better than Bosh, and soon to be Carter. This isn't the first time someone compared Pascal to Giannis, and no Pascal's jumper is not "wet, wet, wet"... he can only hit a corner 3 and can't shoot a 3 off the dribble.

As you can see, we have some utterly clueless people in our fan base. Please forgive us, we're not all as daft as this.


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Re: Pascal Siakam Will Be A Top 5 Player This Season 

Post#52 » by HotelVitale » Sun Sep 15, 2019 12:06 am

NinjaBro wrote: You heard it here first, he's going to breakout this year another level into superstardom. He's an elite defender that can't be stopped when he's attacking you (maybe Embiid but he stops everyone)...Take it to the bank.


As with all of these 'you heard it here first!' takes, you need to put in a consequence for yourself if you're wrong or else it's empty jawing. You told us to take it to the bank--are you yourself willing to bet a significant amount of money on this prediction coming true?
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Re: Pascal Siakam Will Be A Top 5 Player This Season 

Post#53 » by Clyde Frazier » Sun Sep 15, 2019 12:16 am

Well that's a weird thing to say.
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Re: Pascal Siakam Will Be A Top 5 Player This Season 

Post#54 » by lambchop » Sun Sep 15, 2019 12:17 am

If he's top5, it simply means the NBA is no longer the best league in the world
So many people who attain the heights of power in this culture—celebrities, for instance—have to make a show of false humility and modesty, as if they got as far as they did by accident and not by ego or ambition.
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Re: Pascal Siakam Will Be A Top 5 Player This Season 

Post#55 » by RyderMike » Sun Sep 15, 2019 12:26 am

Siakam will be a Top 5 player this season
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in the Atlantic Division
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maybe
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Re: Pascal Siakam Will Be A Top 5 Player This Season 

Post#56 » by dk1115 » Sun Sep 15, 2019 12:36 am

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Re: Pascal Siakam Will Be A Top 5 Player This Season 

Post#57 » by Feed Your Head » Sun Sep 15, 2019 12:45 am

I think he settles in the 15-25 range long term, which is a fantastic player.
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Post#58 » by JShuttlesworth » Sun Sep 15, 2019 12:45 am

....Top 5? Don't see it.
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Re: Pascal Siakam Will Be A Top 5 Player This Season 

Post#59 » by Tlucyk27 » Sun Sep 15, 2019 12:59 am

So in this world one of lebron, harden, giannis, kawhi, george is worse than siakam? Raptors fan since the start but you're making us look bad man
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Re: Pascal Siakam Will Be A Top 5 Player This Season 

Post#60 » by LightTheBeam » Sun Sep 15, 2019 1:16 am

This thread could have been much better if OP just said top 20.. Hell even top 15.

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