When a player is doing everything as well as Pascal Siakam is on a basketball floor these days, it can be hard to distill his game down to one thing or another. His playmaking, for example, has earned plenty of attention, and justifiably. The 27-year-old came into the NBA as an energizing power-forward after playing two years of mid-major basketball as an under-sized centre. And yet the Toronto Raptors have been thriving of late in large part because Siakam has become the secondary – and quite often the primary – ball-handler on the team alongside point guard Fred VanVleet . It’s worked wonderfully. VanVleet is one of the best catch-and-shoot players in the NBA, which is one reason he thrived playing alongside the departed Kyle Lowry on a point guard tandem. But rather than find another option to play point alongside VanVleet – once Goran Dragic and Malachi Flynn were deemed unsuitable – the 6-foot-9 Siakam has stepped into the role. In his last 26 games Siakam has averaged six...