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Rhetorical question of the day: is Chris “The BoucheBag” Boucher, right now, better than Pascal “Mild P” Siakam?
Screw it, remove the “rhetorical” part. I’m just straight up asking the question, even though I, you, and my tubby little kitty Japurri Purrker all know full well what the answer is.
Actually, screw it, remove the “question” part too. Let’s simply say it, no beating around the bush, no traipsing around the shrubbery, no stravaiging about the topiary: Boucher is better than Siakam. For sure. Maybe not quite when you solely consider their on-court exploits, but when you add their respective contract situations in to the mix? I know who I want on my team, and it’s the guy who mimics medieval siege weaponry whenever he takes a three.
There are tons of Raptors fans who have noticed that Siakam kinda looks like he wants to die this year, and they’re busy trying to figure out why. He already looked this way in the bubble, so this isn’t a new thing, but the hope was that he would use the shortened offseason to rejuvenate himself and show the form that made him an All-Star last year. Nope! His scoring sucks, his decision making sucks, he’s a foul machine, and he already got a team suspension for being a mopy dramatic emo.
Do emos even exist anymore? While Raptors fans occupy themselves with diagnosing the root cause of Siakam’s garbaginess, I’m going to go to the mall and see if there are still emos walking around. If they even let me in the mall. Frickin’ COVID.
Anyway, even while Siakam is busy being weird, Boucher is busy HUSTLING and playing with HEART and being OLDER than GIANNIS by TWO WHOLE YEARS. There are still flaws in his game, sure, but he’s shown a bit of improvement over last season, and that’s what the Raptors need from their “young” talent if they’re going to make the playoffs this year.
Or they could just tank. That’s probably what I would do.