Madison Square Garden Stadium, basketball Mecca.
The players who can face the Knicks with 50 + high scores here are not famous big stars. The last one is Kevin Durant, and the further one is James Harden, stephen Curry. Super stars such as LeBlanc James, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan are also listed.
Now, Raptors forward pascarl siacam has also joined the list.
On December 22, Beijing time, when Raptors beat Knicks in the first world war 113-106 away, siacam made 17 of 25 shots, of which 2 were made in 3-6 shots, plus 18 penalty 16 scored 52 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists. 52 points per game is the new high in siacam’s career. He is also the player who scored at least 50 points in the 5th single game of Raptors young pioneer team history, and the other 4 are Van frit (54 points), demal-DeRozan (52 points), Vance-Carter (51 points), Terence-rose (51 points).
This season, siacam has completed the ultimate evolution from a rogue fighter to an organization forward, which lasted for 5 years. Siacam has the opportunity to hit the annual best lineup plus the super top salary contract again. Honor and money are important, but for siacam, the most important thing is to make his dead father proud of him. He always believes that his father looks at him in heaven.
In October, 2014, before the first official competition in his career at siacam University, he received an international long distance from Cameroon. On the phone, Siakam learned that his father died of a serious accident. The bad news broke Siakam, and he burst into tears. At that moment, he only wanted to go back to Cameroon as soon as possible to attend the funeral and make a final farewell to his father.
However, siacam missed the funeral because of visa problems and mother’s obstruction, which also became the regret of his life.
It may be difficult for people who know Siakam’s childhood experience to understand why Siakam has such deep feelings with his father. Because siacam was forced to be sent to the seminary by his father when he was 11 years old. Siacam fought but was useless. His father did not intend to make his son a basketball player, but a priest. The life of the seminary is very bitter. Children should stay away from their families and feel lonely. They need to get up at 5:30 in the morning. The food in the canteen is so hard to swallow.
Siacam cried every day during the first week when he was sent to Seminary. Although he gradually adapted to the life of seminary, this did not mean that he could understand his father’s intention of sending him to seminary, mother just told him that this was the best decision.
At that time, siacam had no sign of becoming a basketball player. After graduating from seminary, he received an invitation to South Africa to participate in basketball borderless activities, but he did not intend to accept it. Perhaps, becoming a basketball player was the fate of Siakam, because his sister lived in South Africa and Siakam had not seen her for several years. He decided to visit relatives in South Africa, and playing basketball was just by the way. As a result, siacam performed well in that activity, attracting the attention of some American preparatory high school coaches.
After going to the United States, siacam first studied in preparatory high school for a year and then accepted the recruitment of New Mexico State University. Because the road of basketball started too late, Siakam heard countless voices of doubt. Even his teammates laughed at him that he could not hold the ball, his hands were hard like stones, and his shooting would only hit the iron crazily. Siacam, who was surrounded by doubts, had a simple goal to shut them up. He wanted to prove these people wrong.
His father’s death made Siakam see a lot. He felt that it was meaningless to compete with those contestant. He just wasted time and energy. He just wanted to fight for his father and make his father proud of him.
In 2016, siacam was selected by the Raptors in the 27th place. The first two seasons of siacam were just the blue collar of the front line. Most of the time, he was responsible for blocking and removing the cover, participating in several counterattacks, and making several sneak attacks without balls.
In the 2018-19 season, siacam won the fastest progressive player of the year award and the Raptors won the first championship in young pioneer team history. In this season, although siacam’s ball-holding offensive play increased a little, he still scored more by no-ball attack. When he played the Warriors in the finals, siacam performed well, but in fact, most of his attack scores in the series came from when Desmond Green was in foul trouble and dared not to do the action, his proportion of no-ball attack accounted for more than 70%.
In short, even when the Raptors won the championship season, siacam was more a master of chaos. After kehuai-Leonard left, the Raptors decided to develop siacam in the direction of organizing the forward. In the 2019-20 season, the number of siacam hundred rounds of face frame singles increased to 4.9 times, the number of low-level singles increased to 3.5 times, and the number of block and tear-off ball attacks increased to 4.1 times, the play of the ball-holding attack has accounted for more than 40% of the total number of attack rounds.
“We gave him the green light and he could do whatever he wanted.” Raptors coach Nasi said, “We want to see how high his upper limit is. He can break through, hit his back, and throw three points. He can fight the conversion attack, and he can also fight the block and split.”
In 2020, siacam was selected as the All-Star starter. He became the first player in history who played in NBA Development League but was selected as the All-Star starter. That was the proudest moment of siacam: “Unbelievable, my father always dreamed that one day his son would enter NBA. He worked hard to send his children to America for education, played NCAA and strive to enter NBA, I did it. Winning the NBA championship and entering the All-Star to start, many people think I can’t do it, but I did it. This is my father’s dream. I really hope he can see all this. I know he looks at me in heaven, and I can feel his existence.”
In the past two years, the Raptors have experienced ups and downs and their prospects are uncertain. However, the Raptors have not shaken their determination to cultivate siacam in the direction of organizing forwards. Siacam’s time of holding the ball has increased year by year, reaching 6.5 minutes this season. At the same time, siacam’s attack mode is also increasing the proportion of ball-holding attacks. His number of hundred rounds of ball-holding attacks this season has increased to 6.3 career highs, the number of low-level singles in 100 rounds is 3, and the number of low-level singles in 100 rounds is 5.6.
Siacam was selected as the best team in the third team last season. This season, he averaged 26.2 points, 8.6 rebounds and 6.8 assists, and the data was even more gorgeous than last season. According to the rules, if siacam enters the best team again this season, he will be eligible to sign a five-year super top-salary contract of 0.2856 billion dollars when he becomes a free agent in 2023 or 2024, so siacam refused to sign an early renewal contract with the Raptors for 3 years and 0.1367 billion dollars.
Today, siacam is the core of the team with an annual salary of 35.45 million dollars. There are still bigger contracts waving to him in the future, but money and honor have not made him forget his original intention.
Siakam would still write “Rest in Peace Dad” on the sneakers. Every time he stepped on the court wearing No. 43 battle robe, he would touch the number “4” and 4 on behalf of his father and three brothers, then touch the number “3” 3 on behalf of mother and two sisters, and finally cross the chest, pointing to the sky with one hand.
“I know, my father is looking at me.”