MINNEAPOLIS -- In the Pacers' first three games of what has so far been a star-crossed season, Pascal Siakam has been asked to be three different players and he's found that the assignment changes mid-game as his collection of teammates shrinks.

In Thursday's season opener, he was expected to operate as part of a four-man collective of core players entering the first game of their partnership. By halftime of that game, that collective shrank by one and he Siakam was then expected to operate in a two-man game with a partner who he'd never worked with quite that closely. And then by the end of the third quarter of Game 2, that partner joined several teammates on the shelf and he was then being asked to put a team on his shoulders in a way that he hadn't since he was acquired by the Pace

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