The difficult thing about Siakam fouling out two games in a row is that he's creating a clear template that the way to most easily beat him is to go at him on the offensive end, get him into foul trouble, get him frustrated. Guaranteed a lot of teams are going to see if they can do the same, and there's no real answer for it except for him just being better on D without fouling and not letting it get into his head.
The call that he fouled out on was definitely not a foul, but he took too many stupid fouls earlier in the game to put himself into danger there.
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