Siakam credited much of the team’s success to his former head coach, Nick Nurse, who won the NBA’s coach of the year the following season. “He would just come one day and just introduce something like the day before the game, and we would do it during the game. Just little things like that, I’d never really seen… like [the strategy of bringing in an extra player to defend on the] strong side corner. Most coaches always told me you’re not supposed to do that. We did a lot of things that a lot of people didn’t do back then. Credit to [my teammates], we [had] a lot of smart guys.”