Chris Ryan

But Vijay is also a lot of fun and you can tell how much the other guys are keyed off of him.

I think it honestly like, you know, Embiid is obviously up and down in terms of his physical health.

But I feel like guys like Vijay have like revived Embiid's, I don't know, like love of the game, frankly.

So this one is more weighted towards the beginning of the season, the first half of the season, because this post-All-Star break and the last couple weeks have been trending in the wrong direction for Derek Queen.

But I will stand up for the multiplicity of play styles in this league.

And I don't want to see everybody be 6'9", able to shoot, staying out of the lane, doing exactly the same thing.

I hate the hegemony, and I love...

Do we ever decide, is it Cajun Jokic?

Is it Dairy Queen?

Do we ever give him a nickname?

I like he's pretty good.

He has since been benched for DeAndre Jordan.

So it's not it's not looking great with my my Dairy Queen holdings.

But for those brief, glorious weeks and months in the beginning part of the season where he was just basically playing YMCA pickup basketball against NBA players and winning.

winning individual battles, not necessarily Pelicans games.

I just loved it.

I love his court vision as a big man and I love his ball handling and he's just such an interesting player to watch because it shouldn't work and it does.

That's his edge going a little bit too.

I also enjoyed him last night is the only real like Celtics like highlight of last night's game against the Hornets.

I didn't.