Keith Parrish

And also there's the contrast of how the Grizzlies were playing this year to start the year.

And then when he started playing, they started winning some games.

And of course, there's a direct correlation between the strength of opponent, which is what Grizzlies fans were trying to parse out.

Like how much of this is we got to play bad teams versus the good teams early in the year.

But yeah, he seemed quicker, more confident, and maybe his teammates were just prioritizing him more.

And all that seemed like a change.

Jaron's play has been very concerning.

I think you look at the priority the franchise placed on locking him up with that renegotiate and extension, and some have argued, I have argued, that it seems like that was a long-term goal issue.

to make moves that maybe were harmful to certain seasons because they were so prioritizing this one offseason, we have to keep Jaron.

And then for them to move off of Desmond Bain, also in the offseason, focus on Ja and Jaron, to do all of that, and then to have Jaron come out this year and have his scoring be way low, his defensive impact has been...

very low not up to his normal standards so all that highly concerning i'm not totally sure what it's all about but like jaron not scoring like we've seen and not defending and causing havoc on defense like we've seen also his offensive fouls are at career high levels like what's going on maybe he should change the jersey number back to 13 number eight hasn't worked out so far

Oh, I don't have a comp that immediately comes to mind.

The things that popped out, I mean, noticeably when he started getting heavier run early in the season, you just could see like, oh, that guy's one of our best players.

And then there was many games where you're like, hey, this rookie is our best player in this game.

I think the fact that he's so fluid in getting to his mid-range shot, which I'm going to go and make the comp Michael Jordan-esque.

Getting to those nice 15, 17 footers and he goes up and makes them.

I mean, I know, I think Cedric himself wants to comp himself to Kawhi Leonard.

There's a body similarity.

There's a wingspan similarity.

But like Cedric Coward is a great rebounder.