Keith Parrish

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.

He's making those hustle effort plays.

He's just a fluid player where he's making the right pass.

He's attacking closeouts when he needs to.

And so you've seen this like

bright spot in the grizzly season so far where all of a sudden this guy has been super promising he also started the season on an unbelievable heater from the three-point line it was kind of funny because he comically could make nothing in the preseason and this is a guy who barely played division one basketball didn't play summer league because he was recovering from a shoulder issue he suffered last winter and then when the regular season started he's like oh i'm good