Keith Parrish

I am now Jimmy Butler with a three-pointer.

And there's another comp for you.

Yeah, he's a Michael Jordan, Kawhi Michael Jordan type player, if you will.

So yeah, Cedric's been really fun.

He's really good.

I feel somewhat relieved that my infatuation with him two years ago wasn't totally off base.

He did look so promising the year the Grizzlies were horrible a couple of years ago.

The John Morant suspension season, probably the wheel of fandom landed on me several times that year and everything went horribly for the Grizzlies.

So he looked so good a couple years ago as a primary defensive stopper.

He was guarding Steph Curry and Luka Doncic and Kevin Durant.

This guy was the person they had to put on the other team's best player.

But he also was making good passes and offensive rebounds.

And he's getting deflections, steals.

And so he showed that.

And then last year, he just wasn't very good.

Maybe there was health issues.

He never totally got right.

And now...

being thrust into this starting point guard role.

We're seeing that again.