All right. We're joined once again by one of our friends from the All-NBA podcast at All

All-City. And of course, from ESPN and a member of the Big Five Hall of Fame after a story career at LaSalle. I'm Legler. How are you? How are you? How was your holiday? Hope you had a good Thanksgiving. Good. Good. So far. Hectic next couple of weeks, but good so far. Very good.

I got to get that last minute shopping in for Christmas.

Last minute.

I got to start that last minute shopping in for Christmas.

Last minute. I got to start my shopping early. All right. Anyway, it doesn't matter. We don't need to get into that. That's my own problem. All right. So we have obviously, Joel Embed's been coming back from that right knee soreness, a little bit of up and down play. I guess overall, you know, what have you seen from his play?

And are you more or less concerned about how he can fit with this squad? A little bit of up and down play. I guess overall, you know, what have you seen from his play?

And are you more or less concerned about how he can fit with this squad?

Probably, I don't think it's necessarily changed.

It's equally concerned.

It certainly hasn't been alleviated at all.

If anything, it's been a slight uptick and more concerned.

Because I'm just not sure at any point we're going to see the same Joel

and Bid that we've seen throughout the course of his career.

And if that's the case, what exactly is he going to be for this team?

Because he's going to gobb, still going to gobble up a lot of minutes.

He's going to touch the ball a ton when he's on the floor.

He's just not nearly the efficient player that he used to be. And they're going to touch the ball a ton when he's on the floor. He's just not nearly the efficient player that he used to be.

And like all the metrics across the board bear that out.

Look, the shooting stuff, when you're in and out of the lineup and you're playing

inconsistently and taking more nights off, and he's not doing, I'm sure, a whole lot on the off days i'm you know i'm

almost it's almost like that's what i kind of expect he's missed his last 14 threes over the last

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