Is anyone else a bit bitter with Crawford's production with Clippers?

Nate's offense didn't bode well in the slightest for Crawford.

 

Crawford, Felton, Wallace, Camby....they were all unprofessional bums. Good riddance.

 

I like Crawford. Can't stand Felton though.

 

Fuck Crawford; that jackass froze out Batum for half the season.

Bless Crawford! Freezing out Batum made him look worse to the other GMs, so only Khan bid on him!

 

I was never in the hate Crawford camp. He was not part of the Felton, Camby, Wallace mutiny. He likes the NW, said good things about the city and fans, is generally a very nice and real person and most importantly did everything that was asked from him. He just had a poor shooting year in a very funky short season.

But he came here to be a 6th man who could provide instant offense and ended up asked to play the PG position. He tried, was bad at it and got hate for it and for shooting too much . .. but that is who Crawford is and is better than average at creating his own shot.

 

I remember he wouldn't pass the ball to Batum if you kidnapped his family and put a gun to his head. Fuck Crawchuck.

 

Ha, ha, I didn't see your post. LOL I almost mentioned it was Batum's contract year, too.

 

This

 

Ball hogs always, without exception, diminish the overall team performance. Crawchuck was the worst ball hog I have ever seen. I don't have the slightest idea if he's improved on that aspect this season, nor do I care. Good riddance.

 

Yep. He is shooting slightly better this season, but his PER is only 16.7, compared to 15.7 as a Blazer. I always wondered why people were complaining about him. His job was to be able to create his own shot off the bench, because the Blazers didn't have a player who could do that, even in the starting unit. This season, both Lillard and Batum are able to create offense off the dribble, and luckily they are much more rounded players than Crawford.

 

Crawford averaged 4.3 assists/36 minutes last year.

For comparison's sake, Matthews averaged 1.8/36 last year, and 2.6/36 this year.

I also never understood the 'ballhog' criticism.