Redick and Crawford talk about Clippers loss to POR

https://art19.com/shows/vertical-jj-redick/episodes/d9b6db85-3d25-4711-82a7-0395fa11c5b9

Cool perspective from the other side. You don't imagine some of these guys actually breaking down and crying after losing.

 

Haven't listened and probably won't, but one thing on Jamal. He was absolutely killed by people on here and Blazers fans in general. Deserved or not, I can tell you that he is one of the coolest guys in the league I've ever dealt with. Straight up polite, well spoken and just a cool dude. I could see him calling games after he retires. Great speaker.

 

Crawford definitely didn't get a fair shake here in Portland.

 

You think he'll be on a different team next year with Austin Rivers showing promise as a 6th man?

 

FTFY


Nice guy, but he was disappointing while here.

 

Should everyone come back for another year I could see Crawford going to San Antonio to play.

 

Yeah he was a victim of the Feltdown his one year in POR. He would have been a great 6th man here, like he's been everywhere else, but when Roy suddenly announced his retirement, Nate's initial reaction was to try to make Jamal Crawford be Brandon Roy. When that didn't work, he tried to make him the backup PG (once it became obvious that both Jonny Flynn and Nolan Smith SUCKED).

That was a team full of underachievers. So, it's kind of a guilt by association thing. But Jamal is a Seattle guy and he'd never throw Nate under the bus the way Felton did. So, he took his lumps and quietly went on to a better situation. No hate from me on Jamal. There were plenty off other guys on that team that deserve it more than he does.

BNM

 

I was listening to Jamal give an interview before game 3 and he mentioned that during his time here a local writer wrote a pretty negative piece about him, and Jamal went to him to clear the air and explain himself, and the guy ended up publishing the piece anyways. That kind of soured his entire time here.

Anybody know what piece that was and who wrote it?

 

Not sure, but Dwight Jaynes fired a very negative tweet on the last night of the season about him winning the FT% title that year. Saying because he didn't play in the last game, is why he won the title. I replied that the reason he won it, was because he was the best god damned FT shooter in the league that year! Jamal came up to me and personally thanked me for standing up for him. He didn't like the local hack writers, deservedly so. Sensitive dude who is very aware of whats going on around him.

 

Probably one of the usual suspects. Canzano, Jaynes, etc.

I imagine Quick wasn't the guy. He likes being buddy buddy with the players. Canzano LOVES holding that power over them. I would put money on JC.

 

Well Jaynes is a moron.

I dunno, I quite liked Jamal when he was here. I wanted him traded at the deadline because he was obviously not going to be back, but he's really well spoken, and just seems like a cool dude. He definitely hated that year here though.

 

I remember he got the nickname Crawful while here. Blazer fans were a bit pissed about the Brandon Roy situation, getting Felton who sucked, and going back to the basement.

Crawford had the worst year of his career here. 31% from 3 42% from 2. That's pretty bad shooting. I know they were trying to play him at PG and he wasn't really comfortable with that.

 

My nephew was murdered while Crawford played here in Portland. I reached out to Jamal on Twitter just to see if he would give a shout out to my other nephew (his brother). Jamal actually responded and followed me on Twitter. We talked in direct messages back and forth for a few days, and he was so engaged, so sympathetic. He is a class act for sure.

 

I always liked Jamal...I didn't like what Nate tried to do with him in the rotation but I never got the hate. I wanted to keep him after the Canales era as a true 6 man...we paired him with...jiggle jiggle Raymond Felton that season and expected just what exactly? I'm with HCP on this guy.

 

Damn, sorry to hear that, man.

But that is really cool what Jamal did! He realizes the little things that can have a big impact!

 

I blame McMillan for the misplaced hatred of less insightful Blazer fans toward Crawford.

 

I can't remember the details, but it seems to me one of the writers that year implied that either Crawford or Felton was two-faced in the locker room. (and "stabbed Nate in the back") I thought it was Quick about Crawford, but I could be totally wrong. Anyone remember? I wonder if that was the article he was referring too.

 

Well I was curious so I googled and found this:

http://www.sportingnews.com/nba-new...-trail-blazers-raymond-felton-michael-beasley

And the quote:

 

NO! Not the Portland sports dicks? That's so unlike them.

 

When Oregonian hypocrites create a mountain out of a molehill, writing that a player (e.g. Camby) has stabbed Blazer management in the back, think of all the paper's back-stabbing in the past about GMs, and still in the present about the owner (e.g. Canzano wrote this season that Allen sucks).