Jamal Crawford
Jamal Crawford
Aaron Jamal Crawfordis an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association. Crawford played his high school basketball for Rainier Beach High School, a basketball powerhouse in Seattle, before committing to play for the University of Michigan. Crawford was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers but was traded on draft day to the Chicago Bulls. In his career, he has also played for the New York Knicks, Golden State Warriors, Atlanta Hawks and Portland Trail...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth20 March 1980
CitySeattle, WA
I think when he yelled at Nate (Robinson), that's when I knew he was back to being coach.
For whatever reason, I'm really, really focused in the fourth quarter. I know that's winning time. My teammates put me in great positions, and Coach has a lot of confidence in me.
I can't really say I've seen him show signs of stress because he's never really stopped coaching us.
There was a lot built up, all those cameras out there when he walked out. I'm sure that can get to anybody. But he handled it really well and he played it cool, and he never stopped coaching us.
Coach didn't want to call a timeout so they could set up their defense. Then it was up to me. I knew I was shooting the ball.
I kind of got Chauncey with the cross over early. So I wanted to keep going straight without hesitating. My teammates did a great job of setting me up and coach drew up a great play. They did a great job of getting me open and I had the easy part of knocking down the shot.
It makes you put everything in perspective. Whatever the reason is we're crying about playing time or whatever, it just makes you look at the big picture. His health is more important than trying to rush back and coach us.
The chemistry is getting better. We are getting used to the new guys out there. We're starting to execute what Coach wants. Ever since the Memphis game, we have taken off. We should be 4-0 but we lost the close one to Memphis and really we should have beaten Chicago.
That was embarrassing. We have to have a better effort than that.
It feels good. You hate to be in that position because we were up.
It feels good to get a win; this is just a start. But now all that pressure's off. Now we can just concentrate on playing.
We have lost some games earlier (this season) and guys have taken it to heart and are really working on it.
We could have easily given up and moved on with our lives. We all wanted to compete. That was embarrassing (in the first three quarters). Nobody wants to be embarrassed, so we had to get out there and play as hard as we can.
We could have easily given up and moved on with our lives. But we wanted to continue and keep playing. ... Nobody wants to be embarrassed.