Klay could actually find peace within himself if he embraces the 6th man role. For his and our sake, I hope that’s the case.
akkaneko11
I’ll save y’all a click, and add in the last bit that I liked from the article but they edited out:
I actually reached out to Klay,” Crawford told Green. “I reach out to people all the time, but I reached out to Klay before he came off the bench. And I’m like, because we talked about it on TV and everybody’s like trying to bury Klay, I’m like he still averages 17 points. I said the fight is with himself because he’s been so legendary for so long. 17 points on a great team is great. Klay’s battle is that and obviously the injuries and everything.”
Crawford’s message to Thompson is simple and he believes the new role actually can benefit the 34-year-old and give him new life.
“But with him, I’ll tell him embrace it,” Crawford said. “It can give him a whole different wind. We don’t see legendary players like that, Manu [Ginóbili] we talked about, but legendary, legendary guys like that who have had four-time champions averaging 17, coming off the bench. Now you’re seeing second unit guys, now you’re the focal point of the offense. It gets you in a rhythm. Forget the off the bench or starting, you’re going to have better numbers doing this than you would as you’re doing it right now.
“And you may have more fun. And that’s what I told him in the message, like ‘Bro have fun.’ At the end of the day, have fun, enjoy this s–t, because I’m here to tell you on the other side of it now, it don’t last forever. You don’t want to look back with regrets. And he’s earned that right- a lot of players never earn that right. You’ve earned that right. Enjoy it, embrace it and have fun.”
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Dude yes
klizmik
I love me some Jamal Crawford. Averaged like 20 for us one year, with 0 defense played. That can be modern day Klay off the bench if he takes Jamal’s advice to heart and tbh it was pretty good advice
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Klay could actually find peace within himself if he embraces the 6th man role. For his and our sake, I hope that’s the case.
I’ll save y’all a click, and add in the last bit that I liked from the article but they edited out:
I actually reached out to Klay,” Crawford told Green. “I reach out to people all the time, but I reached out to Klay before he came off the bench. And I’m like, because we talked about it on TV and everybody’s like trying to bury Klay, I’m like he still averages 17 points. I said the fight is with himself because he’s been so legendary for so long. 17 points on a great team is great. Klay’s battle is that and obviously the injuries and everything.”
Crawford’s message to Thompson is simple and he believes the new role actually can benefit the 34-year-old and give him new life.
“But with him, I’ll tell him embrace it,” Crawford said. “It can give him a whole different wind. We don’t see legendary players like that, Manu [Ginóbili] we talked about, but legendary, legendary guys like that who have had four-time champions averaging 17, coming off the bench. Now you’re seeing second unit guys, now you’re the focal point of the offense. It gets you in a rhythm. Forget the off the bench or starting, you’re going to have better numbers doing this than you would as you’re doing it right now.
“And you may have more fun. And that’s what I told him in the message, like ‘Bro have fun.’ At the end of the day, have fun, enjoy this s–t, because I’m here to tell you on the other side of it now, it don’t last forever. You don’t want to look back with regrets. And he’s earned that right- a lot of players never earn that right. You’ve earned that right. Enjoy it, embrace it and have fun.”
Dude yes
I love me some Jamal Crawford. Averaged like 20 for us one year, with 0 defense played. That can be modern day Klay off the bench if he takes Jamal’s advice to heart and tbh it was pretty good advice
Wish he won a ring for real.