Crawford switched attacks, facing Sinrich, who dribbled the ball from the back of his right hand to his left, followed by a jump that cleaned Sinridge's life, a jump that went down in history.
You can't have not seen this round, and a decade ago, when NBA highlights were very popular, Crawford's highlight was definitely included. Of course, this is just one of Crawford's many greatest collections.
One of my favorite moves for Crawford is that he played against the Jazz during his Knicks period, finishing dribbling on the back, jumping + going around the ball behind the basket at a very fast rate after facing Delon's illusion. Later, when he was on the Clippers, he also made such a move in front of the elder Miller.
Because of copyright reasons, it is unfortunate that I can't put these GIFs. But I'm sure a lot of people see this and already have images in their minds, and I've seen these collections of Crawford no less than a hundred times, and I've enjoyed them all the time.
No one doesn't like to watch Crawford play, and he's one of the most enjoyable players in NBA history. He's certainly not a top point guard, otherwise he wouldn't have drifted to so many teams. But if you want to talk about handsomeness, few people can compare with him.
Crawford played almost every round of crossover, several large shifts in a row. There are even rounds where he dribbles for the sake of dribbling, and does actions for the sake of doing the action.
We all know that playing to change direction is to create shooting or passing space, and Crawford simply likes to do these actions, if the ability to create shooting space alone, he should be the top one in history.
Crawford once said that he never practiced dribbling without cones and other things, and always did it casually. You may have heard some people say that the lower the center of gravity of the dribble, the better, but Crawford never deliberately lowered the center of gravity.
He shook the ball of the Green Army Ray Allen, three consecutive changes in the center of gravity is not too low, but the speed is extremely fast, crotch dribbling + back pulling ball + crotch pulling back, in one go. Now the average player can make fans exclaim by pulling the ball behind their backs, but Crawford is a set of combination punches.
It is estimated that many people have deliberately imitated Crawford's playing, but few people can completely imitate it, his ball sense is too anti-heavenly, the ball in his hand and his hand are no different, after all, few people have been shooting since the age of two.
Crawford is a Seattle native, and now he's become Seattle's basketball totem, preceded by Doug Christie, Payton, and others. Crawford's father said he had been playing ball since he was two years old, and when he was eight or nine years old, he went out shopping with his mother and sister, often imitating the dribbling movements of pedestrians, looking like a madman.
Because he liked to play too much, Crawford was not interested in reading since he was a child. Someone else's kid gets up in the morning and goes up early, pretends to go to school early, and then goes to play on a nearby court until it gets dark.
His mother couldn't control him, but Crawford just went out to play and didn't focus on anything else. To keep Crawford away from seattle's stadium, his mother sent him to Los Angeles to find his father.
But how could Crawford in Los Angeles sit back and learn, the streetball arena here is bigger than Seattle's. Gradually, Crawford became famous in the street ball circles of Los Angeles, and everyone knew this tall and dribbling young man.
Rumor has it that he also met Pierce in Los Angeles, who was about the same age as him, and Crawford bragged about his skills in front of Pierce, and Pierce was so angry that Crawford rolled back to school and didn't fool around here.
In high school, Crawford returned to Seattle to study (play) at Rainier Beach High School, where they won the state championship in their first year, and then Crawford began to get the attention of the college team.
After graduating from high school, Crawford moved to the University of Michigan, where he averaged 16.6 points, 2.8 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 1.1 steals per game as a starting point guard.
But Crawford, who was held in a for-profit amateur game, was banned six times for violating NCAA rules, but that didn't stop him from being selected to the NBA with the eighth pick in the 2000 draft.
The first stop was Chicago, when the Bulls had long since faded their dynastic aura, and none of Crawford's four seasons here had won 30. In the Bulls' final season, Crawford has averaged 17.3 points per game.
So he got a big seven-year, $56 million contract, and four years later, he still scored points in the Knicks, a basketball mecca, and averaged 20.6 points per game in his final year.
But Crawford isn't the kind of player who is very beneficial to the team's offense, and most of his scoring comes from singles, so the offense can easily stall. The Knicks sent him to the team that suited him best, the Golden State Warriors.
As a member of the running and bombing team, Crawford started 54 games and averaged 19.7 points per game, the second highest scoring average of his career. But Crawford and the Warriors had no connection, and he was sent to the Hawks after a season.
By this time he had been playing in the league for nine years, and he had shown his scoring ability, and of course brought the moves he learned on the street court to the NBA. He plays gorgeously, but one of the fatalities is that he never wins.
In nine years of his career, Crawford hasn't played a single playoff game. At the Hawks, because of the overlap with Joe Johnson, he began to play from the bench, but unexpectedly found that playing as a substitute seemed more suitable for Crawford's path.
Crawford played in 79 regular-season games throughout the season, shooting 44.9 percent from the field, averaging 18 points per game, ranking second on the team in scoring and first among the league's bench players. Of course, he won the first best sixth-man trophy.
What's more, he got his first taste of playoffs, which he did in a decade, 676 regular season games. He came from the bench to the court and scored the first time, taking the role of a substitute to the extreme.
Then on the Clippers, he again won two Best Sixth Man trophies, tied with Lou Wei as the player with the most Best Sixth Man awards in league history. In those years, when you think of the sixth man, you think of Crawford.
He always maintains a microwave-style feel, as long as the feel of playing is extremely hot, often without a few drops of sweat can bomb more than 20 points, greatly alleviating the scoring pressure of core players.
In April 2019, Crawford scored 51 points against the Lone Rangers, when he was 39 years old and 20 days old. In the 19-20 season, he signed with the Nets, completing his 20th season. Only 8 players can play 20 seasons, and Crawford is one of them.
He has also scored 50+ in four different teams, the first in history. In 2007, Crawford scored 52 points against the Heat, and in this game, Crawford once hit 16 consecutive goals, which is a miracle.
Of course, he was also the most four-point player in the league, and Crawford scored 60 four-pointers in his career, 55 from the regular season, but was surpassed by Harden a few years ago.
Crawford, who is two years away from the pitch today, officially announced his retirement, saying: "Goodbye to the arena I loved, goodbye to all the honours and achievements, goodbye to that adrenaline rush. Thank you basketball, you gave me everything.... ”
Bidding farewell to such a player who has accompanied you for many years in your youth is always mixed in your heart, as if part of the memory of youth is also sealed.
Throughout his career, Crawford has been active on the pitch like a bouncing elf, and this jump has been 20 years.