Jordan Crawford is dreaming big, really big
On the bio section of his Twitter account, @jcraw55, Jordan Crawford mentions a very audacious ambition: “On A Mission to become the GREATEST!!!!!! WHY NOT?”
Seems like an decent motivational tool. Dream big, achieve big.
When asked to elaborate on that statement last month at the Impact Basketball Competitive Training Series in Las Vegas, Crawford explained how he believes Jordan will go down as the greatest to play the game — just not the Jordan you would expect.
“I don’t tell nobody, but I feel like I can be better than Michael Jordan,” Crawford said, without the slightest hint of sarcasm. “When I’m done playing, I don’t want people to say, Michael Jordan is the best player. I want that to be me. That’s how I am. That’s how I was built.”
Um, what? You realize people will look at you sideways and think you’re crazy for saying that, right?
“Yeah, I know that, I definitely know that. But I’m not settling for anything less,” Crawford said. “I feel like I’m better than him, anyway. My mom is going to say I’m better than him.”
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“When I talk trash on the court, it’s not to talk trash and make the other player mad,” he said. “If you talk trash, then you got to play good, because you’ve got to back it up and that’s how I approach it. If I say I’m better than that person and I’m not, that edge is going to help me out. That helps me check people. I want to intimidate people before they come at me. I want to always be attacking.”
Crawford said teammate John Wall has a similar mind-set whenever he steps on the floor. Wall recently said that he wants to go down as the best point guard to ever play the game.
“John got the attitude that he’s the best all the time. When you’re around those people all the time, it’s going to rub off,” Crawford said. “Because in practice, if John Wall talks [trash] to Nick, Nick ain’t going to allow that, Nick’s going to come back at him. Once everybody get that installed in them, get that anger and that hatred in practice, it can all come together.”
