Those aren’t my words. They’re Jae Crowder’s. They were part of a heated exchange with Brad Stevens in January of 2015:
Boston dropped seven of its first eight games after Crowder came over from the Dallas Mavericks as what many deemed a throw-in to the Rajon Rondo blockbuster, and he was seething at all the losing. Then, one day at practice, he completely lost it.
“I went crazy,” admitted Crowder. “I lost my mind here. At practice, I pulled [coach] Brad [Stevens] to the side and asked him, ‘What are we trying to do here?