Thanks for writing this as now I don't have to articulate it. I think this is a whole lot about a kid whose NBA dreams are dying on the court in real time and he knows it. That has got to be hard. That said, he can choose to come back to earth as a really good college player with some overseas coin ahead of him whenever he so chooses to do so. I hope he doesn't just decide to run off and do that next year in, say, Belgium, for $65,000, but he could. If he accepts his gifts and limitations as a player, then he can be a Greece/Turkey/Italy/France pro player for a decade and get to a place where he is earning mid 6-figures. For any college graduate looking at that possibility at age 26 or so, they are doing some things right.
But Crawford has got to accept that he is not turning into Russell Westbrook. He's Julius Hodge or LD Williams, which is fine. Free college and a pro career in a cool place. Go. Get it done. But you need to show some maturity NOW to even get to that.