Re: Ainger Fails Again

["Sean Giovanello" <sgiovanello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

WOTR,
Given the nature of the NBA draft and the length of Ainge's tenure, you
cannot make the claims you just have.  Doing so either shows you have an
agenda or are just ignorant of basketball and the NBA (no offense, but its
one of the two).  To address a couple of your points:

1)  It was highly unlikely Malone was ever coming here.  He wants to win a
championship and stay out West.  Both of those work against the Celtics at
this point.  Was it wise for Danny to take a flier on him?  Sure.  Why not?
Nothing ventured nothing gained.

2) Banks versus Ridnour is a crapshoot at this point.  Only time will tell.

3)  Lampe versus Perkins is even more of a crapshoot.

4)  Lenny Cooke will probably not make the team or if he does be more than a
12th man.

5)  Ainge so far has my vote of confidence.  Anyone is better than the last
group of losers who ran this team.  Danny knows the game and seems to have a
plan.  Will he make mistakes?  Hell yeah - given the nature of the game and
human frailty, he surely will.  To cast this as another failure for a guy
who hasnt even had one NBA regular season game running this team so far is
doubly stupid...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Way Of The Ray" <wayray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <celtics@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 11:20 AM
Subject: Ainger Fails Again


> As Malone wisely heads to the Lakers to be on a true championship
> contender. Meanwhile, Ainge coming off a poor draft, where he
> chose Banks over the superior Ridnour (Ainge in three years time
> will cite this as one of his biggest mistakes) and Perkins over
> the better center prospect Lampe (costing the Knicks a net total of
> $4 million in luxury tax fees - a cheap bargain for a lottery pick).
>
> Hopefully the Lenny Cooke things works out, erasing some
> of the bad memories of Ainge extending O'Brien's contract
> and a continuance of system he despises.
> Ray