>>So a good candid, why doesn't he say these things in Boston interview by
>>Ainge.
As I've said before, Ainge was always very honest in his interviews in KC
about how much he hated watching the Celtics play.
I listen to 1510 on the web every once in a while ( I used to listen to WEEI
until they stopped their live feed), and I've never heard Ainge be quite so
honest with Boston stations or newspapers.
Well, yeah, but people have got to be kidding if they expect him to me more
candid than sincere in what he does say here. He knows the Boston press and
fans very well and is fairly smart. He knows the difference in saying
something here as Cs VP of basketball ops vs a national broadcaster, for a
start. And that includes the effect on the team of seeming to go out of his
way to publicly embarass them in their own house (yes, I know you may think
they deserve it but I'd prefer that he simply act to make them not deserve
it and will cut him some slack on the issue until it's more clear whether
that will happen). He knows what will happen in the Boston press if he
does, including but hardly limited to the inevitable carping about how he
said it to whom and why. He's also smart enough to know that word of what
he says in KC WILL make it back here without at least those favoritism
sorts of issues along with what saying it in Boston would mean about having
to make himself more available to all of the Boston media right now to
discuss it to play fair, etc. etc. Sorry, but I'll live with his being
sincere with what he does say, which is more credit than I give to most
public pronouncements.