Re: Jackie Mac On The Attack

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Boston  Sports Press is as bad as the National Press in general. They
can't see past the snots on their fingertips. It's like they're part of the
problem of don't rock the boat crowd. Ainge must have known he'd be in for
this whipping. It doesn't seem to bother him. It's the end result that
counts, but no one holds the Press accountable down the road for their
miscues. Eventually they'll praise Ainge and forget the dumb articles they
wrote without any vision whatsoever. Do they ever get from behind their PC's
and go to games and watch the progress good or bad? Once they get in bed
with someone they never take the covers off. The White Press which is
Newspapers in print, is losing credibility because of the Internet where a
sane individual can find some honest consistency. No wonder Newspaper
subscriptions are way down throughout the industry.

March on Danny, sorry for the bad mouthing you about holding on to OB,
because it's never too late.

DanF


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <wayray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> (I think the plan is working fine. Next step is a good expansion and
regular draft.
> Perhaps a trade beforehand.)
>
> JACKIE MACMULLAN
> One has to wonder about plan
> By Jackie MacMullan, Globe Columnist, 1/29/2004
> When the new Celtics ownership group hired Danny Ainge as head of
basketball operations, I heartily applauded the move.
> ADVERTISEMENT document.write('');
> "You'll love him," I told anyone who would listen. "He will be fearless."
> Somewhere along the way, fearless turned into reckless.
> You wonder where Ainge is taking the Celtics. You wonder how the team Jim
O'Brien helped methodically rebuild from the ashes of Rick Pitino's whims
could be torched again so swiftly, easily, and definitively.
> You wonder what Ainge is thinking, because when Jim O'Brien quits on you,
you've got problems.
> Ainge forgot to listen to his coach. Even worse, he forgot to respect him.
In the basketball hierarchy, it was understood Ainge's name would appear one
line above O'Brien's, but the very best managers find a common plane where
the front office and the coach can exist comfortably and work together.
O'Brien quickly learned his input was welcome, but not weighty. In the end,
what he had worked so hard to create was not valued enough by his new boss.
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