Re: Ange WEEI Comments Today

[Douglas342@xxxxxxx]

   I'm sorry, but this is a cheap shot.  Of COURSE the team has to get lucky.  It has to get lucky and find a Pierce at #10 and a Hunter at #56; it has to have enough luck to avoid repeat of Bias death.  Is luck all there is to it?  Of course not.  I hoipe this was a tongue-in-cheek comment, because to reduce Ainge's comments (which are about as candid and murky as one can expect from a sports exec) to "I plan to get lucky" is facile and a disservice to Ainge and to us.  
    If this was tongue-in-cheek, then I apologize.  I'm just getting too spoiled by the level of discussion on this list to let the comment slide.

In a message dated 3/2/2004 4:21:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, vzd1s1hb@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

>  BS: Paul Pierce sticking around for retooling?
> >  A: Paul Pierce has a challenge ahead of him, play hard every night, teach
> other players
> > how to win, very difficult; players live in the moment.
> > A; New Coach huge asset to recruit player.
> > BS: How do you without having a top 1, 2, 3 players turn things around
> > A; Have to get lucky; cites other factors.
> > A; I believe our owners, when time is right, will pay to get us over the
> top
> > Cap Wise, we have restraints
> > BS: You need to go out in the draft this year, and have to find the next
> great
> > guy, top  5 or 10 player down the line.
> > A; No other way than the draft
> > A; No way to put a time frame on becoming an elite team in the NBA
> > A; You have to get lucky
> > A; Competetive and entertaining
> > A; Some difference between 8 and 15
> > A: By next year, a 40 - 45 win team and a more 
> entertaining
> 
> Now we see what Danny's big plan is. It's to get lucky.