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[HRBlaine at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/4/2006 8:42:37 A.M. Eastern Standard  Time, Asterix 
writes: 
 
 
>Harry:  That's not really fair, it's just Monday morning  quarterbacking.  
 
Uhhh, yeah...and I'm the first person to ever do it on this list,  right?   
LOL 

>You get to take the  list of players taken after his pick and selctively 
choose only those that have  had some success.  To put it in perspective, why 
don't you list all the  duds that he >didn't pick but were taken by other  teams? 
 

 
Two comments: (1) I was quoting from someone else's post and (2) the dude  
who posted it listed all the duds Danny DID take.  WTF more do you  want?

>I think Ainge has done a better than average, though by no means  
outstanding, job picking >players.  
 
As the original poster pointed out (on JB's list), drafting high school  
players is a much bigger gamble than drafting college players.   Why?   Well, two 
reasons: first, college ball is more like NBA ball  than high school ball is 
and second, 1-2-3-4 years of college ball gives  you a much bigger sample of 
the player's ability.  Of course, Danny (with  the help of the Brain Doc) 
doesn't need that extra sample because he's such a  *great* drafter.  
 
I'm not an Ainge hater (as I've said many times "I loved him as a player  and 
was quite sorry to see him traded.") but he just not a good GM  IMO.  Yeah, 
hindsight is 20/20 but what do we have to go on except his  record?  And 
AFAICS, his record is pretty fing dismal.  But yeah,  that's hindsight all right.  
As the years go by with little or no  improvement, I wonder how long the owners 
are going to put up with Celtic  mediocrity.  
 
Harry 
guilty as charged