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[Frederick Hurley]

On Mon, December 4, 2006 11:10 am, HRBlaine at aol.com wrote:
> 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.


Was the sporadic profanity really called for?  You can play the Coulda
Drafted game with literally any GM, and have them look stupid by
comparison.  It's an old, tired game played by people with nothing else to
do besides pick nits.