danny

[Kim Malo]

No he didn't. I don't buy the he fully knew what he was going all 
along idea just because it's worked in the end argument either, 
because it wasn't exactly a steady rise upward and there's no saying 
someone else might have avoided his mistakes and done it faster. 
While even the way it's worked into success doesn't match his 
original vision, which was all about offense and very little to do 
with the defense that is a big part of what makes us such a winner so fast.

But in fairness to Danny we were already a team whose loooong term 
spiral downward had only been slowed down for a temporary stop at 
mediocrity when we made the Easter conference finals with the Antoine 
and Paul show. And almost everyone acknowledged that that was not a 
team that was going to go anywhere but down without radical changes - 
they'd reached their upper limit and probably played better than they 
really were. While he did immediately make a change in direction that 
may not have made us a winner but at least gave us some youth and 
athleticism that might have the long term future the prior bunch 
certainly didn't. That didn't happen, for a bunch of reasons, from 
their all being too young together to lack of leadership to their 
probably being better as a collection of players than as a team. But 
you can't wholly blame Danny for the prior decline any more than I 
think he should get credit for knowing exactly what he was doing with 
every step along the way.

Kim

At 05:54 PM 12/3/2007, ryanmnelson at verizon.net wrote:
>He also took us into that poor house.
>
>rmn
>
>
> >From: steve knight <stevebknight at yahoo.com>
> >Date: 2007/12/03 Mon PM 04:28:19 CST
> >To: celtics at igtc.com
> >Subject: Re: danny
>
> >lost in all our success has been any acknowledgment
> >that danny did indeed know what he was doing all
> >along, collecting chips, then trading them for a T E A
> >M of players. and he hasn't crowed one bit.
> >
> >whatever you think of danny, you've got to admit he
> >took us from the poor house to the penthouse in just a
> >couple years with moves that took balls about the size
> >of...well, basketballs.
> >
> >in fact, i can't think of any team that's been down so
> >long being resurrected so fast. three cheers for
> >danny!