danny

[dforant1]

I personally do give DA all the credit in the World. His hard, relentless 
searching ala Columbus paid off handsomely. End result surgery a tremendous 
success.

DanF


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kim Malo" <kmalo17 at verizon.net>
To: "The Boston Celtics Mailing List" <celtics at igtc.com>; "The Boston 
Celtics Mailing List" <celtics at igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: Re: danny


> 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!
>
> _______________________________________________
> The Boston Celtics Mailing List
> celtics at igtc.com
> http://www.igtc.com/mailman/listinfo/celtics