danny

[dforant1]

Kiss the ground he walks on. No one cares the circuitous route he took. 
We're here. It's on his watch. It should be indelibly etched into your mind. 
Did he predict a 5 year build?




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Giovanello" <giovanello at gmail.com>
To: "The Boston Celtics Mailing List" <celtics at igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: Re: danny


>I don't think Danny knew what he was going as he drove the team into the
> ground and I don't think he knew there was a Garnett at the end of the
> rainbow.  It worked out and he will reap all the accolades for it, but I
> think its a grave mistake to think this was anything other than like 
> someone
> winning t he lottery.
>
> On Dec 3, 2007 7:27 PM, dforant1 <dforant1 at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 IMailing 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!
>> >
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