danny

[ryan nelson]

Without rehashing my arguments (danny's 3 plans in 4 years and throwing
spaghetti against the wall until something stuck, to which I give him
credit for the constant throwing), I agree with what Sean said below.

rmn

-----Original Message-----
From: celtics-bounces at igtc.com [mailto:celtics-bounces at igtc.com] On
Behalf Of Sean Giovanello
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 8:06 PM
To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List
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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