danny

[dforant1]

I'd rather be lucky than good anytime :-))  Danny was born to be in the 
right place at the right time. So many others have also.

DanF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Giovanello" <giovanello at gmail.com>
To: "The Boston Celtics Mailing List" <celtics at igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: Re: danny


> Hey I am walking on air and give him credit for it, but I firmly believe
> that the difference between good and lucky can often be missed.
>
> On Dec 3, 2007 8:23 PM, dforant1 <dforant1 at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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