Is Danny totally to blame?

[Sean Giovanello]

I think a lot of blame can be pinned on Ainge for the following reasons:

1.  He assembled a roster loaded with young players and continued a thread
of choosing young unproven players to fill out his roster instead of
veterans.
2.  Even with Pierce playing, this team was not good and did not appear
"championship driven."
3.  Are you surprised that Wally has been hurt?  The guy has a chronic knee
condition - he is always going to be hurt.  Very few GMs would trade for him
with that knee and that contract and his performance in Boston has likely
reduced to that 0 GMs.
4.  Sebastian Telfair is not very good.  Danny traded a lottery pick for him
(I know we get out of a year of Raef and that Theo's contract is insured
which allows the owners to not pay out that money).  He appears to be the
third PG on this team and deservedly so.  I do not think he has much, if
any, trade value.
5.  If your are well into your rebuilding program and your team is now
tanking for the lottery in what was supposed to be a season of improvement
well the sands of time for you are running low.

I think the problem for Danny is that he has had a number of years to turn
this around and...the team is now a laughingstock.  It has set the Celtic
record for consecutive losses and is being mocked on ESPN for how bad it is
as they countdown 9 more to go until the Celts get the longest losing streak
in league history.  Danny took over a marginal team and has not improved
it.  I think that a reasonable person would say that we have generally been
one of the worse teams in the league in his tenure.  How long does a GM get
to turn it around?

On 2/7/07, Ryan Lee <rlee_at_channing at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>    I haven't posted in a while since the celts have not given me much
> reason to discuss them but as an avid AM sports radio listener, it's amusing
> how a significant amount of callers pin all of this season's woes on Danny
> Ainge.  When the franchise player is injured as well as the "#2"(notice the
> quotes) player, Wally, and the rest of the team is entirely made up of 1 or
> 2 year players, how can anyone really pin this season on Danny?  Put it this
> way, if Cleveland were to lose Lebron to injury all season or the Lakers to
> lose both Kobe and Odom, how would either of those teams fare?  I don't
> care who's the coach, nobody can win with a team of secondary players
> (except maybe Jerry Sloan).  Do I think Danny is the right one for the
> job?  No, not really but I know enough to see it was injuries and bad luck
> that derailed this season and not so much his bizarre managerial moves.
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>    I keep hearing about this college kid Kevin Durant being the best
> college player in the last 10 years and how he should go higher than Greg
> Odin.  Anyone ever seen this guy play?
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