Danny

[Peter Delevett]

Extremely well said, Sean. 


>>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?



 
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