Ainge Accepts Blame

If this was the Red Sox he wouldve been fired by now but since this is about a Boston team noone seems to give a damn about anymore he still has a job. Wonder if that will ever change ..

Sometimes, luck is better than skill… and luck also favors the prepared. Danny is both lucky and prepared. He may not make all the right decisions, but I’m hoping he’s lucky enough to get the job done… and make no mistake about it, building a title team involves a great deal of luck… with or without skill.

I think Danny only needs to get lucky three times – we already know one for sure.

1. Al Jefferson

.. number 2 might be Greg Oden or Kevin Durant… and number 3 might be Gerald Green or Rajon Rondo.. or maybe not. Right now, we have a cornerstone, Al is a player we can build around for the future.

AL&Paul are all stars now..slamdunk….Rondo will be a starter for a 55 win team but when?we need a player that helps make AL better or that’s just plan better than AL&PP…Durant is better and Oden would at least help AL day one if not be better…pick 3?? a crap shoot of unknown

we suck both by bad decisions and some by design…but in 5 yrs Danny has 3 playoffs with 1 division title..not good for us but a bunch of GM’s don’t even have that…one good move,draft/trade/FA we can win huge

Is this the year that Perk would have come out of college? And next year Jeff’s year? and another 3 for Raja? 2 more for Green? Have patience! And yes Oden would get a lot of layups courtesy of Jeff…and if they DON’T double-team Jeff – Heh. And my man Hibbard will be there at number 3 if the ppong balls dont bounce right.

Forget the record. Is this team not a better one than the team Ainge took over? Does it not have more upside than that team? With that team there was no hope. With this team plus some moves there is.

Danny has 2 stars-PP&AL….a nice 40min point in Rondo…a nice bench-West,Perk,Gomes,Wally,Theo(if healthy)…Danny needs another player which 1 or 2 gives him May 22nd…pick 3-5???that’ll test his skill

Hey Wilt: Someone on this blog finally uttered the name Hibbert. Personally I would like to see us get Durant, but Hibbert at 3, 4, 5 looks good to me. The work a deal with Phoenix for one of their 4 picks and see if we can’t get some help for Rondo.

“But when those voices are telling him that, absent major and quantifiable progress, his tenure could be an issue, he might want to listen just a little.”

Pure and simple arrogance. The fans and media have no clue about who’s available, how to make a trade, the restrictions/obstacles you deal with when making a trade. To suggest that they have any power of Ainge’s job is ridiculous, and they shouldn’t. Just witnessing the reactionary drama queens that post on this board all the time the first time Al got injured and didn’t live up to expectation he would have been traded off. 90% of this board was screaming for his blood this time last season calling him soft, a bust, etc etc. If the typical Celtics fan is represented by the posters on this board we need to be thankful everyday that Danny Ainge runs this team and that his skin is thicker than Mark Cuban’s and the Maloof’s.

I wonder if Bulpett spent more than five minutes on this article. Talk about a pointless space filler. Any article that discusses DA’s tenure must mention the Telfair draft day trade and Bulpett doesn’t even mention it.

stillaceltsfan, trading Walker got the ball rolling. Maybe Raef wasn’t the best choice, but he may have been the only choice. Besides, Raef doesn’t play here anymore. I think Danny is making changes and treading water until he can make the change he really wants. None of the trades have hurt us, some made us better, some were lateral. You can argue about last year’s draft trade (7), but we did get Rondo who may turn out to be better than the 7 for this team. Danny didn’t do this lightly and all these guys tried out and even played against each other in tryouts. We don’t know the ins and outs of the Telfair deal, but it’s main point could have been to trade Raef’s contract for Theo’s and if Theo were healthy he might have helped us more than Raef. Telfair can easily be waived next year if need be. Telfair didn’t make us a worse team. If he worked out we’d all be saying how great Danny is. Still the fact is we did get Rondo and he could turn out to be best of all.

Sure, the Walker trade got the ball rolling: downhill at a rapid clip.

So, when is Ainge going to take responsibility for his coaching hires?

agree with Brick,Danny gets nowhere near the heat he deserves,unless Wyc forced him,for keeping O’B…..until we get a 50 win type roster and Doc fails,i’m hanging with him though

I’m perfectly winning to assign some of the blame to Grousbeck. Too bad he can’t be fired.

Say, where does the buck stop on this team, anyway?

If Ainge were caught red-handed with evidence that proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he was the leader of a plan to set off 5 nuclear bombs on American soil and kill millions, half the people here would say “I’m willing to give him one more chance, because I like the way he drafts players.”, and at least one would claim that it’s all part of a conspiracy by Stern.

Hello from Greece

I don’t know how it can be possible, but I that there is a way for DA to become a good GM.

How?

I have seen at recent posts (not sure if they were on celticsblog) that Mike Bibby and Rashard Lewis can opt out and be unrestricted free agents this summer.
If this is true, I think that it is not so hard to get them.
How?
The easiest way for me is via a sign and trade deal…
I think that if you send Ratlif and Tony Allen a pick to Sacramento, it would be easy to get Bibby

and

if you send Serbiak (lets say he is healthy enough and due to the fact he has only 2 years left in his contract makes him more tradeable, Gerald Green and Delonte West, why Seatle would say no to our offer?

And if we are lucky enough and get the pic that we dream… we are in a root for banner 17 (anything can happen with a starting line up of Bibby, Pierce, Lewis, Jefferson and Oden), if we stay healthy ;)

PS. I know that the whole thought might be absolutely idiot (for the reason that it is not possible to het a sign and trade with Seatlle and Sacto) but I had to “offer” my thoughts to the forum

To say that the Walker trade started the ball rolling downhill just doesn’t make sense, and neither for that matter does Bulpert’s article. It’s the typical grade school style of reporting found in the Herald.

The last part of the Walker to Dallas trade turned out to be Rajon Rondo by way of Jiri Welsch and the Cav’s pick which was dealt to Phoenix. Jason Terry would have been nice but at this point, with a rebuilding franchise, I’ll take Tony Allen and Rondo.