a lot of posturing going on. rondo is a very valuable player and will improve. does he have the drive of a michael jordan or a larry bird? not yet. but as a point. it is more important that he dishes, sets up, penetrates than scores. chaney took a while to fix up a shot and rondo needs to improve at the line. i would like to see him stay in front of his man much better than he does than any other improvement. and need i say, what a rebounder!

i’m not a big fan of airring dirty laundry on the radio, but Rondo DID get on EEI himself and say he hadn’t picked up a ball yest this offseason. in light of this, i don’t really have a problem with ainge’s comments.

at least everyone is wide awake now. time to come to the table and start talking…

I honestly think Rajon is the second best point guard in the NBA. I also think he’s the most “destructive” (bob ryan’s term) Celtics guard since DJ.

Still, We ain’t gonna win #18 as currently constituted.

Nothing happened last night. Doc and Danny say they “have an idea” of what they want to do in the free agent market, while the papers say they are “keeping their eyes” on Sheed. It seems to me a lot of the big deals are done by the time free agents become free. I’m not getting the feeling that we are being aggressive on that front.

If we fail to land a big name, the question is do we go with tier 2 or tier 3 free agents or make a trade or just resign our own people? If we strike out in free agency, I doubt our chances of scoring a coup via a 2-for-1 deal where we are getting to very good players in exchange for rondo or ray. Re-signing our own FAs without doing anything else is like resigning ourselves to another disappointing season.

So, like i said, I’m getting nervous.

definitely not a reason to trade him, but it does make it harder to be a good leader. I’m hoping Doc will be able to break down some of those walls and turn Rondo into the leader we all know he can be.

few things

rondo didnt interpret dannys comments the wrong way, or publically make stupid comments back = mature.

dont add stephon marbury to the roster and then start talking about rondos character, please.

bash someone who actually deserves it, like the guy getting death threats mid playoff series in which rondo is averaging a triple double.
best news on draft night was no news

Danny said Rondo needed to grow up a little. That isn’t bashing him. If you take what Danny said in its context, Danny was defending Rondo. The statement came about AFTER the trade rumors that Rondo was a lockerroom problem and the Celtics were afraid of his unyet made salary demands (pure speculation regarding what they would be), and that they were trying to move him. Danny came out to say that Boston was not looking to get younger and that while Rondo had issues they were not looking to deal him.
Most likely this all got started when more than one team in the lottery CALLED the Celtics to offer a package for Rondo (all of those teams up there NEED a PG – Sac, Min, Memphis . . .) Danny listened, but shot it down. The rumor got floated that Boston was looking to deal Rondo, or that in some way when Danny was just doing his job (listening to offers) that translated into that he was looking to deal Rondo and then it became a bad game of “let’s speculate why they would trade Rondo.” It’s all ludicrous.

Rondo is not going anywhere.

Celtic fans shouild be saving money for their Rasheed Wallace and Grant Hill jerseys. Steve Kerr just said on national television that Pheonix is a “team in transition” and that they were looking to get “good young players and assets.” Big Baby in a sign and trade for Grant Hill and possibly another larger deal.

It’s not what he said that caused the problem. It’s how “everyone else interpreted it” that caused the problem. Will we say a Romney/Ainge ticket in 2012?

talk about wasting 6 draft picks. that might be the all time stupidest draft by an NBA team. I can understand taking Flynn and Curry but Rubio and Flynn and then Lawson??? wow- what morons! I was sitting there laughing as Rubio realized he wasn’t going to sunny California but was going to play in the frozen tundra of Minnesota. Honestly, and no offense to Minnesotans etc but why is there even a basketball team there? No one wants to go there? Toronto is another joke even though it’s a lovely city. The NBA is so greedy that they don’t care where they stick these franchises. I don’t know of any team that has ever been successful with 2 rookie point guards . The knicks couldn’t do it with strickland and Jackson and the celts couldn’t do it with rondo and telfair and the twolves aren’t going to succeed with it either. It just doesn’t work

was drafted then traded. As far as Flynn and Rubio, it’s not like Minny’s going to win a title this year or next. Throw em out there to learn. As far as freebies (isn’t that an oxymoron) would you rather have Gortat or Rasheed? I could live with either one but I really want us to have some offensive firepower off the bench so we can rest PP and Ray more this year. Paul was dead tired by May and will be again next May if he has to carry the offense again.

What do Lester hudson and JR giddens have in common???

They are both older then Rajon Rondo….

has everyone forgotten this kids age?
hilarious stuff

was that Danny doesnt feel Rondo is a max player… and he’s right.

Constuctive criticism is obviously a useful tool in motivating certain individuals, hopefully Rondo is one of those types. Airing these criticisms on a radio talk show while floating numerous trade rumors is bad business. This is exactly the course of action that can result in resentment on the part of the player. The next thing you know the player is on the radio or t.v. himself firing back barbs at the team. If all that comes of this is Rondo’s agent stating on the radio that he didn’t appreciate the comments made by Ainge, then Ainge is lucky. Hopefully Danny, Doc, and Rajon can all sit down and have a good conversation, in private, and dicuss what each party expects of the other. Rondo is the future of this team and hopefully Danny realizes this. Otherwise all the C’s fans not wanting to keep Rondo may get thier wish. Just don’t be surprised when the rest of us tell you we told you so when Rondo goes on to be an perennial all-star.