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Afam wrote:Valid wrote:Afam wrote:With that statement, I'm done with Danny Ainge. He is full of excuses.
How is saying that he tried to trade up but couldn't but still liked the guys he drafted making "excuses?" What do you want him to say? "We had a miserable draft?"
It's because as a former Bruins fan, Peter chiarelli used to use that excuse all the time and it got him fired. The price was too high, it takes two to make a thread BS.
wetsthebed wrote:It's a little ridiculous that people are up in arms about who we took with the 45th pick. What's the success rate for 45th picks anyway?
Valid wrote:Afam wrote:Valid wrote:How is saying that he tried to trade up but couldn't but still liked the guys he drafted making "excuses?" What do you want him to say? "We had a miserable draft?"
It's because as a former Bruins fan, Peter chiarelli used to use that excuse all the time and it got him fired. The price was too high, it takes two to make a thread BS.
That's not an excuse, though.
OFWGKTA wrote:You're pessimism and world-is-ending philosophy when even the littlest of things go wrong or are even rumored to go wrong is too much sometimes. For example the "Lakers and Kings have framework for Cousins" news the other day had you spewing the same pessimistic **** when the very article that it was from stated the Kings were talking to other teams as well.
Afam wrote:Valid wrote:Afam wrote:
It's because as a former Bruins fan, Peter chiarelli used to use that excuse all the time and it got him fired. The price was too high, it takes two to make a thread BS.
That's not an excuse, though.
I meant a trade, and it's excuse making when you keep Bringing it up.
chakdaddy wrote:wetsthebed wrote:It's a little ridiculous that people are up in arms about who we took with the 45th pick. What's the success rate for 45th picks anyway?
General goddamned principle. Taking a guy that has NO chance of making the team over a guy with at least some potential. Kris Clack over Ginobili comes to mind. He might stay in Europe? So? Still no worse than Clack or a 6th string pg like Thornton. Wtf was the upside of Jr giddens. Since thinks he's a damn genius finding these diamonds in the rough who still only have the upside of a 12th man.
BannersOnly wrote:Captain_Caveman wrote:BannersOnly wrote:
Right on man. You are the best poster on this board. Period. We need more posters like you not less. You were 100 percent right and now it's time for people to eat it. Tough ****.
Funny part is, as much as I agree with you on a lot of things, I'm really not even that negative. Gave 100% support of everything Ainge did right up until the trade deadline.
But we **** up. And you are right, we have a team full of "ham and eggers". I still think Ainge is doing a good job, and glad he didn't panic tonight, but we are definitely on the verge of becoming a role player factory right now.
Unless two stars collude to take our cap room next week, we set ourselves back big-time the last few months IMO. And seriously, why would two stars collude to do that given their other options?
Tonight was quite possibly a very important crossroads for the direction of this team.
I hear ya. Us pro-tankers are every bit the fans as the anti guys. Maybe some of us, like myself, go too hard on the negative scale and ride Ainge too hard......but it's probably just to even out the over the top homerism of the Ainge apologists. He isn't a bad GM but he sure as hell isn't a great one either. The one flaw in his plan is he is banking on another team to flip him a star for his "assets" and totally ignoring the fact that the one thing he can control is his own draft pick and he has failed miserably at tanking correctly the last two seasons. Tired of the excuses. This roster is still too good to land a Top 5 pick next season and still too bad to sniff a run in the playoffs. No man's land. We are on the fn treadmill. Sick of the "rah rah" talk from the homers. Call it like it fn is.
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