CelticTillDeath wrote:Ironically enough, just a couple days ago on the felger and Mazz radio show on 98.5 the sports hub, they were actually talking about how ainge gets the biggest pass out of any gm in the Boston area. They kept harping on the fact that he has 1 championship in his 15 seasons as the Celtics gm, and how if that were the case for the patriots, bruins, or Red Sox gm then they would be crucified.
Clearly they weren’t taking injuries into account. If KG never goes down in 09, then your looking at a potential 3-peat from 08-10. We were far and away the best team in the league in 09 before KG went down, and in ‘10 if KG was never compromised with that knee injury from the previous season then there is no way that finals series even gets to 7 games, let alone the Celtics losing in 7.
People tend to forget that Ainge has now successfully (or pretty close to it) completed two separate rebuilds. When he first got here he took over an absolute mess, and he always said he had a 5 year plan to turn things around. Surer then the sky is blue, that 5th year resulted in us getting KG, Ray, and banner 17. When that core broke down, Danny then pulled off arguably the biggest highest of all time which has now set the team up for finals contention yet again, but with a significantly younger core. Not to mention the fact that Danny still has an array of high valued assets he can use to better this current team even further.
So clearly those radio guys are meat heads in every sense of the word. How many times have we ever said Danny lost a trade? He’s arguably the best “trader” GM in the league. He’s also the first Celtics GM that convinced TWO max free agents to sign here. The franchise had previously struck out every other time in that regard. Danny has made the Celtics a destination spot. Even drafting, the wherewithal to take brown at 3, trade down to 3 for Tatum, the supposed reach for rozier at 15, the trade for rondo at 21, even drafting smart where he did. I know some will point to the JR Giddens and JuJuan Johnson picks at the end of the first round during the big 3 era, but late first rounders are always a gamble. Basically, danny really hasn’t done much wrong in his tenure as the Celtics GM.
I couldn’t agree more that Felger and Mazz are meatheads. What I really don’t like about them is their actually pride at not knowing a lot about the league because of what they think of the players as a whole.
I think Danny is the best. To me, Danny is by far the most important part of the organization. Even if the celts hypothetically lost Stevens for whatever made up reason, I would have faith Danny would pick the very next best guy for the job.Ainge is by far my favorite Celtic ever so I have quite a bias here.
I do think trading Perk, and not resigning Posey were mistakes. My opinion ( not saying I’m right). I know he regrets Tony Allen and he may be right. I’ve always given him a pass on that one. Tony was a bench warmer in 08 despite his great d. I myself didn’t see Tony being that important to a team as he became with Memphis.
Another one would be signing Scal.I think he was lazy in the off seasons, never improving his physique over the years. That just happens to be a big peeve of mine with some professional athletes.
But that list of moves is really amazing.I hope Danny wishes to stay on the job for a loooong time because it’s hard for me to imagine anyone doing the job anywhere close to how he has done it. Amazing.
Every time I head there, you typically have a new post and warning from the mods there. You might want to ease up on the gloating man, don't want to lose you to Banland
there is truly no hope