Let me start this by saying I am a fan of Ainge as a GM and do see the method to his madness, which in this case is being patient. The last thing I want Danny to do is go all Joe Dumars, and sign this year's equivalent of Charlie Villanueva and Ben Gordan, which Monroe and Harris would have likely been a slightly better version of, but by no means game changers.
However, the one thing I have never been able to pin point with Danny is why and when he/organization decides to release information, and it almost always seems like when he does release information, it typically backfires on him.
The best examples I have are:
David West - He was all but signed, Doc was even talking about it at a practice, and then it fell through.
JaVale McGee - Ainge went on radio and essentially declared it a done deal. It fell through.
2015 Draft - Ainge and the Celtics not only stated in interviews but tweeted out that they were trying to move up (now I get this from the stand point of letting people know you are ready to tango, but doesn't that totally blow your leverage as well?)
2015 Free Agency - Both Ainge and Celtics talked like we were going to make some serious moves but in reality the only two players of any real consequence that were going to make moves were Aldridge and Jordan (and Jordan is a question mark in my books). Love was a long shot at best. Everybody else falls into the aforementioned Villanueva/Gordan category. In the end, we didn't even make a play for any of those fringe guys anyway. Were they that convinced that Love would come to Boston?
I don't count the Wyc "fireworks" comment as anything because that has been blown (pun intended) way out of proportion.
Clearly Ainge/Celtics can keep things under wraps (see Perkins trade, Stevens signing, etc.) so I can't figure out why they keep putting things out there that end up not going as planned or completely dis-enchant the fanbase. Any ideas?