I don't want him fired, and I know I'm in the minority, but I do disagree with retooling and not rebuilding this year.
I would of been okay to suck this year and go for a shot at Nerlens Noel. I realize that is a long shot, but let's face it. This isn't LA or Miami, we are going to have a rough period at some point. Because I really doubt Ainge can pull off a KG like trade again, and even that took us being turrrrible.
Would you have been ok if we didn't win the lottery and still sucked 5 years from now.
Yes, I'm admitting that we/I/Celtics are going to have to suck for a while to get good again. It's just the natural order of things. And since I didn't see us winning it this year(unless lucky injuries happen to other teams) I was ready to start the long and crappy process of rebuilding.
In my opinion it came down to not willing to delay the rebuilding in the hope that other teams have injuries.
There's a lot of "right time, right place" to sucking and rebuilding. rebuilding through sucking means getting a top pick (or picks) when impact players are available in the draft. The spot you get in the draft is based (aside from how the ping pong balls go) by your record the year before, not what you do in the years before that. Getting bad sooner rather than later might not speed up the rebuild, it's just as likely to merely prolong it.
I agree that being bad doesn't automaticly give you a franchise guy, but I was willing to take the chance at landing that player sooner rather than later, than to try and win a title with this team. I think we would of had a much much much better chance at Nerlens Noel(who I think is a franchise guy) than winning a title.
I also would like to note that I find it funny that Ainge criticized Red for keeping the big 3 together, and yet never pulled off a trade involving Ray and let him walk for nothing. And then extended the "Window" by bringing back KG.
That is so nice of you to be willing to take that risk. Are you also the one investing millions of dollars in the team? Because that plays a role in this too, and it is a pretty big risk, when you know you are going to struggle to fill seats, without a very high probability of payoff.
As far as "criticizing Red", I think a lot of people twist the story with that. Ainge criticized Red for passing on a couple specific trades, that he believed would have helped extend the window of the team, that Red passed on because of his loyalty to Bird and McHale. Danny claims (and I believe him) that he has not had any offers close to what Red turned down.