We really should fire Danny Ainge

[Fafnir]

Danny's got a job till he's ready to be done is my read on the situation.

The Lakers have already rebuilt comment cracks me up though. The C's have made the playoffs every year but one since their rebuild and made the ECF twice! The Lakers sucked for 6 straight years!

[pearljammer10]

What a joke.

[BudweiserCeltic]

This thread is... laughable. Moving on.

[GetLucky]

Yeah, I really hate being a top-4 team in the conference after an all-NBA point guard and an all-star center leave, too.

[droopdog7]

Had to open the thread just to make sure the OP was serious.  Apparently, he was.  Wow.

[Celtics4ever]

Lakers have already rebuilt and come next year the team you fleeced will also feature higher top end talent than the C's in shorter rebuild times.

Nets have two injury prone guys and one of them may never be the same.   I also think their chemistry tanks when those two return.

Lakers have an aging star and injury prone Davis.

I think Brown and Tatum took good leaps this year forward and who is to say that won't again.

[SHAQATTACK]

Lakers have already rebuilt and come next year the team you fleeced will also feature higher top end talent than the C's in shorter rebuild times.

Nets have two injury prone guys and one of them may never be the same.   I also think their chemistry tanks when those two return.

Lakers have an aging star and injury prone Davis.

I think Brown and Tatum took good leaps this year forward and who is to say that won't again.

luv the optimism

[Csfan1984]

Lakers have already rebuilt and come next year the team you fleeced will also feature higher top end talent than the C's in shorter rebuild times.

Nets have two injury prone guys and one of them may never be the same.   I also think their chemistry tanks when those two return.

Lakers have an aging star and injury prone Davis.

I think Brown and Tatum took good leaps this year forward and who is to say that won't again.

And the irony is that reply only adds to the argument in support of DA maybe needing to step down as DA's plan was KD, then it changed and went to Irving and Davis. You are knocking the very messiahs DA was going after. How long do we keep this blind support going with all the excuses? When do we stop the bashing of players who turned us down and say, DA tried hard for that guy?

DA isn't horrible but the results show he is not great either. One chip and only two final appearances in 16 years is not up to C's expectations. We currently have zero top 20 players, very unreliable future picks and no foreseeable cap space. This is why I said depending on trade deadline I would think long and hard about DA if I was ownership.

[NKY fan]

Lakers have already rebuilt and come next year the team you fleeced will also feature higher top end talent than the C's in shorter rebuild times.

Nets have two injury prone guys and one of them may never be the same.   I also think their chemistry tanks when those two return.

Lakers have an aging star and injury prone Davis.

I think Brown and Tatum took good leaps this year forward and who is to say that won't again.

And the irony is that reply only adds to the argument in support of DA maybe needing to step down as DA's plan was KD, then it changed and went to Irving and Davis. You are knocking the very messiahs DA was going after. How long do we keep this blind support going with all the excuses? When do we stop the bashing of players who turned us down and say, DA tried hard for that guy?

DA isn't horrible but the results show he is not great either. One chip and only two final appearances in 16 years is not up to C's expectations. We currently have zero top 20 players, very unreliable future picks and no foreseeable cap space. This is why I said depending on trade deadline I would think long and hard about DA if I was ownership.

Dude,
70% of Celtics fans believe that Langford is a future all star and that timelord is going to be a defensive player of the year. They were also convinced that James young and Jordan Mickey were going to be stars.
As long as the draft picks keep coming and we have 4 rookies every year ... and Stevens gets his collection of underdogs to overachieve the vast majority of fans will support Ainge

[Moranis]

Lakers have already rebuilt and come next year the team you fleeced will also feature higher top end talent than the C's in shorter rebuild times.

Nets have two injury prone guys and one of them may never be the same.   I also think their chemistry tanks when those two return.

Lakers have an aging star and injury prone Davis.

I think Brown and Tatum took good leaps this year forward and who is to say that won't again.

And the irony is that reply only adds to the argument in support of DA maybe needing to step down as DA's plan was KD, then it changed and went to Irving and Davis. You are knocking the very messiahs DA was going after. How long do we keep this blind support going with all the excuses? When do we stop the bashing of players who turned us down and say, DA tried hard for that guy?

DA isn't horrible but the results show he is not great either. One chip and only two final appearances in 16 years is not up to C's expectations. We currently have zero top 20 players, very unreliable future picks and no foreseeable cap space. This is why I said depending on trade deadline I would think long and hard about DA if I was ownership.

Dude,
70% of Celtics fans believe that Langford is a future all star and that timelord is going to be a defensive player of the year. They were also convinced that James young and Jordan Mickey were going to be stars.
As long as the draft picks keep coming and we have 4 rookies every year ... and Stevens gets his collection of underdogs to overachieve the vast majority of fans will support Ainge

What you mean a team with 5 rookies and 2 more players in their 2nd year (not counting the 2-way players) isn't going to contend?  Especially adding in 3 more players in their 3rd year.  And of those 10 players only 1 was a top 10 pick.

Ainge has continued to treat the team like it is rebuilding but while also trying to win and he has continued to diminish both paths by doing so.  He had needed to pick a direction for years, but he just doesn't seem capable of doing it.

[Celtics4ever]

luv the optimism

I live in Ohio not Title Town and I don't have an expect a title every year or fire the mentality that many from Boston possess.   That being said the Celtics have always been my team and I hate the Cavs and LeBron.   I have no second teams and have enjoyed watching us good or bad.   Last year was rough, because we all knew the team was capable of more, though.

[NKY fan]

Lakers have already rebuilt and come next year the team you fleeced will also feature higher top end talent than the C's in shorter rebuild times.

Nets have two injury prone guys and one of them may never be the same.   I also think their chemistry tanks when those two return.

Lakers have an aging star and injury prone Davis.

I think Brown and Tatum took good leaps this year forward and who is to say that won't again.

And the irony is that reply only adds to the argument in support of DA maybe needing to step down as DA's plan was KD, then it changed and went to Irving and Davis. You are knocking the very messiahs DA was going after. How long do we keep this blind support going with all the excuses? When do we stop the bashing of players who turned us down and say, DA tried hard for that guy?

DA isn't horrible but the results show he is not great either. One chip and only two final appearances in 16 years is not up to C's expectations. We currently have zero top 20 players, very unreliable future picks and no foreseeable cap space. This is why I said depending on trade deadline I would think long and hard about DA if I was ownership.

Dude,
70% of Celtics fans believe that Langford is a future all star and that timelord is going to be a defensive player of the year. They were also convinced that James young and Jordan Mickey were going to be stars.
As long as the draft picks keep coming and we have 4 rookies every year ... and Stevens gets his collection of underdogs to overachieve the vast majority of fans will support Ainge

What you mean a team with 5 rookies and 2 more players in their 2nd year (not counting the 2-way players) isn't going to contend?  Especially adding in 3 more players in their 3rd year.  And of those 10 players only 1 was a top 10 pick.

Ainge has continued to treat the team like it is rebuilding but while also trying to win and he has continued to diminish both paths by doing so.  He had needed to pick a direction for years, but he just doesn't seem capable of doing it.

I wonder if Danny has an ongoing bet with other long tenured GMs on who will make 100 draft choices first lol. He’s definitely made 50-60 choices so far in his career

[ederson]

I wonder if we were be talking about the great LAL plan had Davis destroyed his leg 8min in the season and Hayward hadn't

[NKY fan]

I wonder if we were be talking about the great LAL plan had Davis destroyed his leg 8min in the season and Hayward hadn't

good or bad luck is a big part of the equation.

[Moranis]

I wonder if we were be talking about the great LAL plan had Davis destroyed his leg 8min in the season and Hayward hadn't

I think the problems you saw last year with the roster would have had been there that first season had Hayward not gotten hurt.  In addition, I don't think Brown or Tatum is as good today if that injury hadn't happened either.  The reality is the roster was set up poorly and was bound to have the same issues.  I really don't think Hayward missing time and struggling to come back was the cause, it was quite simply the collection of players wouldn't have worked.