I agree, Nick. Tony in very short, situational doses only.
The good news is we found a taker for Gerald Green, the dumbest NBA player I've ever seen. There's someone out there who will take Tony off our hands this summer.
I never in my life saw a situation where Danny was going to bring back Tony last year. That he did it and did it for a two year period is mind boggling to me. I just can't understand why the 2nd year wasn't a team option given Tony's injury history.
Just another of a long line of complaints I have with Danny Ainge since this team when game 6 of the Finals last year. I hope he can look in the mirror and realize what a poor job he did for this team this year and correct it by wrapping up Rondo and Baby to good contracts and moving some dead weight and using his MLE and LLE for good productive veteran role players that can and have given good production consistently for years and for years to come.
Yeah. The reason we have no bench falls on the heads of Danny and Grousbeck. When you look at each of the moves, though, there's an alarming common denominator: the cheapest move possible. With, of course, the exception of the inexplicable two-year investment in a guy who cannot think the game.
So, I wonder: Is the disaster that was last summer solely Ainge's fault? Might be. Might not be.
Whatever, the epitaph for this season is clear: We cannot do such a sloppy, penny-pinching, haphazard job rebuilding the devastation of this bench if we're serious about chasing another title. What the penny-pinching has done to Pierce's minutes borders on the criminal.
Perhaps we're not serious. The evidence one way or the other will surface soon after the season about the resources we're going to commit.
