How good is Danny Ainge?

[BballTim]

Totally disagree. Game 7 - and several others - were lost for lack of rebounds. Can't lay that on the Perkins injury, either. This was a poor rebounding team all season.

Good bench? Yeah, not bad. One rebounder short, however, of being good enough to win a title.

  We played 3 of the top 7 rebounding teams in the league last year in the playoffs and only got outrebounded by about 1/2 a rebound a game in the playoffs. That's not bad. We outrebounded the Lakers 3 times in the finals. It wasn't a fatal flaw.

  We got outrebounded by 6 in the first quarter of game 7 and were up 9. We got outrebounded by 6 in the 3rd quarter and they outscored us by 2. We got outrebounded 10-9 in the 4th quarter and were outscored by 8. It's not as simple as it seems.

  Also, I heard Danny say during the finals that the reason we were giving up so many offensive boards was that we were giving up too much penetration from the perimeter. The bigs would have to defend the rim, freeing up one of LA's bigs to get an easy rebound. Adding another rebounder to the roster wouldn't have solved that problem.

[ScoobyDoo]

Yo Nick, Damion James was the guy I thought, from his Bio, might be a nice fit behind Pierce at the three this year. Four year senior who might be able to give us 10-15 minute a night.

So I wanted James as well.

I don't know much about Bradley other than a few clips I've seen and the reports I've read on NBAdraft.net, etc...

You mentione you think he could be a very, very good pick for the long term.

What it his upside, what makes him special based on what you've seen of him?