The OP is another person who fails the marshmallow test.
Huh?
Don't even bother. It's the stupidest most condescending demonstration ever about how patience pays off.
Well here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX_oy9614HQ
He was suggesting that the people who hate what's happening here want instant gratification. The kind of people who would rather see us make the playoffs with the 8th seed than land a Top 5 pick.
Honestly, I think it's less "impatience" and more just ignorance. No fault of their own, a lot of people who hate what is happening here are just casual fans who don't follow the league closely enough. Frankly, they just don't understand how the league works. I'm not holding against them. I invest way too much of my personal time reading about NBA transactions. I'm definitely not looking down on being a casual fans who show up to games and cheer for their favorite players. I try explaining to my cousins in Boston why I love what's going on and they totally don't get it. You don't wear jerseys with your favorite pick protections and trade exceptions named on the back. They don't get it either. On the flip side, they can talk to me about the Patriots and I will not have a clue what they are talking about. Brady still plays there, right?
Unfortunately, a lot of these people seem to assume their favorite players just magically appear on the team. Like one day, "oh hey... this James Young kid looks good!"... Like he was gifted to us through some miracle virgin basketball birth. They don't realize that we got James young with the #17 pick. They don't realize that we got the #17 pick by trading KG and Pierce a year ago... one of several picks we received from that trade that are coming.
No, they just seem to think James Young fell from the sky. Like he was a walk-on for our D-league team and we decided to give the kid a crack at it.
The same people who would lose their mind over us moving Rondo and Green fail to acknowledge that we landed Rondo after the Suns drafted him with the #21 pick in 2006 and we traded a 2007 Cleveland pick for him (that we acquired in a previous trade).
Nope... Rondo just fell from the sky.
Same people losing their minds over Jeff Green probably don't understand that we received Jeff Green (this time around) by trading Kendrick Perkins for him... and that we received Kendrick Perkins after Memphis drafted him #27 and we traded for him on draft night.
Nope... Green was the result of virgin birth.
Or hey... how about the fact that we whiffed on the 2007 draft and ended up getting Jeff Green with the #5 pick, but salvaged the situation by moving Green for Ray Allen... and later moved Big Al (taken #15), Gerald Green (taken #18) and others for Kevin Garnett.
Nah... Kg just decided to show up one day and win us a title.
All their other current favorite players like Sully (taken #21), Smart (taken #6), Olynyk (taken #13), appeared magically as well.
Players enter the league through the draft. When you draft a guy in the 1st round, they are stuck on your team for at least 4 years at bargain prices. Ainge very smartly dumped dead weight and somehow acquired a ton of picks out of it. If someone you know doesn't see how this team is set up for incredible success long-term, they simply don't understand what's going on. It's going over their head. Trust me... this is awesome. Ainge is doing everything he can to set this team up long-term.
For folks like me who pay unreasonably close attention to this nonsense, we've been waiting for this since 2011. May 7, 2011 is when the Celtics stopped being a legitimate contender. It sounds absurb, but that was the day Shaq played his last game. From that point on, the Celtics lacked a legitimate center. We overachieved on an extended victory lap that lasted a while longer, but the rebuild was effectively in motion at that point. Where we are right now was inevitable. It took a little longer than I would have liked, but Ainge has done a fantastic job of laying the groundwork for the future. I do wish we had started sooner, but I'm rather pleased we finally got here.
I guess I give the average poster here a bit more credit than you do. Maybe casual fans on the street and idiots who post on Facebook don't know where James Young came from, but I'd be surprised if less than 95% of the frequent posters here know we got him with the Nets pick, and how we obtained the Nets pick(s). I know where every player on the roster came from, what picks are owed us(Green trade aside), and what our salary situation looks like. I have like, a 60 IQ. You seem to think people who don't like our current approach literally don't understand how the draft lottery works, that the better players tend to be at the top of it, or have any clue how an NBA roster is constructed. I disagree.
And your claim that we were doomed once Shaq went down strikes me as revisionist history. It's easy to say that now(since we haven't been to the finals the last few years), but KG played the 5 the second half of '11-12 at an all-star level. It may have been an easy road to the ECF with the Rose injury, but we still went 7 games and just came up a little short. I would liken characterizing that year as futile to saying they should have broken the Spurs up and traded Parker,Duncan, Ginobli back in '09-'10 after getting knocked off by the Suns. I don't fault Ainge for keeping the band together for as long as he did.
For the record, I'm okay with what's happened this year. Nobody in their right mind thought we were going to contend, and I don't think paying Rondo 5/90 this summer was a good plan either. I'm content with hard fought close losses and waiting until May something to see if they picked one of our ping pong balls this time. I just don't think that people who disagree with the direction of the team are clueless twits who don't understand the benefits of finishing at the bottom of the standings.
