People still believe that Ainge has/had a plan?
Ainge clearly has a plan. If you can't understand it, I'm sorry. We are lucky to have a GM that understands your plan A and B doesn't always work. As long as he continues to not panic and doesn't kill our cap space or undersell our draft picks, the Celtics are in good shape to be involved in any player movement over the next two years. That's the plan. Pretty simple. We can't force teams to trade with us, but we can be in a position to make sure we will always be there when the right team finally decides to make a trade.
Right, so it's less of an actual plan and more of a holding pattern, where, instead of building a team year by year, piece by piece, he's just waiting for someone else to screw up and make a great player available, at which point he says, "I'm all in," and proceeds to throw any and all of our crap into the middle of the poker table in a desperate attempt to fool the potential trading partner that they might actually get something of value in return for their franchise player, when in reality, they're ending up with an expiring contract or two, some average to above average players, and a bunch of draft picks. Woo
. That is no way to build a team, and the reality is that with each passing day it becomes more and more clear that Ainge really lucked into KG and Ray via a number of once-in-a-lifetime scenarios and a stupid owner in a summer that will never be duplicated, more than anything else.
I also don't understand why people are waiting for the next Ray and KG trades, because, again, that was a one of a kind situation. Plus, how can we trade for similar types of players if we have no Pierce with which to join them? That's the reality, right now - we don't have any semblance of a core or even a player who might look as though they could be the next great Celtic, and that's what people should be focusing on when discussing the state of this rebuild, imo. There have now been three drafts since the end of the 12-13 season, which could have yielded us at least part of a group for the future, but instead we really don't have much of anything or anyone to build around, and, frankly, I think it's time for the owners to take the keys from Danny, which, in all honesty, should have happened years ago, imo.
