Goodluck getting out of the first round. This is how teams will play us come playoffs. Take out IT and we are average at best.
Then next season comes and we draft. We get the best player but we lose most of this core because most of their contracts are up. Then comes the arduous task of having to sign bums for years to come because free agents don't willingly come here.
Danny, you are about to be exposed for **** gm you really are. Your luck which has painted you as some genius over the years will soon run out.
LOL and there is Clench coming through with the hot take on Danny Ainge. Go back to your cave.
Love the team. Can't stand Danny. Sorry, I don't think he's as brilliant as everyone seems to think. I think he's a guy who's had so much luck come his way as a gm that is enough to fool gullible people that he's some kind of mastermind genius. Sorry, he's not.
Clench, it can be argued that every GM is all a product of luck, list 3 better GMs than Ainge.
Don't care about any other gm. I only care about this gm and what he's doing.
Danny is a gambler, and I fully understand you have to have some element of that to be an effective gm, but danny don't just have some element, HE IS A GAMBLER ALL THE WAY.
He's like that guy who has had many great nights at the machine or at the table but don't know when to logically cash in and go home.
His latest gamble? He gambled signing a 30 year old Horford to 26 million a year in the hopes that maybe, just maybe Durant would want to sign.
How is that a brilliant gm? How does that make any sense whatsoever?
Horford was a tiny overpay imo. He was not signed strictly because of KD. Even with KD not coming here, he is a good signing. Thats been discussed ad nauseam. He brings a lot to the locker room, he is a brilliant passer and a great screen setter and a good defender. he spreads the floor and has allowed Isaiah, Avery, and Jae to all have substantial career years in terms of shooting percentages.
Ill ignore all the stuff about Ainge being a gambler because it is devoid of any real analysis.
You also need to list 3 better GMs. If Danny sucks but he sucks less than everyone else than he doesnt suck. He is great.
You yourself have said that this team could win a title if they just gave consistent effort.
You thus believe that without cashing in on their very best asset, or developing their second best one, they still have the talent level of a team that could win a title.
Any GM that can put together a championship level talent base and have a #3 pick a top 4 pick incoming and another likely lotto pick on the way is a genius. If you deny that, your standards are absurd.