Jeff Green deal, Bradley deal, now giving Mavs a really nice christmas gift. Why do you still have a job? Just like Doc and coaching, Ainge is turning out to be an overrated GM.
Yeah, we would've been fine after Daniels went down with no one to back up Pierce. It also would've been sweet to see Perk leave us that summer. And finally, isn't Ainge such an idiot for not being able to predict that Shaq was a walking corpse?
Or, you know, he could have gotten Tracy McGrady on the cheap in the 2010 offseason to pair with Daniels off the bench, but noooooooo. TMAC would have been a perfect 6th man on our team, imo, especially when Pierce routinely got reffed out of games against Miami. Plus, McGrady wouldn't have had to play major minutes, and even if he wasn't scoring, his playmaking ability would have more than made up for it. I can't be the only one on here who believes this, can I? Even Tommy said he would have made a great addition to our squad. Sigh.
You are missing the part where Ainge was expected to have a crystal ball and predict that Shaq/JO couldn't hold up. Ainge also netted Krstic in the deal, who was a center. It's not Ainge's fault that Krstic was completely misused by a stubborn Doc. We still had depth down low. And I would have rather traded Perk and Nate for Jeff Green and Krstic than signed T-Mac and watched Perk walk that summer when we rightly wouldn't have offered him what he wanted.
We actually should have traded Perk after the 2009 playoffs, when his value, along with Baby's, was never higher. For what, or who, I don't know, but it's called THINKING AHEAD (I'm yelling at Danny, not you, lol.
). Ainge had a sh1tload of chances to improve the team, and he only made things worse. Doesn't anyone else remember the 2010 draft, when teams like then-New Jersey, New York, Chicago, and Miami, were literally selling their first round picks for cash to help their causes in the Lebron sweepstakes? Umm, HELLO!!?? I don't like Mark Cuban, but he bought a first rounder that year - at least he tried. Those types of situations don't come around every day, and you have got to take advantage of them when they present themselves. It's really not that hard.