Looking back Gianni's is the best player from the 2013 draft. Wow. We could have had the best player at the #13 selection.
And OP is so correct that Ainge said, Kelly will be a good complimentary player, when we could have had someone with star potential. What a bad pick smh.
Lets all please give Danny a break, shall we?
First of all, Giannis was taken at #15, and Boston's pick was #16. As far as i'm aware the only way Boston could have drafted him is to trade for the #13 pick, then select him themselves. As far as I am aware that was never an option because they didn't trade for the #13 pick, they traded for Kelly Olynyk (who Dallas selected at #13).
I'm not sure that the Jazz were willing to give up the #14 pick, and I'm not sure that Milwaukee were willing to give up #15.
Secondly, it's so easy for everybody to make criticisms 3 seasons later when we all have the benefit of actually seeing these guys develop - it's not so easy when you are there on the day, and none of these guys have played an NBA minute, and nobody has an idea who is going to be a beast/bust.
As has been said, Giannis is arguably the best player in that draft, yet he went at #15. That means there were 14 teams who passed on him, which obviously tells you that very few team (possibly no teams at all) actually predicted he was going to be as good as he is. Even if Milwaukee was higher up in the draft (say, in the top 10) - how do we know that even they wouldn't have passed on him?
Danny had the #16 pick, and traded to grab Olynyk at #13 instead. In hindsight, there were really only 4 guys taken from #16 onwards who have because rotation quality NBA players (Schroeder, Dieng, Gobert, Plumlee)...so if Danny didn't trade for Olynyk and decided to keep #16, chances are we would have ended up with a player much worse than Olynyk.
In fact the only guy on that list who is really better than Olynyk is Gobert, and almost 30 teams passed on him.
So it's not really fair to criticise Danny for making a bad pick. Taking Olynyk was a very good draft decision once you factor in where Boston were situated in the draft, and which players went after him. If you go in to the draft get a quality rotation player at #16, then you had a very good draft.