Yeah, I hear you dude, the front office should of never made promises and needs to reset expectations with the fans and actually address the "fireworks" conundrum.
The whole draft thing, he has some staunch defenders but Al Jefferson, Avery Bradley, Rajon Rondo, and Tony Allen to an extent, are the only guys who panned out. That's four players out of 25+ picks during his whole career.
Tony Allen only worked out "to an extent"? He was the 25th pick in the draft. I think the problem is more that your expectations for late picks are much too high
Ok, I'll grant you Tony Allen that's still only 4 players in the time frame of 13 years. He still trades for good players, and I appreciate that.
I'm not looking to jumpship or whatever, I'm just saying I understand OPs frustration with the Celtics being in the rumor mill 24/7 yet nothing ever materializes, it is getting tiresome but it can also be a good thing for our outlook in the league as an asset hoarder and willing dance partner.
You have to throw in Sully, too - at #21, he was clearly a good pick
And Big Baby. Getting a legitimate NBA player in the second round is very rare
And Olynyk at #13 in the horrible 2013 draft
It seems like you're skipping over an awful lot of players here...
I wouldn't consider these picks "hits", the others had decorated careers but okay man sure... Big Baby played big for us in that playoff run... You have to wonder if Marc Gasol could've ever filled Big Baby's shoes here.
Not every pick in the draft is going to have "decorated careers", and expecting every pick (especially second rounders!) to is just unreasonable. By that standard, EVERY GM is incompetent.
And yes, Marc Gasol had a better career than Big Baby, but, again, if you're going off the standard of "if someone picked behind you has a better career, you're a bad pick" then almost everyone is a bad pick, including superstars like Blake Griffin, Serge Ibaka (despite being the 24th pick), Derrick Favors, Demarcus Cousins (not as good as Paul George), Klay Thompson,chandler Parsons (at #38)... and so on
Danny may not live up to your expectations as a drafter, but that seems to have more to do with your expectations than their actual ability