should both be on the hot seat next year. Enough with this this BS of assets if Ainge can't help the team then he should be fired. There were trades to made that helped a big time flawed roster and he sat on his hands. Skippy Magoo Brad Stevens can't win a playoffs series next year then he should be fired as well. Both of them right now are a big embarassment to Celtics basketball.
100%.
Yes, I absolutely acknowledge that Danny Ainge made some amazing moves (and some lucky moves, but still..) to get the Celtics where they are right nw.
Yes, I absolutely acknowledge that Brad Steven's coaching most of the time has a bit amount to do with why our regular season records have been so positive the last two seasons.
But just because somebody does good things, it doesn't mean you can ignore it when they make critical poor decisions that cost you success.
Ainge passed up some game changing trades. Brad Stevenshad made some illogical rotation decisions in these playoffs that have made no sense at all...and now we're likely going to be the first #1 seed in years too lose to a #8 seed in the first round.
Somebody has to take a blame for that.
Boston's obsession with signing limited-talent guys based entirely on their intangibles (personality, mainly) has taken them nowhere. Sometimes you need to take a chance on risky guys who have high talent. It worked out with Turner, who was a huge reason for our success last year despite his low cost
Guys like Horford (nice, polite, easily coachable guys who are a nice locker room presence) are great, but if you want a presence like that you should sign a guy like Vince Carter or Andre Miller to a min contrat to give you solid veteran minutes off the bench - you don't give $30M to a guy like Horford just because he's a nice guy.
We need more than a 14/6/5 return on our $30M investment if we want to get passed the first round.
