Honestly, asking this question to celticsblog is just barking up the wrong tree I've realized.
Everybody here watches a LOT of basketball and thinks about basketball and analyzes basketball - i.e., everybody that has ever felt compelled to make a single post here is on some level an armchair coach and an armchair GM. So I guess I'm not surprised that Stevens is receiving flak, since everybody thinks they can do his job (only better).
But, news flash, you can't. Stevens got BUTLER to back to back NCAA championships. He turned around our rebuilding team faster than it was even ready for. And then he followed up on that by turning our team (seriously, look at our roster) into a 1 seed? It's freaking miraculous. And Ainge... Ainge pulled off the heist of the century with Brooklyn, and formed the KG/Allen/Pierce super team. His draft record has been very above par in terms of finding talent where he's able to pick. Every time I (and everyone else) criticize him, times reveals that he made the correct choice.
"Jaylen Brown is a bad pick" Wrong. Brown is a future all-star... that might have been the pick of the draft.
"Smart over Randle? We'll regret that" Randle steadily lost his playing time over the course of a season and hasn't been doing much.
Look, Ainge and Stevens aren't perfect. But they're pretty darn good. This "Stevens in hot water, Ainge in hot water" junk should probably stop, is all I'm saying.