<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">When it comes to defending his franchise from mounting suspicions of tanking the season for Ohio State's Greg Oden, history isn't on Danny Ainge's side. Three years ago this week, Jim O'Brien quit as the Boston Celtics' head coach. He was tired of watching Ainge disassemble a playoff team, replacing them with suspect young players and misfit parts. The Celtics president himself said that maybe the resignation was for the best because O'Brien and his staff "came in with a design to win every single basketball game." The nerve, huh? Amazingly, O'Brien didn't want to give minutes to the Celtics' genius No. 1 draft pick point guard, Marcus Banks. For some reason, O'Brien wasn't sold. And as Ainge himself said, maybe it was best to drop into the draft lottery than make the playoffs. After all, Dwight Howard was waiting there. ADVERTISEMENT Now, the Celtics are making a breathless push to deposit the most shamrock ping pong balls into David Stern's lottery drum. So yes, take your time returning to uniform, Paul Pierce. Keep coaching 'em up, Doc Rivers. One of these days, Ainge is liable to force Rivers to play Sebastian Telfair ? then you'll know they've gone into Operation Shutdown. All in all, the Celtics have lost 13 straight games and done something that never happens in the NBA ? no matter how many injuries, how many young players ? by losing 10 consecutive at home. They've distinguished themselves with the worst record in the East at 12-33. So much for Celtics pride. </div> http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AuZH...=yhoo&type=lgns
I agree that he looks like he's an idiot right now, but if he's able to pull everything together (Getting Oden, trading 3-4 younger guys for quality veteran talent, Jefferson continuing to develop into a monster), then I think people will change their opinions quickly.
