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Danny Ainge out as Celtics GM — Jazz linked as potential landing spot

Sean said:
Remember in the early 2000s, when there were rumors about Huntsman buying the Jazz and replacing Sloan (who would retire in this scenario) with Rick Majerus? I don't know where those rumors started or how realistic they were, but it definitely was interesting - and very similar to the concern you're pointing out here.
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Rick would have lasted about a week before someone choked his *** out.
 
So here’s the question: now that Stevens is the Celtics’ GM, is he going to use the Hayward TPE to acquire... Hayward?
 
I’m glad this thread was used to help time pass by before the game tonight. I think Ainge has been a terrible GM the last couple of years. He literally squandered the greatest collection of assets any team has had in the last decade at least.
 
White Chocolate said:
I’m glad this thread was used to help time pass by before the game tonight. I think Ainge has been a terrible GM the last couple of years. He literally squandered the greatest collection of assets any team has had in the last decade at least.
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Not only that but he already had some key players signed.
 
infection said:
No. In Office Space, he had a position that wasn't needed, but wasn't questioned. The Bobs asked those questions.
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There is a difference between "needed" and "effective". I've spent a couple of decades in medically-related programming jobs (meaning now I can do both programming and analysis), but at the beginning, it was absolutely essential to have business analysts who understood the client needs as well as the way programmers think and approach problems. Businesses don't hire these guys because they have too much money to throw around.

The point of the scene is not that Tom is superfluous, it's that the Bobs are so incompetent and unlearned in the needs of the company that they are sacrificing quality and effectiveness to cut costs. This is part of the theme around their promotion of Peter (a goof-off) as opposed to Samir or Michael (highly competent people) being laid off.

infection said:
The culture of our club has historically been fairly patriarchal, even down to local media, and those in power have been given a significant amount of latitude without questioning. This isn't to say that DL is some huge buffoon (and I've never advocated replacing him), but our organization definitely has been able to set controls on what ideas come inside the organization (any organization would seek to do this) and when you slip in something that comes from an outside channel, particularly through a new part-owner (hell, the main owner, too) and that comes with someone who possesses a massive amount of basketball capital, it can make it feel like it's harder to control the influence of ideas. Just my opinion on the situation.
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I agree with you here. I was only objecting to your take on the movie.
 
FAILED STATE said:
Don’t care. But, fwiw, Bogut used to have plenty of good things to say... and owes Rick plenty.
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Said he used to really ride guys and destroy their confidence in their first two years, then he'd rebuild them over their Jnr and Snr seasons.
 
The thing is, we can say all this about Ainge, but Kyrie/Hayward/Tatum/Brown should have been a masterful grouping. They just had a lot of bad luck. From a GM perspective he masterfully orchestrated that.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
The thing is, we can say all this about Ainge, but Kyrie/Hayward/Tatum/Brown should have been a masterful grouping. They just had a lot of bad luck. From a GM perspective he masterfully orchestrated that.
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Counterpoint- his neck is absurdly fat in person... that gullet too big of a distraction.
 
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