<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">While you've been busy worrying about Curt Schilling, Keith Foulke, new outfield sod, Tom Brady's arm, Tom Brady's GQ picture holding the goat, and if you'll ever be able to drive underneath downtown Boston without worrying about drowning, Danny Ainge has been busy, too. The Celtics' executive director of basketball operations has been trying to buy up every available point guard in the known universe. Well, lots of 'em anyway. Until further notice, the Celtics will go to training camp with five point guards, none of them, unfortunately, named Kidd or Billups or Parker, and perhaps this is not the time to remind everyone that Chauncey Billups was once in a Celtics uniform and Tony Parker should have been. But that's all part of the sorry recent past, and this regime is rightly concerned only about the present. The Celtics aren't going anywhere this season if somebody, or a couple of somebodies, don't give Doc Rivers some quality minutes at this most crucial position. Say this for Ainge: He has certainly given his coach some options. Pretty darn good options, too, according to Ainge. ''I think we have guys who can do the job," Ainge insists. Almost forgot. For those of you a bit out of touch with Celtics matters these days (understandable, given our preoccupation with the local, ahem, championship teams), the five young men -- and the oldest is 26 -- are Marcus Banks, Delonte West, Dan Dickau, Will Bynum, and Orien Greene. None is in line to dislodge the Cooz as point guard on the all-time Celtics team. Of course, we wouldn't be having this conversation if Banks had turned out to be what Ainge hoped he'd be when he selected him 13th overall in the 2003 NBA Draft. ''I won't say I'm disappointed with Marcus," Ainge maintains. ''Marcus has proven to be an NBA player. But I'd have to say his strength is in the open floor and exerting full-court defensive pressure. He has struggled in the half-court."</div> http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/ce...e_point?mode=PF Bob Ryan's piece from the Globe today. Nothing new, but a few quotes from Danny.
Yea, nothing new. I'm not expecting to see another deal this off-season. At least Ainge is being optimistic.
[OT] It's good to see Bob Ryan writing about the Celtics and basketball again. Reading his NBA column in the Sunday Globe used to be one of the highlights of my week back in the '70s. Much more thatn reading any of his successors columns have been. BTW, for those of you who haven't been reading his stuff as long as I have, he must *really* like Delonte West. Because he doesn't use that " je ne sais quoi" line on people he expects to be merely adequate NBA players. He saves it for players he thinks are or are going to be special. Just so you know. [/OT]
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Perk-a-Jeff:</div><div class="quote_post">It's good to see Bob Ryan writing about the Celtics and basketball again. Reading his NBA column in the Sunday Globe used to be one of the highlights of my week back in the '70s. Much more thatn reading any of his successors columns have been. </div>Yeah, that's the main reason I posted it. His articles are brilliant compared to those of Shira and May's. Actually, BSMW did a nice feature on this: <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Basketball Coverage Shira Springer Peter May Shira Springer has her detractors, but I don?t count myself among them. I think she does a good job on a day-to-day basis covering the club. She?s gone in and tackled some big stories and broken her share of them as well. She?s done a number of nice features over the last couple years, and is probably an underutilized guest for the local radio and TV programs. Peter May is yet another unfortunate example of a writer allowing his personal feelings and preferences to creep into his coverage of the team. He?s also the type that enjoys bringing up past failures and making repeated references to them. A reference to Tony Parker in relation to the 2001 draft somehow manages to make it into most Sunday Notes columns, and he?s fond of referring to the day that Ricky Davis was traded to the Celtics as ?the day the music died? because it led to Jim O?Brien?s sudden resignation from the team. The reader has to put up with May?s constant snide remarks and little shots at Danny Ainge, whom he clearly dislikes. Just prior to the 2005 draft, May wrote a glowing profile of high school star Gerald Green, who was expected to be a top lottery pick. A couple of nights later, Green fell to the Celtics where Ainge selected him with the 18th pick. May criticized Ainge for the selection and denigrated Green, calling him the last thing the Celtics needed. It seemed very clear that because it was Ainge and the Celtics who drafted Green, May was willing to change his view of just days before. So, it seems the Celtics coverage is split?some good, some bad. Of course, there are a couple of wild cards in the mix when it comes to the local basketball club. All three columnists for the Globe?Bob Ryan, Dan Shaughnessy, and Jackie MacMullan?have previously served as beat writers for the Celtics, have seen the glory days for this franchise, and know basketball. Of course, the current Celtics edition suffers in comparison to the championship squads of the 1960?s, 70?s, and 80?s, so the three columnists may have their standards for the team set pretty high. For the most part, when one of them has a column on the Celtics?rare as that may be these days?it?s worth reading. Celtics Coverage Grade: B-</div> http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/ Pretty much agree 100% with that.
Being a Celts fanatic and a female, maybe I'm biased. But I love Shira Springer. She is the best writer that covers the team.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting tiny dancer:</div><div class="quote_post">Being a Celts fanatic and a female, maybe I'm biased. But I love Shira Springer. She is the best writer that covers the team.</div> I'm not really a fan of hers, but I love your username
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting BC:</div><div class="quote_post">I'm not really a fan of hers, but I love your username</div>thanks
