<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">When it was good, it was very, very good. (See Games 1 and 4.) When it was bad, it was horrid. (See Games 3 and 7.) So, if you're executive director of basketball operations Danny Ainge, what do you do? There will be calls for the head of Mark Blount on a platter. There will be calls to trade Antoine Walker. Heck, there probably will be calls to trade Paul Pierce, especially after his ridiculous display at the end of Game 6. We can assume that coach Doc Rivers is safe, even though he now is 0-4 in playoff series and saw his team deliver a truly odious Game 7 performance, probably the worst in the history of the franchise. There will be no free agent money, other than the mid-level exception that all over-the-cap teams get. And with a team payroll likely to be in the mid-to-upper $50-million range, there is no chance of the Celtics getting under the cap. They're still on the hook for $5.3 million this year and next for Vin Baker. Anyway, here's a post-mortem of the team and what may or may not be in store. Be advised that the one I did last year called Jiri Welsch the best acquisition, by far, by Ainge. Players are listed alphabetically.</div> Source
I think his hammering of Pierce's actions in Game 6 was well over the top. Other than that though, most of the stuff he said about players was pretty good and on-point. This one was well written: <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> <u>AL JEFFERSON [/B</u>] <font color="DarkRed"> Contract status: Has two more guaranteed years totaling around $3.1 million on his rookie deal.</font> Everyone loves this kid's upside. He's fearless. He's relentless. <font color="DarkGreen">He's a 20/10 waiting to happen once he gets serious minutes. And that will be a weighty decision for the powers-that-be, because Big Al needs a lot more than the 14.8 minutes he averaged this year. And that means someone ahead of him either has to go or have his time shaved.</font> He's reason alone to pine for October.</div> The closing <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">He's reason alone to pine for October</div> was great too.
