I think Ainge is a great GM, but he’s retiring for health reasons. He’s had a couple heart attacks in the past few years. And he basically has zero association with this region in the past 30 years.
I give Ainge some grace. Pretty horrible luck with Kyrie going bonkers and Kemba and Hayward's injuries. He's done a good job of drafting well, collecting assets, and hiring coaches.
his draft record is VERY suspect. and who cares about collecting assets if he turned it into nothing.
Yeah, it seems like every big name that has come up over the last 5 or so years, any suggestions made here for us to acquire them was met with...Boston could easily beat that. And he never did. Having 20 future draft picks is great, but if you don't use them to trade up, you end up with a run of James Young, RJ Hunter, Guerschon Yabusele, Ante Zizic, Romeo Langford, Carsen Edwards, Grant Williams.
if you are keen on replacing Olshey, this is the guy right here that should be in consideration: He is due for a contract extension and will be in high demand. But we have an enticing building block that he does not have in Toronto.
Everything your saying may be true. But again, I would be happy to have a GM who puts himself in a position to take advantage of other teams stupidity instead of watching other GMs taking advantage of a teams stupidity. Or worse, being the GM making stupid moves. I don't think Ainge is a lock to bring titles to Portland, but all I've been asking for in a 2nd all-star, and he's proven he can do that a lot better than Olshey.
But hasn't Ainge been basically doing the same thing that Olshey has been doing? Sitting on talent that realistically play the same position instead of flipping it for a position of need?
Ainge has been rotating around multiple all-stars as of late, not all of which have stuck. I find that strategy to have a much better chances of paying off than rotating around marginal wing players and adding 0 all-stars to the roster in 8 years. That difference feels huge to me. If Olshey had provided Dame with 3-4 different all-star teammates over the last handful of years and we have no success to show for it, I would be singing a different tune.
Ainge is Olshey 2.0. He could’ve had Harden, Anthony Davis and a whole host of other starts that got traded but absolutely refused to include Jaylen Brown and/or a bunch of other stuff in trades. You think Olshey covets his players until you look at Ainge. Also there is a disturbing amount of Boston articles saying he’s the worst GM they’ve ever had. so... I mean.. hard pass.
Yup. I have read more than a few articles about how Ainge has to not only win a trade, but has to absolutely demolish the other GM.
Supposedly he could have got miles Turner for Hayward this off-season. Now, who knows if those rumors are true, but said he was wanting ANOTHER starter, I think Warren, on top of that. Instead he got some 2nds. Turner would have been a great addition to Boston, IMO.
he's also the guy who traded away a chance at BRoy for Sebastian Telfair. And wanted to trade 4 picks for Justise Winslow.
