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 JIM O'BRIEN RESIGNS...DANNY AINGE FUCKING UP!!! |
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Celtics coach O'Brien quits
By HOWARD ULMAN, AP Sports Writer
January 27, 2004
WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) -- Jim O'Brien quit as coach of the Boston Celtics on Tuesday, after half a season under new boss Danny Ainge.
Ainge said O'Brien told him he wanted to resign at a meeting Tuesday morning, one of their regularly scheduled sit-downs to discuss ``philosophical differences'' on running the team.
``The philosophical differences, I thought, were much smaller than Jim thought,'' said Ainge, who announced O'Brien's departure at a news conference at the team's practice facility.
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Assistant coach John Carroll will take over for the rest of the season, Ainge said. Another assistant coach, Dick Harter, was let go.
Ainge said that he took a more long-term view of building the team, while O'Brien was more concerned with short-term results.
``Jim did not see that long-term vision that I saw,'' said Ainge, who took over as the team's director of basketball operations during last season's playoffs.
Ainge, who appeared at the news conference with one of the team's owners, Wyc Grousbeck, was also trying to add more offense to the team, while O'Brien had always placed a heavy emphasis on defense.
``He was not sure he's the man for that job ... he didn't want to take our money and our time under false pretenses,'' Grousbeck said.
Ainge, who said he was surprised by O'Brien's decision, also said he had had differences with O'Brien over whether to play some of the older players on the team.
``We felt that there was a ceiling on the success of the old players ... so we did not always agree on the players who should be on the court,'' Ainge said.
A call placed to O'Brien's agent, Lonnie Cooper, wasn't immediately returned.
The Celtics are 22-24 after reaching the playoffs the past two seasons.
O'Brien's resignation came one day after Byron Scott was fired as coach of the New Jersey Nets, the only team ahead of Boston in the Atlantic Division.
The Celtics lost five of their last seven games, including a 110-91 setback at New Jersey on Sunday. Boston trailed by 17 at halftime and sank just 36 percent of its shots for the game. In those last five losses, star Paul Pierce, who hasn't gotten much offensive help, made just 27 percent of his shots.
Since being hired, Ainge has made numerous changes, trading Antoine Walker to Dallas before the season and Eric Williams and Tony Battie to Cleveland on Dec. 15. The first deal deprived the Celtics of a second scoring threat to go along with Pierce. The second took away two veteran leaders and keys to O'Brien's defense-oriented approach.
Ainge, hired May 9, gave O'Brien a two-year contract extension running through the 2005-06 season. Before granting the extension, however, Ainge met with O'Brien and considered potential replacements among current college coaches, pro assistants, retired players and former NBA coaches.
O'Brien became coach when Rick Pitino resigned in January 2001. He took the Celtics to the Eastern Conference finals in 2002 and the conference semifinals in 2003. They lost both times to New Jersey.
The Celtics' next game is at home on Wednesday night against the Detroit Pistons, who are second in the Central Division with a 29-16 record.
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Ainge...if it aint broke, don't try to fix it....
you are fucking up!
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tell me about it... ainge says that he's making moves for the future, but he didn't try to move Vin Baker who is the highest paid player, and the highest risk, but isn't the best player, is signed thru 06.... and he moved Walker who would have been a free-agent for Lafrentz who is signed thru 07 and is making $8M, and Davis who plays the same position as PP, is signed thru 08,,,'
none of Ainge's move make sense
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Okay while I only agree with ONE of Danny Ainge's moves, it's still too EARLY to tell whether or not he's doing a bad job.
Now losing Obrien on reasons of conflicting interest doesnt' bode to well and if I had a SCORE card I would say Danny isn't placing or showing much less winning. I do realize that this ISN't a HORSE RACE..
The issue I do have with Danny though is that Boston was a middle of the pack playoff team. Now they may be battling Orlando(another TANK job happening thats receiving LITTLE attention despite all the NUT RIDERS they've gotten since the emergence of TMac) for a lottery spot.
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This is a strange bball season. Folks getting fired left and right, this coach quits. Other coaches sitting on the benches sweating in their suits hoping they will not be the next one fired if the team loses one more game.
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Obrien will definitely get another job. Look at what he did with "THAT" team. He took the EXACT same time that Ricky FRAUDTINO bailed on and damn near got them into the playoffs the year his punk azz high tailed it outta Boston.
The next year they were in the playoffs and If I'm not mistaken the year after (or maybe that same year) that gave New Jersey a hulluva run. In addition to ousting my Pistons fairly easily.
So if he can't figure out whats going on, then maybe it is soemthing with Danny.
Again, if Danny has a master plan, I certainly don't see it now with Mike James, who save for Pauly P is the ONLY person I can name off the top of my head in that starting lineup..
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