Danny Ainge Quotes (14 Quotes)

I felt that the other way was not working, and I felt this was a logical direction for us to go. Even though it's not a finished product, and this isn't the trade where we're all of a sudden we're going to win the division, it is a good trade for both teams for where they were, which was underachieving.

Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O'Brien, John Carroll, Doc Rivers) that weren't real excited about him. I think Marcus is a good player, but I don't think (there was) impatience, certainly not like a Joe Johnson o

We're going to wait to decide on team discipline. And that's an internal matter we'll never discuss.

I think that Doc is a guy that can be with the same group for a long time because I feel that the young players today need a tough-minded coach. They need to practice. They need to watch film. I think that he's going to be better next year than this year.

With the NBA scheduling, a lot of times it puts the onus on teams traveling. You play Utah one night and a team like Phoenix is resting and waiting for you the next night. That's tough. So you run into some circumstances like that more, it seems, on the road than you do at home.

He'll be with us when training camp opens.

I think 2 12 years of evaluating and watching practice every day and watching Ricky's performance on and off the court and in the locker room and everything else, we felt it was better to look in a different direction.

I can make a trade every day if I want to, but that's not going to help us. A trade that would get us better rarely comes along. They're very difficult to find. Good trades are very difficult in our league and don't happen very often.

Not right away. But we could be looking at the possibility of a 10-day contract guy.

We don't care what number we're at. We may be at 18 when it's all said and done. Somebody's going to make the team and somebody's not. Obviously, you can only have 15 contracts Opening Day, so we'll see who's still standing and who wins the jobs.

Gerald is still a major, major priority for us on the developmental side. We plan on bringing him back this season.

I have no plans to trade Paul Pierce.

I think the blame is on everybody. But if you can't improve defensively, if you can't improve in limiting turnovers, then you need a change in personnel.

I'm always talking about Ryan and how we haven't been able to give him time. Well, this is our chance to get a good look at him.