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Danny Ainge values quality over character

The Jazz Wonderbra

The Jazz Wonderbra

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Danny Ainge seems to me like he doesn't care about attitudes, character, or signing players that only have a certain clean record. Quite the opposite in fact. Strong character's have been a part of Boston for the last 10 - 15 years. From 30,000 feet (and the past gets foggy of course) but it has always seemed to me like whenever there was trouble brewing or a cancerous player, Boston was at least rumored to be interested.

Examples:
He took Marcus Smart after he shoved a fan. Big media news at the time -
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5sGdUIC-X8&ab_channel=XOSSports

Celtics signed Rasheed Wallace who was the league's biggest pissant at the time because he would be the best basketball decision they could make at the time.
Here are some of the goofy characters he has picked up as free agents: Stephon Marbury, Isaiah Thomas, Enes Kanter

The Jazz have always been the opposite. Risk averse when it comes to low character players. We took Deron over Chris Paul because we believed him to be the better character and because he showed up in a suit and tie and wanted to be in Utah (yeah, that aged well). We took Gordon Hayward over Paul George. Seemed like a nice kid (also aged well).

So, what will we see under Danny Ainge's tenure? Character over quality? Or throw Character out the window? Jazz way or Danny's way?

We saw Trader Danny knows how to bring in draft pieces. But what type of Free Agent or trade piece does Danny go after next? Time will tell. But I could see Danny being very interested in big name players with major flaws when they are not valued by the league. Like it or not, I think that Danny would be very interested in Kyrie, Ben Simmons, and even Miles Bridges now if the price was right.
 
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The Jazz Wonderbra said:
Danny Ainge seems to me like he doesn't care about attitudes, character, or signing players that only have a certain clean record. Quite the opposite in fact. Strong character's have been a part of Boston for the last 10 - 15 years. From 30,000 feet (and the past gets foggy of course) but it has always seemed to me like whenever there was trouble brewing or a cancerous player, Boston was at least rumored to be interested.

Examples:
He took Marcus Smart after he shoved a fan. Big media news at the time -
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5sGdUIC-X8&ab_channel=XOSSports

Celtics signed Rasheed Wallace who was the league's biggest pissant at the time because he would be the best basketball decision they could make at the time.
Here are some of the goofy characters he has picked up as free agents: Stephon Marbury, Isaiah Thomas, Gordon Hayward (we all remember the circumstances), Enes Kanter

The Jazz have always been the opposite. Risk averse when it comes to low character players. We took Deron over Chris Paul because we believed him to be the better character and because he showed up in a suit and tie and wanted to be in Utah (yeah, that aged well). We took Gordon Hayward over Paul George. Seemed like a nice kid (also aged well).

So, what will we see under Danny Ainge's tenure? Character over quality? Or throw Character out the window? Jazz way or Danny's way?

We saw Trader Danny knows how to bring in draft pieces. But what type of Free Agent or trade piece does Danny go after next? Time will tell. But I could see Danny being very interested in big name players with major flaws when they are not valued by the league. Like it or not, I think that Danny would be very interested in Kyrie, Ben Simmons, and even Miles Bridges now if the price was right.
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Good. Patrick Beverly style players is exactly what we needed. No more soft euros. See ya bogdanovic
 
Ainge can overlook some character issues and at least bring players who have a passion for the game. That rules out Kyrie, Simmons and maybe even Ayton.
 
Is character over quality a Jazz way or the Miller's way?

I'm not saying who ia right or wrong, but there is a new boss in town and things are going to be diferent.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Also the OP has some very questionable sentences in there. We took Hayward over George? What is that hinting at? What character issues did Paul George have?
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Baby faced Gordo was the spitting image if an RM. He was also the safe pick. George was more of a gamble, so not character, but a typical Jazz play it safe move.

Edit: it was such a reach we booed the pick. Turned out good for a minute I guess.
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