I’m comfortable with our whole roster. We feel like we’ve won without Rajon before, and we could do that again for a time. But if Rajon had a serious injury, I wouldn’t feel all that comfortable. Same thing with Paul or Ray (Allen) or KG (Kevin Garnett) or any of our starters . . . Perk (Kendrick Perkins) .

--Danny

The paragraph begins with the usual blather from El Jeffe, but then takes a slight detour when he concedes that a serious injury to Rondo would indeed concern him. But he quickly recovers by the end, saying a serious injury to any starter would concern him. Somewhere in the middle we had an unfiltered response from Mr. Ainge, and it explains why Tyronn Lue is now on the double-secret, back-up, back-up IL.