Seriously? How many entered the league over the past 14 years when we had picks available to select this player? Several dozen?
I'm not saying he should have went all-in Euro or even selected any. You can't possibly say he's in on the Foreign invasion over the past decade and a half with a straight face however can you?
He can only pick players that are available to be selected, and fill a need. And there aren't a ton of examples where there were multiple Euros on the board that outperformed Ainge's pick.
In 2012, he missed out on Tomas Satoransky and Kostos Papinikalou.
In 2011, he could have had Bogdonavich, Davis Bertens, and Adam Hanga.
In 2010, he passed on Namanja Bjelica and Pape Sy.
In 2009, there wasn't a single Euro taken after the C's only pick.
In 2008, he missed on Pekovic, Asik.
In 2007, he could have had Kyrylo Fesenko, Stanko Baric, and Marc Gasol and Milovan Rakovic.
In 2006, he could have taken Mouhamed Sene, Shefalosa, Oleksiy Pecherov, Sergio Rodriguez, Kosta Perovic, Lior Eliyahu, Yotam Halperin, or Edin Bavcic.
In 2005, he could have taken Ian Mahinmi, Ilyasova, Roko Ukic, Axel Hervelle, Cenk Aykol, and Marcin Gortat.
In 2004, he passed on guys like Vujacic, Udrih, Albert Miralles, Vanillous Spanoulis, and Christian Drejer.
So outside of 2013, where are all of these Euro players that Ainge should have drafted but didn't because he dismissed Euros out of hand. Marc Gasol? Who this board insists wasn't a real prospect and it was purely luck that Memphis got that return in the Pau Gasol trade? Pekovic, Ilyasova, Asik or Gortat? All nice enough players, but none of them are can't miss talents that you can really be critical of Ainge for missing.
So again, it's fun to try and build a narrative around Ainge's lack of Euro draft picks. But if you actually look at the context, it makes complete sense.