The problem isn't the Celtics. It's some of the fans.

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I think there are just too many emotional over reactions from fans who had high expectations for unrealistic trades based on misinformation. If we had drafted Dunn, and the Sixers and Bulls refused to put together a good trade offer, these same fans would now be clamoring over the fact that we have too many guards and we have to trade one of Dunn/Smart and the league knows this so we're screwed.

IF the Bulls or Sixers were serious enough to get Dunn, they would have done so with the Suns or Wolves after us. They didn't manage to make a trade with 3 different teams that could have gotten them Dunn, so it is very apparent that they were not making good offers and what was reported was inaccurate.

I concur so much with this.   Not only the misinformation on how close various trades might be to happening, but also the massive amount of misinformation about the players, how the NBA values them and how the GMs might pick them.

When essentially ever GM passes on players, letting them slide dozens of picks down below were all the media-consensus "mock drafts" predicted those players would be picked, it isn't the GMs who were at fault.  It is the mocks for incorrectly assessing where the GMs would rank those players.

Same when 5 players from #10-16 all get taken WAY WAY earlier than all the "consensus" mocks were predicting.   Again, this points to fundamental failure of the sports media masses in the journalistic effort to investigate and anticipate how the draft would unfold.

This feeds into fans (including myself) having incredibly distorted perceptions of where players should get picked.

When a GM lets a player slide by his pick (that every web site claimed should have been picked by then) the fan gets mad at the GM.    Not noticing that every other GM is letting him slide as well.

He should get mad at all those web sites for providing him with bad information.

From #10 on, 51 of 60 picks were pretty much totally different than all the mocks predicted.