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Message: [QUOTE="Dogdeacon, post: 3993275, member: 1026"] Yeah, there's a knee jerk reaction to this year that the Celtics are 'over' and somehow missed the perceived opportunity of their draft pick stockpile. Its ridiculous. 1. The Celtics picks was a perceived opportunity, the picks ended up not being as high as hoped. 2. Yes they possibly could have gotten more if they'd traded those picks before # determined or selecting the players, but everything from trade value of picks, to slot in the draft, to the players selected/available were less valuable than the perception. The perception was before anyone knew the current NBA trend = draft picks not as valuable as 5+ years ago. 3. This is an overreaction to one under-achieving season after multiple over-achieving seasons. They made multiple conference finals which is great and better than The Process, Houston, Portland etc virtually every other up & coming team. Unless your expectations were for a Celtics dynasty, they haven't missed anything. Tatum & Brown are still developing and improving and thinking that their best is behind them or the window has closed is really short-sighted. With Tatum & Brown the Celtics need ONE more piece to be a championship contender and it could be on their roster (Nesmith, an always healthy Rob Williams) or one trade/signing away. It wasn't Kemba (or Kyrie ) and that's an L, but now they are taking their lumps for that and gearing up to try again. [/QUOTE]