The Boston Celtics almost certainly had the most disappointing draft class of the 30 NBA teams. On a night that was expected to be dominated by the Celtics, they instead came up relatively lame and were unable to turn their immense amount of draft capital into any solid results. They ended up using six of their eight picks and ultimately failed to add any difference-making talents to bring their team to the next level.

The biggest disappointment of the night for the Celtics was the first round. After many rumors swirled around about their efforts to trade the No. 3 overall pick, they ended up coming up empty. They kept the pick because the trade offers were not to their liking, and they ended up selecting Jaylen Brown. Brown was a reach at that juncture and does not really add a new dimension to the team. He is primarily a defensive player who will just back up Jae Crowder and not produce much on offense until he develops a jump shot.

Following that, the Celtics had the No. 16 and No. 23 picks and they were unable to package either of them for a better deal either. Instead, they took a couple of foreign prospects. While Ante Zizic was a pretty solid pick who could up being a starting center for the Celtics someday, selecting Guerschon Yabusele at No. 16 was downright irresponsible. Yabusele was, at best, a late-first to early-second round prospect, and he will not be coming to the NBA any time soon. There were far more talented players on the board.

In the second round, things got a little bit better for the team. They traded a couple of their early picks for a 2019 first-rounder and added a couple of fringe first-rounders in Demetrius Jackson and Ben Bentil. They may be hard pressed to make the roster, but the team still got some solid players who could be assets in the future. However, they did waste their final pick on Abdel Nader, who was not considered to be a draftable prospect by most.

The main story of the night for the Celtics was that they did not get the veteran help they so desperately wanted and needed. They needed to make a trade, plain and simple. No team needs six rookies, even if some are playing overseas.

The worst part is, the front office did have a chance to make a deal for a player like Nerlens Noel. Granted, it would not have the same impact as acquiring Jimmy Butler or Jahlil Okafor, but it still would have been better for the team than drafting Brown. Noel at least would have given them some rim protection, which the team still does not have following the draft.

My final qualm with the draft was that the team essentially gave up on making a trade once nobody bit on the No. 3 pick. They took Brown, who was apparently a front office favorite, but why did they not take Kris Dunn? There were many teams interested in trading for him, so the Celtics could have drafted him and used him as leverage in any trade attempt. They did not do that and instead settled for an inferior prospect.

Danny Ainge deserves a fair amount of blame for how things unfolded. Yes, the trade offers were not necessarily good enough, but perhaps the team should have been more aggressive in their attempts to move their capital. This just wasn’t the type of night most Celtics fans were looking for.