Mo Williams has no one to blame but himself. If he was drafted later than he wanted, if his basketball future is now a question mark, he should not be surprised.

Everyone told him so. At least everyone who knew anything.

Before the Chicago predraft camp, Williams sat in Alabama coach Mark Gottfried's office with Gottfried and an Alabama assistant. They listened over the speakerphone to Stu Jackson, the NBA's senior VP of basketball operations and head of the NBA's undergraduate advisory committee.