The Kelly Olynyk Conundrum

Sometimes bigs take more time to develop.

It's a different story if this season is Olynyk's 7th season.

The potential is there.

fierce wrote:Sometimes bigs take more time to develop.

It's a different story if this season is Olynyk's 7th season.

The potential is there.

Agree he is a bench player yet many seem to think he should get be able to get starter stats.  Are there that many 7 footers off any ones bench that are remarkably better?

Seems to me he played a lot better as the season wore on and had some pretty good playoff games too.

if the price is reasonable ( i have no clue what that might be) keep him.

beat

OK...I say we keep him for $12M or less a year BUT:

he has to cut that damn hair!!

come on Hippie.

kdp59 wrote:OK...I say we keep him for $12M or less a year BUT:

he has to cut that damn hair!!

come on Hippie.

YES on both. Why would we pay someone more than Amir to come off the bench? If he gets 15 - 20, he needs to start. Hope his agent is a reasonable person.

kdp59 wrote:OK...I say we keep him for $12M or less a year BUT:

he has to cut that damn hair!!

come on Hippie.

He can keep the long hair, but that weak growth on his chin has to go!

gyso wrote:

kdp59 wrote:OK...I say we keep him for $12M or less a year BUT:

he has to cut that damn hair!!

come on Hippie.

He can keep the long hair, but that weak growth on his chin has to go!

No way, he is like Sampson - his hair (both head and chin hair) are the source of his power. Without them he is nothing but Macaulay Caulkin on roids. Also, his look makes players from other teams hate him, which gets into their head and affects their performances. I say keep the hippie look.

wideclyde wrote:DBOSS,

It may sound like a good idea to play Olynyk 28-30 minutes on his 'good' nights, but a terrible idea to try to play him even 8 or 10 minutes on his 'bad' nights.

Wide

I was not being serious.  If KO was able to play at a high level for 25-28 mpg it would give some measure of justification for even thinking about a $12- $15 mill per year salary.

Kelly is a player at 7 feet with no post game except when a guard is checking him.  All the talk about his stretch the floor abilities are exaggerated.

He pretty much choked in the playoffs.  He had the one eye popping game which was a great game for him but not an NBA level great game.

He plays scared and once he makes a bad play or 2 he completely disappears.  

Dboss

dboss wrote:

wideclyde wrote:DBOSS,

It may sound like a good idea to play Olynyk 28-30 minutes on his 'good' nights, but a terrible idea to try to play him even 8 or 10 minutes on his 'bad' nights.

Wide

I was not being serious.  If KO was able to play at a high level for 25-28 mpg it would give some measure of justification for even thinking about a $12- $15 mill per year salary.

Kelly is a player at 7 feet with no post game except when a guard is checking him.  All the talk about his stretch the floor abilities are exaggerated.

He pretty much choked in the playoffs.  He had the one eye popping game which was a great game for him but not an NBA level great game.

He plays scared and once he makes a bad play or 2 he completely disappears.  

Dboss

For the season KO took 2.6 three point shots per game and hit 0.9 of them. In other words he did not even average one 3 point shot per game. That is not a stretch.

I would bet that the rookie Yabu can give us everything that KO gives us even though he is a rookie.

dboss

There isn't one person on here who would not love to have the Kelly Olynyk from the 7th game of the Wizard series. There was no hesitation in his shot, he passed the ball like a point guard, played defense the way we all have wanted him to all year, was "into" it from beginning to end. His emotions were out there for all of us to see. He was great.
Then.......he kind of disappeared, took terrible shots, and showed up sporadically. I wanted to yank him off the floor myself, put up against quality players who needed a body leaning on them (Love, Thompson???)

This kind of inconsistency drives me nuts. You never know who is going to show up. I have to say that I think Kelly is one of Steven's favorites, but there are times when he sits him for quarters because of this inconsistency, So, how much money is a guy like that worth? There is a team out there that will offer him some crazy money, he is a big who spreads the floor well and makes it easier for Thomas and Bradley to score.
He even plays decent with Horford at times.

We can say whatever we want, but in the end, Danny will either shock us with a trade or wait it out. I don't think he will be the one offering crazy money.

Rosalie

The Celts are going to bring on both of their 1st round picks from last year.

If Amir, Zeller, Jonas and KO are gone they would still need at least two more bigs.  That is the nature of the conundrum.  I forgot about Mickey who would be a low cost option who has yet to be given any meaningful opportunity to play.  Even if they kept Mickey they would still need another big.  They do not have a replacement for KO despite the fact that I do not think he is that good.

We could go the free agent or trade route and/or garner more luck in the 2nd round.

I do not know how many fans have looked closely at the 2nd round but there are several very talented PF / C that may be available at #37.  

dboss

dboss wrote:The Celts are going to bring on both of their 1st round picks from last year.

If Amir, Zeller, Jonas and KO are gone they would still need at least two more bigs.  That is the nature of the conundrum.  I forgot about Mickey who would be a low cost option who has yet to be given any meaningful opportunity to play.  Even if they kept Mickey they would still need another big.  They do not have a replacement for KO despite the fact that I do not think he is that good.

We could go the free agent or trade route and/or garner more luck in the 2nd round.

I do not know how many fans have looked closely at the 2nd round but there are several very talented PF / C that may be available at #37.  

dboss

Not sure Yabba will be ready, but Zizic will be.