kelly's upside

[rollie mass]

He looks to finally be maturing physique wise
,remember he grew late and his idea of a tough guy carries a hockey stick-no inner city angst  creating a  anger and hunger on court-he loved those exuberant fans during interview
hope he contnues in gym and with lateral speed drills
 looks like he could really fill out even more which should help his defence-
his stats last year were missleading as he was slow to recover from his ankle injury

[CelticPride2016]

Kelly Olynyk deserves understanding and patience. He had to adjust to becoming a seven footer like you say. Now he is turning himself from being Mikki Moore into Perk. Not Perk, maybe, but Olynyk does seem to have transformed his body as much as anyone the last couple years.

He appears to soak in info also. I'm surprised the C's don't hire a center to coach him and Zeller. I imagine Sully's best chance at a great career is to lose the bulk and become a pure power forward. Olynyk has the body of a center or is in the process of developing into one. I have not given up on Zeller either. He could use some extra food and weight lifting also. Sully should quit the carbs and jump rope.

The C's never replaced Clifford Ray. I don't think so. It seems like Walter McCarty is the coach for bigs. It'd be nice to get McHale in here. He played a lot of center. I love Walter, but I don't imagine he has much of a clue. Or bring back the Chief to coach the centers if he's not on some other team.

Bring in Russell for a few days. I think Hondo still shows up every once in a while to let the new roster know what it means to be a Boston Celtic.

[oldtype]

I'm pretty sure this is it. He's a fine backup player which is what we expected when we drafted him. Hopefully his three-point shooting normalizes to around 35%.

[footey]

Of come to conclude that Kelly can stand out when we play a crappy team.  Like vs. the Sixers last year, or the Lakers last year (or was it the year before)? Or like last night vs. an awful team.

Where I have seen improvement is in his defense, for sure. He actually has very active hands now, something he did not seem to have before. I feel he continues to get screwed by refs.

[Celtics18]

Of come to conclude that Kelly can stand out when we play a crappy team.  Like vs. the Sixers last year, or the Lakers last year (or was it the year before)? Or like last night vs. an awful team.

Where I have seen improvement is in his defense, for sure. He actually has very active hands now, something he did not seem to have before. I feel he continues to get screwed by refs.

This part is obviously just selective memory.  Many of Kelly's best games have come against good teams. 

[SHAQATTACK]

His hair

[crimson_stallion]

Of come to conclude that Kelly can stand out when we play a crappy team.  Like vs. the Sixers last year, or the Lakers last year (or was it the year before)? Or like last night vs. an awful team.

Where I have seen improvement is in his defense, for sure. He actually has very active hands now, something he did not seem to have before. I feel he continues to get screwed by refs.

He just had a great game against Sacramento with Cousins playing, and that's not a crappy team.

Don't let there overall record fool you, because Cousins has missed 8 games this year and over those 8 games the Kings have gone 1-7. 

The Kings have been a playoff calibre team (0.500 on a 6-6 record) when Cousins has played.  Beating that team by something like 20 points is no small achievement, especially given we hassled Cousins into his worst performance of the season.   

Prior to yesterday, Cousins hasn't had a single game this year in which he's had less than 21/9 - the only exception being on 31st of October when he only played 15 mins (and he still had 13/9).

He also shot a season low 23.5% from the field, and had less than 10 free throw attempts for only the third time this season (one of those was the aforementioned 15 minute game on Oct 31st).

I haven't had a chance to watch the game yet, but whoever was defending Cousins needs a big pat on the back - we shut down a top 5 player.  Who says Boston has no rim protection? lol

[rollie mass]

kelly has improved each year and last year was a roller coaster with the first half of a constantly changing roster and loss of vets in critical positions
 then his ankle injury that put him out a month and definitely bothered his game coming back
kellys worked on dribbling skills and now attempting to navigate the paint which has led to some  awkard  footwork-it seems to me kelly may also allways be unorthodox not allways a bad thing because of his leap and short arms combined with a guards mentality
BUT this makes kelly a difficult player to defend
i think mid season should benefit all the celts, as teams settle in to their positions in standings and defences and stars get lazy
injuries will further weaken teams starting rotations and even more so benches that were allready weaker than ours-
isiah will thrive with this and jerebko and kelly will stretch floor,the focus will be on isaiah and will leave kelly lots of options-

[CelticPride2016]

The problem is David Lee. Amir and Sully made obvious separation from the other three. Kelly is simply too talented to not be in the mix. Zeller has been impressive in accepting his banishment to the doghouse.

I think Tyler is a shy person who may seem more aloof than he actually is.

He'll do a sincere quiet clapping and support. He has been effective in the minutes he's been getting lately.

I see David Lee consistently turning the ball over and getting his crazy man drives to the hoop easily swatted.

Olynyk will always appear awkward. Trumpet players aren't supposed to blow their cheeks, but some of the greatest did just that.

Turner is another guy who may be getting a worse grade than he deserves due to aesthetic nitpicking over any actual bad play. He has that high dribble. He used to be a rather hit or miss influence a la Jordan Crawford. He's been playing extremely well off the bench.

I have the upmost confidence that Olynyk has turned a corner this year. I don't think he will ever drop out of the rotation. I'm hoping Lee sooner rather than later ends up in what should be a coaching/mentoring role at the end of the bench.

The fight is on for wins. We don't want some cheesy first round exit like last year. The C's are in the hunt for 50 wins. Add Sacramento to the growing list of teams who have had their whole seasons wrecked in one game by Boston.

I am not afraid of some losses either. They will still happen and still only count for one loss.

[dreamgreen]

I'm pretty sure this is it. He's a fine backup player which is what we expected when we drafted him. Hopefully his three-point shooting normalizes to around 35%.

I'm leaning this way.