Could the Miami Heat have been better off by keeping Kelly Olynyk in the fold?
While it isn’t entirely possible that they would have been able to or even would have wanted to, keeping him in tow along with some of the pieces they’ve added thus far may have made a huge difference in their team. Again though, perhaps that wasn’t even a possibility for them or possible.
With that, you have to lean here. They didn’t make the wrong move, as much as Kelly Olynyk wasn’t a or the problem with the Heat.
That was never the question anyway, whether he was a hinderance to them, but for these purposes you had to highlight it. While Kelly Olynyk didn’t light up the boxscore with Miami this season the way he has in Houston, that has everything to do with their lack of overall punch on that side of the ball and talent, generally.
While he didn’t impact the Miami Heat’s boxscore in that way though, he did have just as big an impact from an effect on the game standpoint for the Heat though. To close, there is no way to know if they traded the wrong guy, but you can be certain of one thing.
With this type of deployment in Miami as well, though as impossible as that may have been with the fact that they need certain spacing to operate as they do in Miami, he would have been more productive in the boxscore. They definitely could use some of that production now, but that’s neither her nor there either, because well, he’s not here… but there.