Is Kelly Olynyk a dirty player?
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Is Kelly Olynyk a dirty player? – Gary D.
Nah, he’s not dirty. We know this. He’s clumsy as hell – no one has mastered the complex upfake-drive-stumble-pass-fall move like he has — and when he tries to play a physical style it sometimes ends with him bruising someone else other than himself.
The Kevin Love injury two years ago was a freak thing. The Kelly Oubre incident in Game 3 of this series was a hard hit – a shoulder to the chin, for which Oubre had a right to be aggravated – but it wasn’t deliberate. Olynyk can’t get out of his own way sometimes. You expect him to always get out of others’ way?
Of course, that didn’t stop cheap-shot expert Draymond Green — who hits opposing players in the crotch so often you’d think he were obsessed with winning the $10,000 on America’s Funniest Home Videos – from chiming in with his verdict on Olynyk via his podcast, which for some reason is called Dray Day rather than The Nutcracker:
“He’s dirty, a dirty player. I don’t respect guys like that. I know he’s not the greatest basketball player of all time, so maybe he feel like he got to do that, but you don’t have to do that. Just dirty. I don’t respect that, man. He’s dirty.
That’s rich, coming from the guy who couldn’t resist getting himself suspended in the NBA Finals last year, arguably costing his 73-9 team a shot at a second straight title.
He probably shouldn’t be judging here. Or, as the oracle known as Woj put it:
For all the new discussion about @KellyOlynyk‘s NBA character, here’s his history: Career technicals (3), flagrants (0), ejections (0).
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 8, 2017
If karma exists, Olynyk will trip over the foul line and accidentally knock Green unconscious in the Finals.
No, Kelly Olynyk isn’t dirty. He’s Kelly Olynyk, and he can’t help it. But what do you say? Are you with Dray? Have at it in the comments.
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