Kelly Olynyk (C, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 4

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ROSTERED IN: 29% of leagues

ANALYSIS: What if we were all wrong and the Utah Jazz made the Mitchell trade on purpose to bolster the roster on all fronts and make a play-in/postseason run? Uh!? I don't know about that, but I know one little thing: Kelly Olynyk is a top-70 fantasy player entering Week 4 and with 10 games in the books through Saturday.

Just for context, the Jazz currently have five players in the fantasy top 75 of the early season. You read that right. Math doesn't lie, either. 75 players divided by 30 teams in the NBA yield 2.5 players per team. Well, Utah has twice those. LOL.

Lauri Markkanen (top-10) and Jordan Clarkson (top-35) lead the way in total FP and rostership but Olynyk is close enough with a much larger availability. The big man is manning the paint and the C with Jarred Vanderbilt taking on PF duties and that's been the case for the whole 10 games played, so you can rest assured the roles will stay the same at least until/if the Jazz decide to move some pieces around in trades.

Olynyk is averaging 12+ PPG, 4+ RPG, 3+ APG, and 1+ SPG. It's funny that he and Vanderbilt has soooooo similar stats that if you can't find one in your league's WW you can most probably find the other one and still get pretty much the same production. What Olynyk gives you on three-point numbers (1.9 3PM a pop) he takes from the boards; what Vanderbilt adds in the glass (8.2 RPG) he takes on the long-range shooting (0.6 3PM).

With both Olynyk and Vanderbilt starting every game and getting very similar stats, there is no real risk about grabbing shares from one or the other. The per-minute production slightly favors the younger Vando (1.10 FP/min) above Olynyk (0.96) but both are putting up above-average numbers league-wise. Can't go wrong in any case.

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