Kelly Olynyk (C, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

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ANALYSIS: Danny Ainge fooled everybody this summer. Yes, he traded Rudy Gobert away from a good bunch of youngsters and draft picks. He doubled down on that moving from Donovan Mitchell and adding another handful of players and draft assets to the fold. All for what? For a postseason run, you fools!

And the most glaring move making that clear was trading for good old pal Kelly Olynyk.

Olynyk was not brought to the team to get rid of Bojan Bogdanovic. Far from it. He was brought to Salt Lake City to increase the Jazz's chances at a top-10 seed in the West at the very least. And he's doing precisely that.

Olynyk has started every single game and is playing more each passing day (27 MPG in his first 10 games, 30 MPG in his last 11, at least 32 MP in each of his last four). The scoring numbers have gone a bit down of late with KO failing to hit double-digit figures in three of the past five outings, but that's mostly because of a downtick in volume more than an efficiency issue.

Considering the fact that Olynyk has been a low-maintenance starter, his numbers are extraordinary for his season-wide 27 MPG average. Only Olynyk is keeping up a 12-4-3-1-0.5 per-game line to date in the NBA while playing fewer than 31 MPG.

Among the 12 other players doing it on larger playing times, only Mikal Bridges has a usage rate below Olynyk's 17.5%, and only Nikola Jokic has a better TS% than KO's 68.6%.

What Jarred Vanderbilt is eating from Olynyk's pie on the boards (8.3 RPG compared to Olynyk's 4.8), the latter is making up for with a fantastic contribution on the APG (3+) and SPG (1+) categories.

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