SQ14 #33 Olynyk Leap This Year or Next?

Players that thrive in the NBA typically make a significant leap in either their second or third years.  Kelly Olynyk has a lot of work to do.  His body is far from a completed project.  He needs more strength, up, down, and all around.  He needs more, more powerful, more skilled, and more consistent moves around the basket.  He needs to maneuver around the court with more assurance, controlled force, and certainty.  He needs to “see” the court so his anticipation can partially compensate for his below-average lateral mobility. 

And yet, all these needs are attainable; and his numerable pluses, many of which are not really teachable, already constitute a formidable array.  Most of his needs lend themselves to off-season attention.  Those that don’t, like anticipation (at NBA light-speed), will benefit from training camp at full speed (and without the plantar fasciitis that plagued him last summer and fall).  Those facts, and his rather remarkable progress in the last few weeks at the end of his rookie season, bode well for his continued progress.

Will it be The Big Jump?  I don’t know, but I do think that it will be a significant one.  Enough so that I think he will be pushing Sullinger hard if Jared doesn’t come into camp in top shape. 

Only 32 more days before training camp.[Discuss on CG Forums!]