Watching the game on replay, and through three quarters I don't get the Kelly hate. He's looked fine on both ends to me. Not amazing, but fine. I've seen him look much worse. I'm preparing to see him stink in the 4th.
Okay, that was a bad two minutes to start the quarter. But it was just two minutes, not an entire game.
It was the way he played - soft and lazy, with a terrible foul.
Right. There were two bad fouls in that stretch (another when no one stopped the ball and KO came to help as the guy was already driving. Someone else screwed up and Olynyk made it worse by committing a foul instead of conceding the points.) But most of the time he had really good position on defense and made some nice plays on offense. He disappeared on offense when Rozier was in the game, but that's because Rozier can't run an offense and Olynyk went several consecutive possessions without a touch as the ball got stuck on only one half of the court.
But really, it was two minutes of poor play and 17 minutes of adequate play. I still don't understand the vitriol. Everyone has a few minutes like that in the season. His defense isn't very physical, but normally he's in the right place, able to cover his man and hedge a little to help. I saw a lot of plays where the Heat just settled for contested jump shots instead of passing it to KOs man. Granted, they made those shots, but that's not on KO.