As someone who receives a lot of credit from his teammates for his high basketball IQ, Kelly Olynyk didn’t have a lot of criticism to offer Cavs guard J.R. Smith in the wake of his critical mental hiccup in Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night.
Instead, he sort of came to his defense.
“I feel like I’ve forgotten the score before,” Olynyk said Friday morning on a conference call with Miami Heat beat writers from Delhi, India, where he’s serving as a coach for the Basketball Without Borders camp. “You’re down one and you think you’re up one.