Rank the Wolves on Athleticism

[shrink]

Kahn's goal has been to get long and athletic. How's he done?

Let's forget about "long" for now .. rank the wolves on their athleticism.

[C.lupus]

Without putting too much thought into it, probably something like this:

Randolph
Williams
Johnson
Beasley
Rubio
Ellington
Barea
Love (more athletic than people give hime credit for)
Webster (could be higher but hard to tell with his back injuries)
Ridnour
Tolliver
Milicic (probably more athletic than this but he doesn't use it so...)
Pekovic
Miller

[[RCG]]

Without putting too much thought into it, probably something like this:

Randolph
Williams
Johnson
Beasley
Rubio
Ellington
Barea
Love (more athletic than people give hime credit for)
Webster (could be higher but hard to tell with his back injuries)
Ridnour
Tolliver
Milicic (probably more athletic than this but he doesn't use it so...)
Pekovic
Miller

Miller
Pekovic
Milicic
Tolliver
Ridnour
Love
Webster
Barea
Ellington
Rubio
Beasley
Williams
Johnson
Randolph

(inverse order)

[lobishome]

If you consider the brain is a muscle, yeah, this team has a lot of athleticism, excepting Peko who seems nailed to the floor and only knows comply two or three orders, and Darko who can't understand nothing of nothing.

Seriously, this team haven't athleticism excepting Williams and Johnson but don't care, we need clever players with good hands who can jump enough to get Rubio's alley oops.

[Calinks]

I have seen Wayne get up for rebounds and a couple of eye popping dunk attempts. I think he is a stealth NBA athlete.

[touchedbyPek]

Randy
Williams
Wes
Beas
Wellington
Webster
Rubio
Barea
Love
Tolly
Ridnour
Darko
Pek
Miller

[moss_is_1]

Wes
AR
Williams
Beasley
Ellington
Webster
Rubio
Love
Darko(quickness for his size)
Barea
Tolliver
Ridnour
Pek
Miller

[Devilzsidewalk]

Wes
Derrick
Beasley
Randolph
Rubio
Malcolm
Barea
Webster
then Ellington, Tolliver, and some white guys

[collin_k41]

Depends how to quantify athleticism..but overall I'd say:

Wesley Johnson
Derrick Williams
Anthony Randoph
Michael Beasley
Martell Webster
Ricky Rubio
JJ Barea
Malcom Lee
Wayne Ellington
Darko Milicic
Anthony Tolliver
Kevin Love
Luke Ridnour
Nicola Pekovic
Brad Miller

[younggunsmn]

double post

[younggunsmn]

What is athleticism?
You could break it down to:
straight line speed
quickness (acceleration)
agility
hops

Beasley
Johnson
Wiliams/Randolph
Rubio
Ellington
Webster
Barea
Ridnour
Love
Tolliver
Milicic
Pekovic
Miller

Beasley is total package with speed, quickness, agility, hops. When he wants to use these abilities.
Johnson is fastest straight-line, great hops, not so great agility, good overall quickness, but trouble with handles diminishes its usefulness on the offensive end.
Williams and randolph are solid across the board, not great at anything.
Rubio's agility is off the charts, hops poor, speed/quickness average or better
Ellington/Webster about the same, slight edge to wayne because of the injuries.
Ridnour is quicker than he looks.
Love average or below at everything but makes up for it with great fundamentals.
Tolly/Milicic/Pek/Miller all slugs.

[Devilzsidewalk]

I've seen this play out in many other threads on RealGM and rather than ask what defines athleticism we should just fast forward to the inevitable conclusion that soccer players are secretly just as athletic as Lebron because of their great endurance.

[shrink]

Is "strength" athletic? Pek's got that in spades!

I don't know. This is really a subjective question, but it matters because that's the word Kahn loves to throw around. I was curious if people had similar views, or if Kahn couldn't make anyone happy. It seems to me the lists are pretty similar.

[Breakdown777]

I think overall Kahn has done a great job, as this team is athletic. I just wish they were smarter. The big issue with many Wolves has been they aren't both

Good on O/No D

Athletic/ Stupid

Smart / Not so athletic

We always have PB and no J, or J and no PB.

[Klomp]

Is "strength" athletic? Pek's got that in spades!

I don't know. This is really a subjective question, but it matters because that's the word Kahn loves to throw around. I was curious if people had similar views, or if Kahn couldn't make anyone happy. It seems to me the lists are pretty similar.

Bingo!

[BeasleyTheBeast]

Derrick Williams
Anthony Randolph
Wesley Johnson
Michael Beasley
Ricky Rubio

finish the rest later