Interesting stuff. Anybody who thought Luke Babbitt was another A_am Morrison was wrong. This kid is an excellent athlete. Of course, you can ask Joe Alexander and Gerald Green what that does for you. Still, Babbitt is clearly no Joe Alexander or Gerald Green. http://www.nbadraft.net/nba-draft-combine-athleticism-test-results
That really surprised me. The clips I saw of him at Nevada made him look kind of "plodding" I guess I can see why his stock is rising so much.
Greg's was also 12'2". What's even more amazing is Al Thornton, who at 6'5.75" had max reach of 12'1". I've never seen him jump that high in the NBA though. http://www.draftexpress.com/nba-pre-draft-measurements/?year=2007
Thanks for the link. What sets them apart is Greg had a no-step max reach of 12-foot, pre-injury. Favors is going to be a beast.
I wonder if any team is still seriously considering Cousins over Favors? I won't be shocked if he leap-frogs Turner into the #2 spot.
[video=youtube;R0_PCqoB0aI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0_PCqoB0aI[/video] watching this clip I have no idea why nbadraft compares him to Chris Mullin besides being a pale lefty also of note for Babbitt is the recently released shooting drill results STOMP
Who knows, maybe that Babbitt kid is going to be pretty good, he at least seems like a willing passer and some of those shots he took above were deep even for the NBA ... The shooting drills are interesting, but it's hard to take anything away from it; any of those guys could have been having a hot or cold day, but it does make me a little more warm to the idea of Paul George (good from both deep and off the dribble)
Didn't we hear before the draft how Luke Jackson was a good athlete, too? I think that if a guy looks unathletic in college on the floor, then he probably is unathletic on the floor in the NBA, irrespective of combine numbers. Ed O.
back surgery his rookie year limited him to just 46 games in his first 2 seasons. It's possible that injury curbed some of his athleticism STOMP
