Kenrich Williams
Oklahoma City Thunder

Player Facts

Height: 6'6"
Weight: 210lbs.

Wingspan: 6'7.25"

Date of Birth: Dec. 2, 1994
College Experience: TCU (3 years)

Selections

All Star: 0
All-NBA: 0
All-Defensive: 0

Player Grades

Speed/Explosiveness: 7
Physical Strength: 8
Positional Size: 6
Positional Wingspan: 6
Paint Scoring: 8
Midrange Scoring: 4
Three-Point Scoring: 6
Dribbling: 6
Passing: 7
Perimeter Defense: 8
Interior Defense: 7
Rebounding: 8

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>Off-Ball Intuition

> Solo Scoring Woes

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STRENGTHS

Intro

Kenny Hustle is one of the league's better glue guys. He guards several positions and has nice help-side instincts. He mixes in timely cutting, nifty passing, and strong interior finishing at 6'6".

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Offensive Adhesive

Williams has found his niche in the NBA as a malleable do-it-all role player. His offensive game can complement stronger options. With the Thunder, there are players like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Chet Holmgren, and Jalen Williams doing the heavy lifting.

Kenrich's best off-ball skill would be his bolts to the basket. He times up his cuts incredibly well. 2023-2024 saw him average 1.35 points per play on cuts.

He scans the floor for turned heads, especially that of his man, then will scoot in behind the defense. As a non-nuclear athlete, Kenrich has to rely on guile as a rover.

Finishing + Shooting

He finishes nicely around the basket with solid size and reasonable muscle mass. From 2020-2021 to 2023-2024, he made up over 63% of his at-rim attempts. He'll even mix in some push/flip shots a couple more feet out.

The TCU product adds the improved ability to bang a standstill for you. In 2021-2022, he averaged 2.4 spot-up points per game. That volume, done on okay efficiency, was better than some notable shooters like Trey Murphy III and Joe Ingles. 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 saw 37%-40% 3PT shooting.

Lastly, he adds a smidge of point-getting juice by being able to back some smalls down. His mild post-up ability becomes more viable when he's got some weight on his opponent.

Half-Court Passing Chops

Kenny Hustle can even be on either end of a ball screen set from time to time. This is mostly to put him in an advantageous playmaking position – where his vision gifts can take over from there. He'll sometimes flare into space, then attack on the catch to make plays.

Kenrich can really pass the basketball. This is a tool he flashes in second-side attacks when grabbing-and-going in transition, on short rolls, and when operating as the elbow hub. That latter vantage point allows him to find his cutters like Luguentz Dort and Alex Caruso.

He perennially gives you really nice AST/TO ratios as a 6'6" wing player. In just 21.9 minutes a night, he gave you 5.6 points for teammates on average (2021-2022). That exceeded the production marks of solid higher-minute perimeter players Norman Powell, Luke Kennard, and Collin Sexton.

Toolsy Defender

Kenrich is just as toolsy on defense. He spends loads of possessions in all shapes and sizes of counterparts. He moves his feet well and has the requisite anticipation to stymy attacks.

Williams spent 24% of his time as two-guard, 58% as the three, and 17% at power forward in 2021-2022. He ended up guarding 4 positions quite a lot. He held guards to under 40% from the field when matched up with them. 2024-2025 saw him spend a bunch of time at the backup-center spot given injuries/roster limitations.

Kenrich's defense out in space is helped out by his strong screen navigation abilities at his midsize. He was in the 75th percentile for pick-and-roll ball-handler defense in 2021-2022. When hit by the big screener, he will always hustle himself back into the play.

Off-Ball Intuition

Kenny has very strong off-ball instincts on D as well. His rotations to help at the rim after a defender has been beaten are on-time for the most part. He proceeds to actually be a difference maker there – a whopping -7.2% from <6 feet with him there in 2021-2022. He followed that up with another negative percentage year in 2022-2023.

He rounds out his defense with a keen knack for rebounding and some above-average steals-getting. He gets in there to accrue about 7.5-8 boards per-36 minutes. On that same basis, he will snatch about one and a half steals.

WEAKNESSES

Solo Scoring Woes

There are only so many areas that can be compensated for or excelled within through want-to. He of course does bring some legitimate skills to the hardwood but there are invariably underbaked components to his game.

Individual shot creation represents one of these underdeveloped parts. He is not asked to do this, so it does not really have an actively negative impact on OKC. He isolated just 28 times across his 2021-2022 campaign.

He simply cannot really create too much from scratch. Even his passing, a nice value-add on the wing, tends to come from second-side attacks or after being the screener. There is nothing inherently wrong with this low-usage play style, but it does limit your offensive ceiling.

A nitpick that tangibly affects the potential efficiency of the team is his sometimes middling distance shooting. He is largely solid on spot-ups, but his percentages dip once even one dribble is taken.

On a macro-level, he is inconsistent too – 44.4 3PT% in 2020-2021 then 33.9% in 2021-2022. He did improve back to around the upper 30s from 2023 to 2025 however this is on insignificant volume.

Zippy Guards Allergens

The only small defensive qualm for the steady-across-the-board defender would be his non-elite defense on certain smaller players. 2022-2023 saw him allow a quite lofty opposing field goal percentage to backcourt players. He doesn't have the burstiest closing speed to recover hard after getting beat initially.

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A three-year man out of TCU, Kenrich went undrafted in 2018 but has since of course become a firm rotation player.