Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
lt doesn't really matter because my point wasn't that Okoro would make a good player for the team that drafted him (we've had this discussion before and l'm not really interested in re-treading it, for various reasons). My point was that l disagree with the evaluation that was given of him.
That said, finding a comparison for Okoro is really hard. lf you go on basketball reference and just slam in his sort of stats to find players who had similar statistical seasons (shot at least 60% from 2pt range but under 30% from 3, BPM of at least 6, etc) you mostly get bigs. Some of those bigs are good, or at least project to be good (AD, Okongwu, John Collins, Mo Bamba, for example, all meet these criteria), but none of those are 6'6 like Okoro is. Maybe Otto Porter is the closest?
Of course, just looking at raw statistical profiles out of context doesn't mean much, but it's just interesting to look at.