I really think most people are judging him negatively for playing on Philly. The guy threw down the jersey in disgust after he was drafted. The dude is a champion he led Duke his freshman year to a title and he was the best player on the team by far. If you surround him with Al Horford Jae Crowder Marcus Smart Avery Bradley Isaiah Thomas the dude is going to destroy teams you watch anybody besides Philly that gets this kid is going to be very happy for a long time and I hope it's the Celtics.
The part in bold tell me all I need to know about how you feel about Okafor.
No offense intended, but when say a rookie threw his jersey down in disgust on draft day, and then call that same guy a "champion" right after - that seems to scream of bias to me.
When you come in the the NBA as a rookie, you're almost always going to find yourself on a crap team - that's the whole idea of the draft lottery. I don't care what team you end up on, you should be proud that you even made it to the NBA, you should be over the moon with the gigantic salary you're making, and you should have absolute respect for the team that drafted you - knowing that
they chose you.
For a draftee to "The guy threw down the jersey in disgust" after being drafted, that is absolutely disgraceful, and it speaks worlds about the horrible, horrible attitude Okafor has.
Ben Simmons could be the most hyped rookie to come into the league since Lebron - did he behave that way when selected by Philly? Hell no. He's said nothing but good things about the team ever since.
As for the original question, the answer is no.
Jahlil Okafor simply isn't that good an offensive player right now. He's got potential, but he has WAY too many flaws in his game for him to have a positive impact on either end of the court in his current state of development. He played on the worst team in the NBA last year, and every advanced stat showed that he made that team WORSE when he was on the court, not better.
This is not one of those "Demarcus Cousins" scenarios, where the team was really bad when he was on the bench, but actually pretty respectable when he was on the court. No, Philly was
significantly better on both ends of the court when Okafor was sitting on the bench.
We probably have a better chance at being a top 5 offense without Okafor then we do with him. When / if he gets his head together and develops (mentally and in terms of basketball) then maybe we could revisit this question, but for now it's a big"hell no".
We had a top 10 team in the NBA - we'd be lucky to improve at all offensively by adding Okafor