Obviously Brand was worlds better as a player, but I just saw the latest Yabu highlights and he looks like a quicker Elton Brand.
https://youtu.be/_6bt8N4KpcE
As much as anything, you're reminding us how much the game has changed. But one thing, at least, has not changed: Achilles' tendon tears ruin careers.
Poor Elton Brand had about the worst injury you can get as a professional basketball player. Hayward's injury was a lot more gruesome, but the prognosis is good. So far medical science still doesn't know how to restore a guy's game from an Achilles' rupture. Brand went from top twenty to journeyman (Hollinger argued that he should have been MVP in 2006) - and played out his career at that level.
Comps are a tricky business, and if you try to bring stats into any Yabusele comp you can't do it with any confidence; the sample size is way too small. If the minuscule numbers mean anything, Yabu and Brand have a talent for offensive rebounding.
Brand was an inch taller but 15 pounds heavier. That's a significant gap.
Different builds, but both had great footwork and hands. In another era, Guerschon would have developed a game more like Brand's; Elton's staples were the short midrange and post-ups up and down the paint - and no threes except at the end of the clock.
Yabusele is not exclusively a 3-pt shooter, on the other hand, and in the video you provided - and other sub-NBA vids for him - you can see his handles. Looks like he's got plenty of potential to take his man off the dribble.
The game has changed, especially for bigs. With his footwork, Yabusele's game 20 years ago would likely have looked more like Brand's.
There was a Yabu thread a while ago that had a discussion about comps - moiso made an insightful one with Yabu and Anthony Mason, who has a more similar build than Brand (and 6'7", 250).