Not impressed with Okafor

[littleteapot]

I will go with Towns, too
JO is too slow to play the NBA, he somehow reminds me of Fab Melo with higher IQ

OK don't go too far. The guy is a beast and I would be shocked if he doesn't have an nba impact. I'm just not sure he has the versatility that Towns has to justify being picked higher.

[konkmv]

Everything i read about draft prospects is b...... you can only guess right now... from what i see okafor stein towns and turner would be good picks for boston. Everyone has weaknesses. It is up to them and their next team to improve them... i am very impressed with all of them...

[Eddie20]

JO is too slow to play the NBA, he somehow reminds me of Fab Melo with higher IQ

[Celtics4ever]

Okafor would be fine replacing Sully but not alongside of him, I think.

[Sketch5]

I'm not super impressed by either Okafor or Towns. Okafor has a decent offensive game, but doesn't get good postilion all the time and gets pushed out a lot, which for the first couple of years in the NBA will happen a lot.

Every time I try to check out Towns, he's on the bench, and a lot of the time during crucial parts of the game. He also looks more like a PF than a center. Which he may be a nice upgrade over Sully.  But I don't see him as a rim protector.

I'm sure the C's will put them threw the tests if they get a chance and maybe the defensive ability is there for Okafor, he's just never had to learn it in highschool and it's showing in college.

[jpotter33]

I think Okafor seems to be a better rebounding Al Jefferson type. A good player in his own right, but not necessarily what we're looking for or where the league is trending now.

[Quetzalcoatl]

He kind of reminds so me of Kevin McHale, as weird as that sounds.  The one thing that really stands out to me though is that while McHale is a much better free throw shooter, Okafor is shooting .665 for his FG% on 11 shots a game.  That's really good.  I think Okafor would be better as a PF than a pure C, though.

[tazzmaniac]

He kind of reminds so me of Kevin McHale, as weird as that sounds.  The one thing that really stands out to me though is that while McHale is a much better free throw shooter, Okafor is shooting .665 for his FG% on 11 shots a game.  That's really good.  I think Okafor would be better as a PF than a pure C, though.

I don't see the McHale comparison at all.  McHale was an excellent defender and Okafor is below average.  Okafor would be a terrible PF.  He wouldn't be able to defend the athletic PFs and 3pt shooting PFs.