I know he’s just a freshman but I don’t see the same ability to get to the basket. Even as a freshman, you could see MGH just had this ability to muscle his way to the basket, get up in the air, and put up a good shot over top of the defender without getting blocked. He was just too damn passive at the time to do it and for some reason he had this uncanny ability to have the ball rim out. Okogie’s just different, he can get to the basket but can’t really get a good shot off over top of anybody. He gets his shots off underneath defenders or high arcing layups off the backboard.
My wording on this is impeccably bad because I don’t really know how to describe it. I guess the difference is the ability to shoot a mostly unblockable shot over top of anyone. It’s like how Kobe Bryant could rise up and shoot a jump shot so high in the air that it really didn’t make a difference if someone was guarding him or not. It was just him and basket. Kobe had the ability to it anywhere on the court and had a much better shot of course vs Wade mainly from inside 15 feet.
One thing about J-OK, and I can't beleive we haven't touched on it here, he has ZERO left hand. Everything is rigtmht hand. If he develops that off hand I'd say that's good for a 1.5-3 point bump per game.