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[QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 2446422, member: 2133"]
Lonnie Walker is barely playing 20 minutes a game and has a true shooting percentage of .522 and a WS/40 of .150.  Brissett is playing 37 mpg as the 3rd scorer on an offensively challenged team and has a TS of .470 and WS/40 of .166.  Walker is showing up in mock drafts just outside the lottery.

(some) Numbers aren't the be all end all when it comes to evaluating talent.  If a team waits for a guy to blow up numbers wise to draft them (if they see elite skills), then they've waited too long.  Brissett has elite athleticism and shoots FTs at a very good percentage for a freshman forward, which correlates with an ability to shoot 3s at the pro level.  The haven't been very many freshmen who grab as many rebounds as Brissett does and shoot free throws as well as he does, and those that do include a lot of very good NBA players.  Granted, Brissett's FG% is lowest of that group, by quite a bit, but his FT% is among the best.

Personally, I don't think Brissett leaving is anywhere near a lock, but stranger things happen.  As far as I know, no one on here is an NBA scout or front office person so we don't know anything.  All we can offer are slightly educated/misguided opinions.
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