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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 2449259, member: 767"]
I wanted to look at the Ken Pom player comps for Brissett, some interesting names in his top 5, including Wes Johnson's freshmen year at #3 and (wait for it) Melo's freshmen year at #5!

Couple of caveats: The similarity scores are pretty low, for instance, his most similar comp is Justin jackson from Maryland last year, that checks in at 908 (scale is 1000).  All of Tyus Battle's top 5 comps are more similar than the most similar comp for OB; basically, he's unique.

Another caveat; pure shooting % is a relatively low weight, the list is here: [URL="https://kenpom.com/blog/free-tim-williams/"]Free Tim Williams  |  The kenpom.com blog[/URL]

Here's my main overall take on Brisset:  The shooting percentages are horrendous.  There's no sugercoating that.  But there are a lot of things working in his favor.  
1) He's just a freshmen, and he's being forcefed a lot more minutes than he's probably ready for.
2) He's both drawing a lot of fouls and shooting well from the line.  The second part of that says to me there's a decent amount of upside to the current shooting percentages
3) He's rebounding well, on both ends of the floor.  He's by far the best defensive rebounder we have, and right now has a better defensive rebounding% than anyone we've had in the last 7 years or so.
4) He's got a really low TO rate.  So, despite the terrible shooting percentages, he's got an above average offensive rating and barely rates behind Battle in this metric.
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