Dusan Neskovic - Dartmouth Transfer - Commit
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Nice little interview. Hopefully continues that upward trajectory he has been on through his career at Dartmouth. Lot to be excited about. Hoping he can step in and be a rock in the lineup, hitting 3's. Hoping he can defend and rebound at a good level too.
Wasn't really sure where to put this, so just tacking it onto his old commitment thread...Neskovic has signed with an agent for the next step in his playing career.
I saw that. Sorry to be a debbie downer but kid likely got decent NIL bucks here as a one year offense only mercenary. So now he is a pro, ha.
What's the downer part? Isn't that happening all over college basketball?
If he helps, rather have him for one year than none.
The downer is he didn't help. Ball stopper and no D.
Bingo. His teams record (D1 games) the last two years while he was the leading scorer for each - - 12-43! And Dartmouth went from 6-21 (all games) to 14-14 this year without adding any major players! Hmmmm?
I liked Dusan. I think his style of play probably didn't mesh well with what we do (or try to do) here.
And I also think our record last season was more a product of a completely lackluster roster than a reflection on him.
I agree he could be a ballstopper at times, but who was he supposed to pass it up to for a shot? Our menagerie of guys shooting 3's in the 20% range?
I'm absolutely ok with Dusan. kid played hard all the time. he was a good add. his defense wasn't as bad as some here say.
but yeah ... end of the day we won 8 games.
but yeah ... end of the day we won 8 games.
It was flat out ugly, when I watch the ball movement on some of these other teams and the open looks - and then see the supposed pretty offense we don't actually run - its a bit much. The little I watched, the Dusan jacks and dribbling just left the other guys frustrated. I agree, not a lot of great options, but maybe, just maybe this greatest shooting team that couldn't shoot was a result of poor ball movement (this is a fact), ball stoppers, and no urgency until 5 seconds in the shot clock and a forced contested shot. Probably being too hard on Dusan, but Philly has a point, and I saw the kid in prep school and seemed to be same type of game then.
This hyping of Dusan is just part of the problem with our program. Now I'm open that there are many ways to win at college basketball. But we need to accept that the areas VCU, Houston, SDSU excel at - that we can at least try to be average, and play with toughness and not let teams have direct line drives to the basket so often.
He stepped up when Hunt went down and became go to scorer. In my mind we would have been even worse without him. That might sound like a backhanded compliment, but he was a decent get.
We just didn’t have a decent roster with depth last year. If we don’t up the roster next year, it will be disastrous.
We just didn’t have a decent roster with depth last year. If we don’t up the roster next year, it will be disastrous.
Our issue last season was that Dusan was asked to be our #1 option, when on any other year we would expect to be a NCAA contender, his best role is the #3 option.
He was a solid player, he was asked to do more than he really was capable of because of injuries, and in the meantime - his bank account got a little bigger, and he likely improved his highlight tape to return to Europe and play pro ball.
He was a solid player, he was asked to do more than he really was capable of because of injuries, and in the meantime - his bank account got a little bigger, and he likely improved his highlight tape to return to Europe and play pro ball.
I liked Dusan and what he gave us. After Hunt got hurt, he was by far our best player and only real scoring threat. And, while his defense might not have been great, we had 8 games where we gave up 65 points or less in regulation and still lost. The previous season, this only happened 3 times. So, our D, as bad as it might have looked at times, was good enough to win a lot more games if we could have found some more offense. I can't blame Dusan for that.
He was our best portal get last year. Of course, the other 3 were AP, GW3, and Beagle, so low bar. Mooney really effed up the portal last year.
Can't be shooting .287 from 3 if you're the go to guy as a wing or guard. tho nobody really did besides Walz. but Nesko got the most shots. he drove it pretty well we needed more of that given he was a great FT shooter. Our O didn't have enough FLUIDITY.
Unfortunately - this is going to be the norm for UR going forward in the portal - in my opinion. Unless we have a person on our staff just dedicated to nothing else but watching all other games of college basketball and "potential" portal pick-ups - we will have years where we hit on our transfers, and years where we miss.
At the beginning of this past year - our portal pickups looked very good. It was led by GW3, a top 100 recruit from HS who played for Michigan, then you had UCONN transfer Aposto with no experience, but you figured some of that practice time the past 2 years on national title teams, and not to mention - he was a foreign player with size that you figured would fit nicely into the Mooney system with big guys passing and shooting. Then you add in Beagle - American East Rookie of the Year and averaged 12 points his sophmore year, and leading scorer from Dartmouth at 16 ppg in Neskovic. On paper - that looks pretty solid to me - with the assumption Hunt will be healthy, and some other guys - Walz, Roche, and Tyne etc continue to get better. But your going to have these swing and misses, and then hits - and they will be short lived, because unlike recruiting HS kids - where you can develop them, you have to fill roster spots each year with unknowns.
Hard to say, but a valid point. Watching some other succesfull teams this year - the speed of ball movement amazez me when you look at it compared to our offense. That is coaching. I don't think any of these guys would have been stars under another coach, but could have got looks.
