Started 37/37 games for the NJCAA champions, BUT he only averaged 10 minutes a game. He shot decently from the floor (48%), but Hutch scored a 90+ a game and Nikola averaged only about 4 ppg. It makes you wonder what he will be asked to do wherever he goes, because I don't think it will be scoring. I dunno, I guess it's nice to have a seven footer who can walk and chew gum just to be a big body.
Sounds like a jump ball guy and then used situationally. Obviously since I've never seen him play I can't make an assessment of his strengths and weaknesses but not sure I'm all that impressed by a guy that is only getting 10 minutes at the JUCO level.
The fans want a seven footer and that is what we will get, just kidding. I like the fact that his team won a championship, I like his height, but at the D1 level, athletes can go around you if you are slow and over you if you are soft. We need difference makers not guys that can play 5 minutes a game. I would be trying to recruit player that is better than any big that he have skill wise to foster a competition that makes the recruit and the incumbent stronger, and most of all this would give us a guy that we know that can count on, market forces and contingency planning, not just a 7 footer that can play situational defense.