Dario Saric Will Not Declare for Draft

He is, if you think about it, a 6-10 skinny college freshman who’s still figuring out what position he’s playing. I think if he had gone to college everyone would agree he needed another year, so it’s probably a good decision for him.
He’s been averaging 7.7 ppg and 6.1 rpg, which is alright for such a young player in Europe (though he did shoot less than 40% from the field). But he needs to work on pretty much every single aspect of his game.

It is a good decision. I was surprised to see the rumors lately that Dario would enter given what his father was saying during the contractual problems with Bilbao, and the way everything played out did not help matters. He had to join a new team in midseason, which is tough on anyone much less a teenager in the Adriatic League, and had to layer that with transitioning from a lower level of competition (which comes as no shock to anyone unless of course if the player is Greek and playing in a league with no money or importsbecause then of course any doubts are purely a funciton of anti-Greek racism… but I digress I’m sure there will be plenty of time for that next year). It does no one any good to get to the highest levels of competition and simply get lost once there because they are not ready.