how strictly to enforce<\/a> its \u201cactual and necessary expenses\u201d provision for foreign pro eligibility. A guidance emailed to athletic departments in May, after most teams had already signed the latest wave of European pros, indicated the NCAA intends to take a harder line.<\/p>\nSkoric played for the top team in Croatia. Torresani and Vincini both played in Italy\u2019s Serie A, regarded as one of the top leagues in Europe.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe upper-division European players are still in the process, which is they want their contracts, they want their receipts, they want to get them as close to necessary living expenses as possible,\u201d Dutcher said. \u201cThe question is, are they going to do as they\u2019ve done in the past and maybe sit them a game or have them pay back the difference?\u201d<\/p>\n
When might the NCAA decide?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe send everything they want, we continue to send things in, and we\u2019re waiting for rulings,\u201d Dutcher said. \u201cHopefully, we get them this summer. But if it doesn\u2019t happen, it doesn\u2019t happen. I just hope we get them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Until then, he\u2019ll work with six or seven.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a sea change from this time a year ago, when Dutcher had close to a full roster for summer workouts \u2014 one that included numerous returnees familiar with their system. Of the players on the floor this week, only Simmons played significant minutes for the Aztecs last season.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s different, and it\u2019s supposed to be different,\u201d Dutcher said. \u201cWhen you have a veteran team back, they\u2019ve done a lot of this and they know it. Maybe their urgency isn\u2019t as great, but it\u2019s the summer, so how high do you want the urgency? With all these new guys, their urgency is higher.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if that\u2019s good or bad. I don\u2019t want to say, \u2018Well, the team with all the returners went slower.\u2019 I don\u2019t want to make it look like last year\u2019s team, because they weren\u2019t urgent in the summer, they weren\u2019t ready to go. They can go slower, they already know the system. But new guys, they come with a sense of urgency because it\u2019s all new to them, which I like.\u201d<\/p>\n
SDSU currently lists 13 players on its roster, 12 on scholarship plus walk-on Raymar Gonzales from Eastlake High School. The maximum for men\u2019s basketball under new regulations from the House settlement is 15.<\/p>\n
And there could be veteran players available, given the recent court injunction allowing fourth-year seniors from 2025-26 a fifth season of eligibility \u2014 at least until the case is adjudicated, however long that might take.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll wait and see where it all settles,\u201d Dutcher said. \u201cIf all the Europeans get cleared, we have enough players to be really good. If all of a sudden they don\u2019t clear one of my guys or two of my guys, then talent-wise we wouldn\u2019t be short-handed, but depth-wise we would be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Summer league update<\/p>\n
A look at how players with local ties are faring in the various NBA summer leagues:<\/p>\n
Reese Waters (SDSU): He appeared in two games for the Golden State Warriors in the California Summer League in early July, averaging 6.0 points and 3.0 rebounds in 19 minutes. He was not on the Warriors\u2019 roster for the Las Vegas Summer League that runs from July 9-19.<\/p>\n
Nate Mensah (SDSU): He\u2019s played three games in Las Vegas for the New Orleans Pelicans, averaging 1.3 points, 5.7 rebounds and 1.7 blocks.<\/p>\n
Nick Boyd\u00a0(SDSU): He got to do with the Warriors what he never did at SDSU, playing alongside Reese Waters (who was injured during Boyd\u2019s only season on the Mesa). He averaged 12.0 points and 7.5 assists in 25.5 minutes in two games in the earlier league, then 9.0 points and 3.5 rebounds in two games in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
Hayden Gray (UCSD): Signed by the Utah Jazz late last season, he\u2019s averaging 1.0 points, 2.5 assists and 2.0 steals in two Las Vegas games.<\/p>\n
Kobe Sanders (Christian High School): The Los Angeles Clippers\u2019 second-round pick last year from Nevada is averaging 13.0 points and 5.3 rebounds in 30 minutes in three games in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
Brandon Angel (Torrey Pines High School): He\u2019s averaging 1.5 points and 3.0 rebounds in 13.5 minutes for the Phoenix Suns in two games in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summer basketball workouts continue at San Diego State this week, and the good news is coach Brian Dutcher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1327,181,74,76,75,305,127],"class_list":["post-400059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-college-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sdsu-aztecs","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}