Duke has put together another really impressive freshman class and one of the reasons people are excited is Dame Sarr. A 6-8 kid out of Italy, Sarr brings a lot of versatility to the roster. He should be plug and play at either forward spot or as the second guard – basically anywhere on the wing. He may or may not start and actually he may be much more valuable as the first guy off the bench.<\/p>\n
This article looks more at his NBA potential, which should continue to rise throughout the season.<\/p>\n
Sarr really rose to prominence at the Nike Hoop Summit this spring, and there\u2019s an interesting story there.<\/p>\n
Sarr had been playing for Barcelona, but his team did not want him in Portland. Sarr defied them, bet on himself and went anyway. He made a huge impression and is now a Blue Devil. Barcelona cut ties with him as a result, but he\u2019s in a vastly better situation now, so his stubbornness paid off.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s going to have to adjust to college basketball of course. European basketball is good but not at all the same. Assuming he can make the adjustment, which seems like a reasonable bet, his versatility should pay big dividends for the Blue Devils this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duke has put together another really impressive freshman class and one of the reasons people are excited is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,6320,398,400,401,99],"class_list":["post-106879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-main","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}