Aleksander Radojevic, Barton County CC

Name:	Alexsander Radojevic
College:	Barton County CC
Height:	7'3"
Weight:	245
Class:	Sophomore
Position:	Center
Other Position:	N/A
NBA.com profile

Stats (Provided by JazzyJ)

                  G  MIN  FG  FGA  3P 3PA  FT FTA  REB  PF AST  TO BLK STL  PTS
97-98 Barton Co  33  ... 140  241   0   1  60 102  198 104  23  68  88  13  340
98-99 Barton Co  38 1072 231  381   2   3 121 191  342 132  49 101 153  34  585
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TOTALS           71 1072 371  622   2   4 181 293  540 236  72 169 241  47  925

                  MIN   FG%   3P%   FT%  RPG  APG  TPG  BPG  SPG   PPG
97-98 Barton Co   ...  58.1   0.0  58.8  6.0  0.7  2.1  2.7  0.4  10.3
98-99 Barton Co  28.2  60.6   0.0  63.4  9.0  1.3  2.7  4.0  0.9  15.4
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TOTALS           15.1  59.6   0.0  61.8  7.6  1.0  2.4  3.4  0.7  13.0

Scouting reports

Scout: JazzyJ

Radojevic was originally signed to go to Ohio State for the 1999-2000 season, but due to him having played professionally briefly back in Yugoslavia before coming over to the States (19 measly minutes), the NCAA declared him ineligible to play college ball, so he entered the NBA Draft. He actually really wanted to play for OSU, as 2 fellow countrymen are also on the team, and he would have made OSU a Final Four favorite. So instead, he enters the draft. Radojevic has been under the eyes of NBA scouts ever since his freshman year at Barton County CC (which he had to enroll at in order to come to the States; his English was not good enough for him to get into a regular 4-year school). While his stats have not been particularly gaudy his 2 years at Barton County CC, a lot of it has to do with the fact the teams he's played on have been stocked with Division I talent (Gordon Scott, Alton Mason, Lamont Roland, Michael Jackson, etc.). Still, he put up some good numbers on a team that reached the JUCO tournament final game his sophomore year. Now of course, there aren't a whole lot of players his height on the junior college level, but the Jayhawk JUCO conference is yearly one of the toughest JC conferences in the nation, and is filled with wide-body centers who will bang with the best of them. Radojevic might have been taller, but he would have been forced to get physical. Even so, he could stand to put on a little weight, but remains very agile and coordinated for his height. Offensively, he is still very raw, but continues to improve - almost game to game. Defensively, of course, he is a shot-blocking presence.

There is a lot of mystery surrounding Radojevic, mostly because since he only played at the JC level, many people have not had the opportunity to see him play. However, you can't teach height, and if all that is said about his agility and learning curve are true, this kid could really be a project worth gambling on. There's even been talk that he's a lottery pick, and one newspaper writer even said he should be the #1 overall pick (!!!). Just from what I have heard and read, he seems to remind me of current Cavs center Zydrunas Ilgauskas, except without the foot problems. If he turns out to be anything close to what Ilgauskas is, it would certainly be a great catch for the team that drafts him.