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Miroslav Pecarski
Miroslav Pecarski (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав Пецарски; born 21 March 1967) is a Serbian former professional basketball player. He played professionally for Partizan, Aris, Panathinaikos, Panionios, Pallacanestro Cantù, Cholet and Cabitel Gijón.
Following a growth spurt at age thirteen, teenage Pecarski began pursuing basketball in his hometown Kikinda.
Marking himself out with height and strong build, the teenager received a call-up to the Rusmir Halilović-coached Yugoslav cadet team during summer 1983.
Teenage Pecarski left his home to go play college basketball at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, arriving there in summer 1984 under the newly appointed head coach Matt Furjanic. Considered by some to be Europe's top seventeen-year-old player—having just played a significant role on the bronze-winning Yugoslav junior national team at the European Junior Championship in Sweden and starring on the gold-winning Yugoslav cadet team at the European Cadet Championship in West Germany the year before—Pecarski was injured in the preseason thus opening up an opportunity at center for another newly acquired European prospect, eighteen-year-old Dutchman Rik Smits.
The Red Foxes had a successful 1985–86 season, making the 64-team NCAA tournament for the first time in team's history. However, they went out at the very first hurdle in the first round of the Southeast regional bracket, losing by 15 points versus the Georgia Tech team featuring future NBA players Mark Price, John Salley, Tom Hammonds, Duane Ferrell, and Craig Neal. Pecarski averaged 10.5 points per game and 5.9 rebounds per game over the entire season.
During summer 1986, Pecarski played on the Svetislav Pešić-coached Yugoslav junior national team at the European Junior Championship in Austria.
The following season, playing under new head coach Dave Magarity, Pecarski improved his scoring average to 12.4 points per game and led the team in rebounds with 8.4 boards per game, as the Red Foxes repeated the feat of making the NCAA tournament, but were again eliminated in the first round—this time by Pittsburgh.
Following making the Svetislav Pešić-coached gold medal-winning Yugoslavia under-19 team at the FIBA Under-19 World Championship during summer 1987 in Bormio, Pecarski opted not to play for the Red Foxes in the 1987–88 season, choosing to explore his options in Europe by going back to Yugoslavia and signing a stipend-based contract with reigning Yugoslav League champions KK Partizan in hopes of giving himself a better shot at making the Yugoslavia roster for the 1988 Olympics. Pecarski's other considerations for transferring to Partizan included the fact that the club's vice-president, Yugoslav basketball legend Dragan Kićanović, personally recruited and pursued the youngster.
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Miroslav Pecarski
Miroslav Pecarski (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав Пецарски; born 21 March 1967) is a Serbian former professional basketball player. He played professionally for Partizan, Aris, Panathinaikos, Panionios, Pallacanestro Cantù, Cholet and Cabitel Gijón.
Following a growth spurt at age thirteen, teenage Pecarski began pursuing basketball in his hometown Kikinda.
Marking himself out with height and strong build, the teenager received a call-up to the Rusmir Halilović-coached Yugoslav cadet team during summer 1983.
Teenage Pecarski left his home to go play college basketball at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, arriving there in summer 1984 under the newly appointed head coach Matt Furjanic. Considered by some to be Europe's top seventeen-year-old player—having just played a significant role on the bronze-winning Yugoslav junior national team at the European Junior Championship in Sweden and starring on the gold-winning Yugoslav cadet team at the European Cadet Championship in West Germany the year before—Pecarski was injured in the preseason thus opening up an opportunity at center for another newly acquired European prospect, eighteen-year-old Dutchman Rik Smits.
The Red Foxes had a successful 1985–86 season, making the 64-team NCAA tournament for the first time in team's history. However, they went out at the very first hurdle in the first round of the Southeast regional bracket, losing by 15 points versus the Georgia Tech team featuring future NBA players Mark Price, John Salley, Tom Hammonds, Duane Ferrell, and Craig Neal. Pecarski averaged 10.5 points per game and 5.9 rebounds per game over the entire season.
During summer 1986, Pecarski played on the Svetislav Pešić-coached Yugoslav junior national team at the European Junior Championship in Austria.
The following season, playing under new head coach Dave Magarity, Pecarski improved his scoring average to 12.4 points per game and led the team in rebounds with 8.4 boards per game, as the Red Foxes repeated the feat of making the NCAA tournament, but were again eliminated in the first round—this time by Pittsburgh.
Following making the Svetislav Pešić-coached gold medal-winning Yugoslavia under-19 team at the FIBA Under-19 World Championship during summer 1987 in Bormio, Pecarski opted not to play for the Red Foxes in the 1987–88 season, choosing to explore his options in Europe by going back to Yugoslavia and signing a stipend-based contract with reigning Yugoslav League champions KK Partizan in hopes of giving himself a better shot at making the Yugoslavia roster for the 1988 Olympics. Pecarski's other considerations for transferring to Partizan included the fact that the club's vice-president, Yugoslav basketball legend Dragan Kićanović, personally recruited and pursued the youngster.