Dallas Mavericks: Nicolas Brussino a Non-Factor in Rio

New Dallas Mavericks player, Nicolas Brussino, showed very little in Argentina’s time in Rio, but does that mean he will not be able to help Dallas at some point?

The Dallas Mavericks made a handful of moves that were very surprising this summer to most people. Harrison Barnes and Andrew Bogut were a bit of a pleasant surprise for Mavs fans, but not shocking that we pursued them.

Past the big two names from this offseason, the Mavs grabbed Seth Curry and a big group of rookies. Players like Kyle Collinsworth, A.J. Hammons, and Jonathan Gibson were unsurprising to land smaller contracts, but some were out of the blue.

One of those out of the blue contracts happens to be Argentinian, Nicolas Brussino. Brussino is one of the young, pormising foreign guards headed to the league that has been scouted for awhile, but the Mavericks jumped on him early and made an offer.

Fast forward a little bit and Brussino finds himself on the Argentina Olympic team. This was a cool thing for the Mavericks because it was going to give the team a look at one of their young players that they did not know a whole lot about.

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Sadly, that look for Dallas was more limited than expected. Brussino fell behind the veterans of the Argentina team and never fought his way into the rotation. In 6 games for Team Argentina this Olympics, Brussino played in only 3 of them.

In those 3 games that he did play, he scored only 2 points and grabbed only 2 rebounds per contest. That is below average even for a young player like him. It is not all bad though.

Even though Brussino did not help Argentina much, that does not mean he will be incapable of helping the Mavericks. When signing a rookie, expectations will be very small in the first season no matter what. Brussino has the size and the tools to be a great player and the fact that he is in the organization is a great thing for Dallas.

Much like Harrison Barnes was the last man off the bench for Team USA, Brussino did the same in Argentina. Barnes is expected to do great things in Dallas regardless of his standing on the national team.

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Even though it is hard to gather much from Brussino’s lack of play in Rio, it is too early to count him out as a potential role player for Dallas. Some players just need a little more time to develop and Brussino could turn into a great player. Only time will tell.

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