Oregon’s Tyler Dorsey declares for NBA Draft

Oregon’s sophomore guard Tyler Dorsey has declared for the 2017 NBA draft, joining a draft that is already loaded with great future NBA talent.

It was announced late Monday evening that Tyler Dorsey has declared for the 2017 NBA Draft.

Dorsey was the second leading scorer for the Oregon Ducks men’s basketball team with a scoring average of 14.6 points per game. He also led the team with 88 3-point field goals made, on a solid 42 percent shooting from deep. Dorsey was one of the main reasons why the Ducks appeared in the Final Four this past season, as he scored at least 20 points a game in each of their tournament games, including 21 points in the national semifinal in which his team lost to the eventual champs, North Carolina.

He averaged 13.4 points per game on 40 percent shooting from deep during his freshman season, so it was nice to see him up his scoring average to 14.6 points per game on 46 percent shooting from deep this past season. He put on a show during the NCAA Tournament, and received a lot of national exposure for his clutch shooting that he is hoping will get him drafted in this year’s NBA Draft.

Dorsey has not received as much love as his teammate Dillion Brooks has, but he deserves a lot of credit for the season he had, and could potentially be a second-round pick in the upcoming draft. There is the potential of him moving up higher in the draft if he can display that sweet shooting form he did during this year’s NCAA Tournament in which he averaged 23.8 points per game. Without him, Oregon may have never made it as far as they did in the tournament, and we could potentially see him making three pointers in a NBA jersey next season because of that.