Nick Dorn: Player profile breakdown

Indiana lands 6-foot-7 guard Nick Dorn from Elon

Nick Dorn

6-foot-7, 200-pound sophomore guard from Elon

• Only played 25 games, missed the remainder of the season with a lower-body injury

Avgs: 15.2 pts, 3.8 reb, 0.8 ast

Splits: 37.4% FG — 35.1 % 3PT — 80.5 % FT

Strengths

• High usage, wing with guard skills and attack mentality — took 26.5 % of Elon’s shots last season

• Gets after it in transition, 1.27 points per possession on the break, 81st percentile

  • Again….attack, attack, attack

• Spot up shooting — has range, attempted over 8 3s a game, making 35% of them — 211 attempts on the season, best off catch, slow release where he brings the ball from low to high — 75th percentile catch and shoot

  • Excellent shooting off screens, loves the corners

• Opportunistic cutter

Weaknesses

• Right-hand dominant, uncomfortable going left

• Needs to be more comfortable shooting off the dribble, especially creating for himself in the midrange — he rushes and panics when caught off guard by defenders

• Not a confident ball handler, 0.8 assists, 1.2 TO

  • But can score on ball screens — 84th percentile as ball screen handler

Fit on IU

• Similar profile as Jasai Miles, without the rebounding tendencies

• Wing shooter with size

• Defensive versatility

• Bench role with room to grow (two years of eligibility remaining)

• Fits the themes of players Darian DeVries has brought in on the wing: strong shooting capabilities with size, multiple years of eligibility, versatility on both ends

Breakdown

P.S. With how much time these take me to put together, I don’t have the time to do a full write-up on each player right now, so I’m switching these over to a bullet-pointed format with my notes. The video portions will remain the same. This newsletter has gained so much support recently, thanks for reading and following. In the offseason, there isn’t much room for commentary, but I’ll have more of that soon after the roster starts to become more finalized — I’ve enjoyed working on these videos. Sam Alexis profile tomorrow.