The #2 pick in the 2003 Draft, 20-year-old Darko Milicic has seen very little action in his first two years in the NBA.

However, Detroit Pistons? president of basketball operations Joe Dumars remains optimistic about Darko?s future with the Pistons organization.

Darko broke his hand in the Pistons championship clincher against the Lakers last season and used the summer to recover.  Before he came to Detroit he was not able to play summer ball as he was negotiating a buyout from his Yugoslavia club team, Hemorfarm Vrsac, making this off-season Darko?s first chance to participate in an actual summer league.

"It's important for him to continue to develop and get better," Dumars says. "I want him to show his all-around game. He's talented. He's been showing stuff, but it's in practice."

"When he did get a chance to play at the end of the season, he showed tremendous promise," Dumars said. "Then everybody all of sudden is saying, 'Wow, this kid looks like he's going to be a good player.' That's what we've been sort of saying quietly all along for two years now. Don't judge this kid on the fact that he's not playing in front of Rasheed Wallace, Ben Wallace and Antonio McDyess."