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.

[5][6] 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.

Other Partizan teammates that the newcomer Pecarski had already known well from his previous Yugoslavia youth national team participations were twenty-year-old Saša Đorđević and twenty-one-year-olds Žarko Paspalj and Ivo Nakić.

[7] Two months later, Partizan made the European Champions Cup Final Four in Ghent, Belgium, losing to Maccabi Tel Aviv in a closely contested semifinal with Pecarski contributing 8 points.

However, the up-and-coming Boža Maljković-coached Jugoplastika team, featuring exceptional prospects Toni Kukoč and Dino Rađa, proved too much in the final series, beating Partizan 2-games-to-1 including the deciding game 3 blowout, 88-67, in Split.

[9] After completing the 1988-89 season with Marist—in anticipation of the NBA draft where he had been set to be picked according to most projections (including Sports Illustrated's)—Pecarski came back to KK Partizan, re-joining them in April 1989 ahead of the Yugoslav League playoffs final series versus Jugoplastika.

[10] Returning to the club whose roster more-or-less stayed intact compared to the squad he had left the previous summer; the only difference being Goran Grbović replaced with young Predrag Danilović at small forward.

In addition to his native Serbia, Pecarski also holds Greek citizenship — obtained for practical reasons of playing without EU administrative restrictions while in the country between 1991 and 1997.

Thirty years later, their sons Marko Pecarski and Balša Koprivica, respectively, played together on the Serbia national under-18 basketball team,[13] winning gold at the 2017 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship.