Bryan Warrick

Bryan Warrick
Player information
Full name	Bryan Anthony Warrick
birthday	July 22, 1959 (61 years and 40 days)
place of birth	Moses Lake (WA), USA
size	196 cm
position	Point Guard / Shooting Guard
college	Saint Joseph's
NBA draft	1982 , 25th Pick, Washington Bullets
Clubs as active
1978–1982 St. Joseph's Hawks ( NCAA ) 1982–1984 Washington Bullets 1984–1985 Los Angeles Clippers 1985 Milwaukee Bucks 1985–1986 Wisconsin Flyers ( CBA ) 1986 Indiana Pacers 1986–1987 Rockford Lightning (CBA) 1987–1988 BSC Saturn Cologne 00000 00000

Bryan Anthony Warrick (born July 22, 1959 in Moses Lake , Washington ) is a retired American basketball player . Warrick played for a few years in the highest endowed US professional league NBA and the minor league CBA . At the end of his playing career, he played one more season in the German basketball league in the 1987/88 season with the then German champions BSC Saturn from Cologne . Warrick then worked as a PE teacher and was a long time coach of the basketball team at the high school in Burlington , where he himself had gone to school. For his services to sport at his high school, he was inducted into their “Athletic Hall of Fame” ( German  Hall of Fame of Sports ) in 2009 .

Career

college

In New Jersey grew joined Warrick to study in 1978 at the former Saint Joseph's College in Philadelphia , which at the end of the university status was recognized. The Hawks university team in Philadelphia is one of the so-called “Big 5” with the other university teams in the city, which have their own championship and fierce local duels. The Hawks won this championship in Warrick's active time three times and in 1981 and 1982 and the championship tournament of the former "East Coast Conference" of the NCAA Division I in 1981 was achieved in the national finals the quarterfinals Elite Eight after defeating three teams before, in on the seeding list before the Hawks were placed. In the "Regional Final", however, you were clearly beaten by the future champion, the "Hoosiers" of Indiana University . In the following year, conversely, they were eliminated in the first round against a worse seeded team.

NBA / CBA

In the 1982 NBA Draft , Warrick was selected in the second round in 25th place by the Bullets of Washington, DC . In his first season he was used in almost half of the season's games, half of which he began as a " starter " with almost 17 minutes of playing time per game. In the second season 1983/84 he could only be used in 32 games with a significantly reduced operating time. For the season 1984/85 he switched to the West Coast to the Clippers from Los Angeles in a player swap . Here his playing time increased again to over ten minutes per game. Since there was no breakthrough for Warrick either, he was released from his contract in March 1985. For the following season he was at the start of the season for five games with the Milwaukee Bucks under contract before he was also released here. For the following three months he then played for the Wisconsin Flyers in the CBA, before the Indiana Pacers signed him in February 1986, in which he was used again as a starter in individual games and in 31 games over 20 minutes per game. Jack Ramsay , the Pacers' new coach and long-time coach of the St. Joseph's Hawks himself in the 1960s, however, rebuilt the team after two disappointing seasons and Warrick was initially signed by the Golden State Warriors before the start of the season, but for the following season then no longer required for the regular season. Warrick himself played another season in the CBA at Rockford Lightning, with which he reached the final series of the league. Here, however, they lost against the Rapid City Thrillers, which were led by Clinton Wheeler , even later Bundesliga players at Cologne rival TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen .

Europe

In 1986 Tony DiLeo became the trainer of the BSC Saturn Cologne and in his first year dethroned the Rhenish rival Leverkusen as champion. DiLeo, a native of Philadelphia, had played for the Explorers of La Salle University and thus for one of the Big 5 university teams until 1978 . For the season 1987/88 DiLeo brought Warrick into the German basketball league and one could successfully defend the championship title. Together with Warrick's compatriot Ralph McPherson , who was almost only used in European Cup games due to the foreigner regulation that existed in the Bundesliga at the time, they also reached the main round in the European Cup , where they were eliminated in the group games. Then Warrick was no longer professionally active as a player.

Web links

• Bryan Warrick - player profile on basketball-reference.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ NN: City of Burlington Schools Athletic Hall of Fame. 8th Annual Induction Ceremony. (Page 14) ( June 26, 2010 memento on the Internet Archive ) Archived from City of Burlington High School website; Burlington, NJ, May 2, 2009. Retrieved February 20, 2019 (in English).