Bryan Warrick

Bryan Anthony Warrick ( born July 22, 1959 in Moses Lake, Washington ) is a former American professional basketball player. Warrick played several years in the most highly endowed U.S. professional league NBA and minor league CBA. At the conclusion of his playing career he played in the 1987/88 season still a season in the German basketball league at the former German champions BSC Saturn from Cologne. Then Warrick worked as a sports teacher and was a long time coach of the basketball team in high school in Burlington, where he was even going to school. For his contributions to the sport at his high school, he was accepted in 2009 in the " Athletic Hall of Fame" ( German Hall of Fame Sports).

Career

College

Born and raised in New Jersey moved to Warrick degree in 1978 at the former Saint Joseph's College in Philadelphia, which got accepted to university status at year end. The high school team Hawks heard in Philadelphia at the so-called "Big 5" with the other high school teams in the city, which deliver their own championships and delivered fierce local battles. The Hawks won this championship in Warrick's active time three times as well as 1981 and 1982 and the championship tournament of the former "East Coast Conference " of the NCAA Division I., in 1981 it reached the national finals the quarter-finals " Elite Eight ", after previously defeated three teams which were placed in the seedings before the Hawks. In the " Regional Final " but then it was clearly beaten by the eventual champion, the " Hoosiers " Indiana University. The following year would retire then reversed in the very first round against a worse team set out.

NBA / CBA

In NBA Draft 1982 Warrick was in the second round by 25 out of the Bullets from Washington, DC selected. In his first season he was used in almost half of the season games, which he half again as " starter " began at 17 minutes operating time per game. In the second season 1983/84 he could only be used in 32 games with significantly reduced operating time. In the season 1984/85 he moved in a player exchange to the West Coast to the Clippers in Los Angeles. Here is his use of time increased again to more than ten minutes per game. Since here also failed to breakthrough for Warrick, he was released in March 1985 from his contract. For the following season, he was early in the season for five games with the Milwaukee Bucks under contract before it was released here. For the next three months, he then played for the Wisconsin Flyers in the CBA before the Indiana Pacers took him under contract in February 1986, where he was also employed in individual games again as a starter and in 31 games over 20 minutes per game. Jack Ramsay, the new coach of the Pacers and even long-time coach of the St. Joseph's Hawks in the 1960s the team built, after two disappointing seasons, but by and Warrick was first made for the following season by the Golden State Warriors pre-season under contract, but then no longer obligated for the regular season. Warrick himself played another season in the CBA with Rockford Lightning, with whom he reached the final series of the league. Here one but lost against the Rapid City Thrillers, led by Clinton Wheeler, himself later at the Cologne Bundesliga player rivals TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

Europe

In 1986, Tony DiLeo coach of BSC Saturn Köln and had become equal to the Rhineland rivals Leverkusen dethroned in his first year as champion. DiLeo, a native of Philadelphia, had played until 1978 even for the Explorers of La Salle University and thus for one of the Big 5 college teams. In the season 1987/88 DiLeo Warrick caught up in the German basketball league and you could defend the championship title successfully. Together with Warrick's compatriot Ralph McPherson, which was set up under the then existing in the Bundesliga foreigners control almost exclusively in European games, you also reached the main round of the European Cup of Champions, however, where you eliminated in the group stage. Then Warrick was no longer professionally active as a player.