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Who is the best basketball player of the Jazz assistant coaches? There are three candidates, Will Hardy said: Chris Jones, who played his collegiate basketball at Pittsburgh, Evan Bradds, who played at Belmont, and Andrew Warren, from Bradley University. Jones was the most frequent nominee when Jazz players were asked about the issue, though Bradds’ overall offensive talents were frequently noted. Warren is the assistant coaching team’s best shooter, which makes sense — he’s also the team’s lead shooting coach.
Current University of New Mexico men’s basketball assistant Jerome Robinson, then a star wing at Bradley University, was considered one of Team Canada’s defensive stoppers. In an hourlong conversation recently with the Journal for Episode 14 of the Talking Grammer Podcast, Robinson explained what happened that day when Triano told him he’d have to guard some Argentine player named Manu Ginobili, whom Robinson admits he didn’t yet know.
Krause turned 73 in April. Nine years have passed since the general manager for all six Bulls title teams left the franchise under the softening caveat of health reasons. He has scouted for the Yankees, Mets, White Sox and Diamondbacks since, running his resume total to eight baseball and four basketball teams. Fifty-one years after leaving Bradley University to take a $65-per-week job as a glorified gofer for the Cubs, Krause's excitement for scouting remains — on most days — as bright as the yellow polo shirt he is wearing atop blue chinos. "What the hell else would I do?" Krause says. "If I didn't work, I'd probably go goofy." Krause has kept a low profile since his successful and polarizing Bulls run ended. He has stayed mostly silent as he gets alternately vilified or praised. But he accepted the Tribune's request to revisit his Chicago roots, to be watched plying his trade, to tell his story.
Former NBA and college coach Dick Versace is contemplating a comeback and has expressed interest in the Eastern Illinois men's basketball opening. Versace, 71, last coached as a Milwaukee Bucks assistant in 1998. He was also previously the head coach for the Indiana Pacers and Bradley University, general manager for the Vancouver Grizzlies and a television commentator. "I've been looking at it. I've been researching the school," Versace said Sunday while observing a high school club team practice. "I am what I am. I'm a coach. "I'm not looking at their end of it. I'm looking at my end of it -- what do they bring to the table versus what I bring to the table, and do they see the value of making a hire like me. I'm going to give them a higher profile than they've ever had in basketball. The athletic director has to see value in that. I've always been known as a great teacher of the game."
Former NBA coach Dick Versace says he is interested in the vacant men's basketball head coaching position at Eastern Illinois University. Versace, who coached Bradley University's 1982 NIT championship team and the Indiana Pacers from 1988-91, admitted his hiring by Eastern Illinois would be "an out of the box hire." But he told the Charleston Times Courier it might be what they need.
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