James Andrisevic (born January 22, 1982) is an American basketball coach and former professional player.

Jamie Andrisevic
Personal information
Born (1982-01-22) January 22, 1982 (age 42)
Kansas City, Missouri
NationalityAmerican
Listed height206 cm (6 ft 9 in)
Listed weight103 kg (227 lb)
Career information
High schoolLee's Summit
(Lee's Summit, Missouri)
College
NBA draft2005: undrafted
Playing career2005–2009
PositionForward
Coaching career2009–present
Career history
As player:
2005–2006Basketball Academie Limburg
2006–2007Horsens Basketball Club
2008–2009TuS Treis-Karden
As coach:
2009–2011Drake (assistant)
2011–2012Asker Aliens B.C.
2012BC Prievidza
2013–2016Santa Cruz Warriors (assistant)
2016Changwon LG Sakers (assistant)
2016–2017Kyoto Hannaryz (assistant)
2017Hiroshima Dragonflies
2018–2019Northern Arizona Suns (assistant)
2019–2023Santa Cruz Warriors (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
As assistant coach:

Career

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Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Andrisevic played basketball at Lee's Summit North High School in Lee's Summit, Missouri. A 6'9" power forward-center, he kicked off his college career at Johnson County Community College in 2000 and was a member of the 2001 NJCAA National Championship team,[1] before transferring to Arizona State University in 2002. He played a total of 13 games for Arizona State tallying four points and ten rebounds.[2]

Upon graduation 2005, Andrisevic, who earned a bachelor of arts degree in finance in 2004 and a bachelor of arts degree in marketing in 2005,[1] took his game to Germany where he played professionally and also spent some time in Denmark.[3]

Andrisevic served as graduate team manager[4] and program coordinator of the men’s basketball team at Drake University from 2009 to 2011, his first head coaching position came during the 2011–12 season, when he guided the Asker Aliens of Norway’s top-flight BLNO.[5] Under his tutelage, the Aliens reached the BLNO finals that year.[6] Following a short stint as head coach of Slovakian side BC Prievidza,[7] Andrisevic was named assistant coach with the Santa Cruz Warriors of the NBA D-League in 2013. He helped the Warriors win the 2015 D-League championship title and was promoted associate head coach for the 2015–16 season.[8]

In 2016, he worked as an assistant coach at Changwon LG Sakers, followed by a one-year tenure as assistant at Kyoto Hannaryz.[9] In 2017–18, Andrisevic served as head coach of the Hiroshima Dragonflies in the Japanese B.League.[10] In 2019, Andrisevic returned to the Santa Cruz Warriors in an assistant coaching role and has remained there. [11]

Head coaching record

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Legend
Regular season G Games coached W Games won L Games lost W–L % Win–loss %
Playoffs PG Playoff games PW Playoff wins PL Playoff losses PW–L % Playoff win–loss %
Team Year G W L W–L% Finish PG PW PL PW–L% Result
Hiroshima Dragonflies 2017 17 8 9 .471 Fired - - - -

References

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  1. ^ a b "Drake University Athletics – 2010 Men's Basketball Coaching Staff". godrakebulldogs.com. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  2. ^ "Jamie Andrisevic College Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  3. ^ "danskbasket.dk – Basketliga – Jamie Andrisevic til Horsens BC". www.danskbasket.dk. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  4. ^ "Drake University Athletics – 2009 Men's Basketball Coaching Staff". www.godrakebulldogs.com. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  5. ^ "Drake staffer accepts Euro job – HoopDirt". HoopDirt. 2011-08-15. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  6. ^ "BLNO_2011-2012 Basketball League NORWAY – eurobasket". www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  7. ^ "Majstrovskú Prievidzu povedie americký tréner Andrisevic". Šport7.sk (in Slovak). 2012-07-11. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  8. ^ "NBA D-League Champion Head Coach Casey Hill Returns to Santa Cruz". Santa Cruz Warriors. Archived from the original on 2017-08-11. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  9. ^ Odeven, Ed (2017-06-23). "Andrisevic named new Hiroshima Dragonflies coach". The Japan Times Online. ISSN 0447-5763. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  10. ^ Hiroshima Dragonflies (23 June 2017). "ジェイミー・アンドリセビッチ氏 ヘッドコーチ契約合意(新規)のお知らせ". Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  11. ^ "Santa Cruz Warriors reveal training camp roster | G League basketball". 28 October 2019.