TOM BARRISE is in his 14th season with the New Jersey Nets and his sixth full season as an assistant coach. Tom joined the assistant coach ranks in January of 2004 when Lawrence Frank took over as head coach.

Prior to his current position, Barrise served as the Nets' advance scout for eight seasons. His work and insight were key elements for the Nets coaching staff during the team's two consecutive trips to the NBA Finals with regards to their preparation of the game plan for the team's upcoming opposition.

Barrise has a long and varied connection with basketball, on both the collegiate and profes sional levels. Prior to joining the Nets, Tom was the head basketball coach for three seasons (1992-95) at Ramapo College in Mahwah, New Jersey, while also performing advance scout duties for the Cleveland Cavaliers (1992-96). His basketball coaching odyssey also includes stints at St. Peter's College, Fairfield University, East Carolina University, Jacksonville University, William Paterson College and Fairleigh Dickinson University.

A native of Paterson, New Jersey, Barrise was a two-sport athlete at Fairleigh Dickinson University (soccer and basketball), from where he earned a B.A. in education.

Tom has one son, Taylor, a sophomore at Amherst, and currently resides in Ramsey, New Jersey.

JOHN LOYER is entering his first season as an assistant coach for the Nets, following four seasons in the same position for the Philadelphia 76ers. Prior to his time in Philadelphia, Loyer spent a total of five seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers as the team's video coordinator (2000-01), advance scout (2001-03) and assistant coach (2003-05).

Before joining the Trail Blazers staff in 2000, Loyer spent 12 years in the collegiate coaching ranks with stops at Wabash Valley College (1999-00), University of Akron (1987-89) and the University of Cincinnati (1989-99). He was an assistant at Cincinnati for 10 years during which time the Bearcats made it to the Final Four once and twice to the Elite Eight.

Overall, while an assistant coach on the college level, teams he worked with posted a 234-86 (.731) record. The team Loyer recruited at Wabash Valley College went on to win the 2001 National Junior College championship.

A 1988 graduate of the University of Akron, Loyer was a four-year letterman in basketball and earned a degree in social studies. He and his wife Katie have three children, sons Foster and Fletcher, and daughter, Jersey.

ROY ROGERS begins his second season with the Nets as an assistant on Lawrence Frank's staff. Before joining the Nets, Rogers had served as an assistant coach for the Austin Toros of the NBA Development League during the 2007-08 season. Prior to his stint in Austin, Rogers spent two seasons (2005-06 and 2006-07) with the Tulsa 66ers. He began his coaching career in 2004 as an assistant with the Huntsville Flight, now the Albuquerque Thunderbirds.

Selected 22nd overall in the 1996 NBA Draft out of the University of Alabama, Rogers spent three years in the NBA. In 137 career games with four teams (Vancouver, Boston, Toronto and Denver),Rogers averaged 4.8 points and 3.5 rebounds. Rogers also played four seasons (2000- 04) of professional basketball internationally, with stops in Russia, Italy, Greece and Poland.

Roy and his wife, Patricia, have four children, Jasmine, Jordan, Saige and Sebastian.

DOUG OVERTON enters his second season with the Nets as an assistant on Lawrence Frank's staff. Overton began his coaching career as an assistant coach for Phil Martelli at Saint Joseph's during the 2006-07 and 2007-08 campaigns. Prior to his position at Saint Joseph's, the Philadelphia native spent the 2005-06 season as the director of player development for the Philadelphia 76ers, where he assisted the coaching and scouting staffs and worked with the team's community outreach programs.

An 11-year NBA veteran, Overton spent three different stints with the Nets (1998-99, 2000-01 and 2003-04), averaging 6.0 points and 2.8 assists in 26 games. In 499 career games with seven teams (Washington, Denver, Orlando, New Jersey, Boston, Charlotte Hornets and Philadelphia), the former point guard averaged 4.5 points and 2.1 points.

Overton currently resides in the Philadelphia area with his wife, Chanel, son, Miles and daughter, Maya.

RICH DALATRI returned for his second stint with the New Jersey Nets in 1997-98, having served in a similar capacity from 1987-92. Dalatri was the first full-time strength and conditioning coach in the NBA when the Nets hired him in 1987. Dalatri worked for the Cleveland Cavaliers for two seasons as well as in the Italian Professional League, where he was the athletic coach for Phonola Caserta for two years and Fortitudo Bologna for two seasons. Dalatri is responsible for coordinating strength, conditioning and flexibility programs during both the NBA regular season as well as the off-season months. He also assists in developing the players' individual nutritional programs as well as implementing programs for many teams and individual players in Europe. In the summer of 2001, Dalatri was named the athletic coach for the Italian National Team, who won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Dalatri is considered one of the leading authorities in European basketball circles on strength and conditioning, and spends his summers in Europe speaking and conducting basketball camps and numerous basketball clinics. He uses his extensive knowledge of European basketball to aid the Nets in scouting. In addition to his European experience, Dalatri's resume includes working for the New York Giants (1988-91), serving as the strength and conditioning coach at the University of Mississippi (1983-86), as well as serving as the personal trainer for recording artist Jon Bon Jovi. Rich's credentials include: Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist-National Strength and Conditioning Association; Certified Speed and Explosiveness Specialist-National Speed and Explosiveness Association; Certified Expert in Soviet Training-Soviet Institute of Sport Moscow and Certified U.S. Weightlifting Coach for the U.S. Weightlifting Federation. Dalatri also wrote a chapter on strength training for the NBA's fitness book, "Total Fitness the NBA Way." In addition, Dalatri has had numerous articles published in Italian sports journals, and his book, "Preparation For Basketball", was published and sold in Europe in 2003. In 2001, Dalatri was inducted into the Shore Conference Hall Of Fame.

Dalatri was an offensive lineman for Villanova and Louisiana Tech in college and graduated from Tech with a bachelor's degree in general studies, with a concentration in exercise physiology. He signed a professional contract with the Denver Gold of the USFL in 1983. Rich and his wife, Elvy, have four sons, Richard, James, Gian-Luca and Andrea, and one daughter, Isabella, and they reside in Wall Township, New Jersey.