Larry Brown
Larry Brown
Prolific basketball coach who led 8 NBA teams into the playoffs, won the NCAA Championship with Kansas and won an NBA Championship with Detroit.
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth14 September 1940
defensive difficult dribble transition
The thing that is difficult is that a lot of things that we have been working on, you don't see it getting better on the court: transition defense, defensive rebounding, dribble penetration,
eat everybody guys hockey partial room somebody special talk
The thing that always makes me partial to guys like him, all hockey players, is all they ever talk about is team. They room together. They eat together. And he's always been somebody everybody mentions as being such a special leader.
commitment committed guys sudden willing
The thing is they got guys that are willing to make a three-year commitment, which I think is tremendous. We had guys that committed and then all of a sudden 9/11 happened, and then there were injuries.
coached david except helps hurt hurts rotation san settled three year
I've never coached that way, where we've never had a set rotation, except my first year in San Antonio, we had a lot of injuries. That's really hurt the team. It hurts your progress. All of a sudden, we settled on David at the three and we have the three-guard rotation for the most part. It helps everybody, I think.
badly fans phenomenal
I want badly for us to do well, because of the fans here, ... They've been phenomenal over the years.
based college draft expect given guys key minutes opportunity played players playing respect teams won
Teams have won with young players playing key roles. A lot of teams draft based on potential, but we have guys here who have played in college for a while. They will respect the minutes they get, not expect them, and they will be given every opportunity to play.
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Sammy goes 1-for-6 but he impacted the whole game. He was phenomenal.
break good guard job points
Same old, same old - we can't guard anybody. We don't do a good job of getting back. They had 33 points on the break and could have had 100.
guard
Same old, same old. We can't guard anybody.
ends fun hopeful names period soon
That's not my place. I'm hopeful this ends soon because it's never any fun to go through a period like this and read your names in the paper.
kids
That's not fair! ... These kids are working their tails off!
ahead correct defensive explain extra
That's not fair. I don't know how to explain it. I don't know how to explain the turnovers, the defensive breakdowns, how we don't make the extra pass. But you can't look back. You have to look ahead and try to correct it.
fall saw wife worried
That's his wife up there. We were worried about Kendra. He saw her fall back and someone flailing.
concerned entirely happened man phenomenal stands
That's his wife. It's entirely different ... It was a phenomenal game. The thing that happened in the stands had nothing to do with it. A man was concerned about his family.