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
five good last learn minutes points seem teaching
I was concerned. We made those last five minutes seem like a year. But there were a lot of good teaching points in that. We had breakdowns but managed to get a win. We can learn from it.
known saw
If I saw him go up there, if I'd have known what was happening, I probably would have went up there with him.
eric hamilton played richard rip snow
I did it with Rip ( Richard Hamilton ), Eric Snow . How many times do you get to see your team? And he's so current. He played with all those guys.
perspective step
From my perspective, it's a big step forward.
against great player today
(Frye) was up against a great, great player today and didn't back up once.
focus
I don't think you can focus on the record. It's a marathon.
ball except expressed guys heard last playing pleased seven shot stuff until
I don't think you guys ever heard me say I wasn't pleased with the way he was playing until the last game. Even with all the other stuff that's going on every other week, I've never said anything except I was pleased with the way he's been playing and way he's trying. The last game, he was not aggressive. He shot the ball seven times. He deferred. I expressed that. That's one game.
except expect great guys happen heard last played playing pleased progress until
I don't think you guys ever heard me say I wasn't pleased with the way he's playing until the last game. I've never, ever said anything except I was pleased with the way he's playing, the way he's trying, and I thought he has been making great progress ... We've played twenty-some games. I don't expect this to happen overnight.
basketball hear love team tune
I don't tune them out at all. I hear it all. I'm embarrassed. I know how much they love basketball and love this team and want us to do well. And when we play poorly, I hear it, and it kills me because I'm responsible.
build direction gets kids opinion point talk win
If it gets to a point where it's going where we can't win a game, well, I think the young kids are going to have to play more because, obviously, we're going to try to build something here and that's probably the direction we need to go. But we talk every day, and I don't think there are any differences in opinion in what we should do.
address sure
If it was a big thing for him, I'm sure he would address that.
coaching happens hope improves
If something happens and it improves our team, it happens. If something doesn't happen you've got to keep coaching and hope you coach them better.
gave run tried
He's great. He made shots. He's phenomenal. We tried to run with him and gave up 71 points.
games quality win
This wasn't one of their better games but it's a quality win for us on the road.