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
great missed
It's great having him back. We've missed him.
plays run seems start
It seems when we get into a fight, we start going too much as individuals. I didn't see us run many plays at all.
discipline lack people run start tough
It's a tough loss. People start making a run at us and we feel like it's the end of the world. We just lack discipline when things get tough.
asking high might playing reflect terms
It wasn't only him (who was injured) at the time. But he was playing at such a high level. The first 30, 40 games, I thought he got better every game. His stats might not reflect that, but just in terms of what we were asking him to do. It set us way back and it set him way back.
anybody game hate
It was the kind of game where you hate to see anybody lose.
learn trying
It's tough, absolutely. We just have to learn from it and just keep trying to get better.
younger
I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.
eight facing publishing took work
It took me about eight years to work my way up to publishing the first book, that first collection, Facing the Music.
nephews nieces people york
It went great. We had probably between 150 and 175 people because that's what we set it up for. We had nieces and nephews from New York at the event.
coach might single
They come every single day and play with passion. It might not always be right. But when you don't have to coach effort, it's a big step.
gone happy kept pointed winning
They were teasing me about winning my first game. I was happy for them. They've gone through a lot. They haven't pointed any fingers. They just kept working.
chemistry gets mean means potential talent
Talent doesn't mean anything. Chemistry means everything. Potential gets you beat.
boston both game huge meant played teams
It's important both teams get better. If you look at what Boston meant to our league, every game they played was a huge rivalry.
believe gave good knows obviously traded
I told Eddy we obviously traded for him and gave up a lot because we really believe in him. He's the cornerstone. I look at him as our future. Him and Channing (Frye) . I don't know if he knows how good we think he can be.