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
compete fun watching younger
We got close, but did not get it done. But it was fun watching them compete and watching the younger guys.
beat becomes bunch dribble guys jason pass shoot
We got beat on dribble penetration and that was huge. They have a bunch of guys that can shoot and pass the ball. When you have Jason (Kidd), it becomes contagious.
areas good needed talking three
Those are three areas we were talking about. We needed to do a good job, especially on the road. So that's disappointing.
open search
We'll have a very thorough, open search that's nationwide,
coach head jersey lasted terrible
Well, obviously, I was dumb, ... But, you know, I only lasted two years there. He probably would have been the head coach of New Jersey and had a terrible career.
judge people
Unfortunately, sometimes how you look is how people judge you.
care country importance starting understand
We don't have them all, but they're starting to care about each other and understand the importance of representing our country the right way,
against almost front good guard job keeping people plays script trouble
We can't guard anybody. We don't do a good job of getting back. We have trouble keeping people in front and it's almost like people script plays against us.
almost care impossible success
We can't give up. If you don't take care of the basketball, it's going to be almost impossible to have any success at all.
character culture darn early good guys knowing needed played priorities problems similar style tough
We played pretty darn good after All-Star break. We were about .500 and we set up a culture that enabled us to be pretty good from then on. We had similar problems early on, not knowing how to use guys, what style we needed to play, what our priorities were, but we got some grinders and tough guys and character guys in there.
coaching game guys hard hope losing positive stop talk tough trying
When you're losing game after game after game it's tough. It's hard to keep them up. It's hard to get guys to keep competing. It's really tough on the young kids. But you can't stop coaching and trying to get better. You hope you have something positive to talk about.
bring brought guys key people
We had a lot of guys that didn't bring it tonight. And they had a lot of people that brought it. We had a lot of key guys that were just out there.
against building feels good guys people road team win
We had a lot of guys contribute. To win one on the road against a pretty good team is a good feeling. ... People don't win in this building much, so it feels good.
bit clock good overall stuff
We had a little more poise. We used the clock a little bit better. I think we got into our stuff a little bit better. I think overall we did a lot of good things.