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
buy help impacts negative trying
Yeah, if he'll buy into what we're trying to do, which I don't think is very difficult, and I don't think it impacts him in a negative way at all. I think it will help him.
great help
Timmy would help anybody. It would be a great pickup.
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,
acting looked
We were acting like we just wanted to get home, It looked that way, didn't it? Didn't it look that way to you. It looked that way to me.
four hard paid testing worked
We worked hard over four years to demonstrate the fruitlessness of testing and now that work has paid off,
archery black bring decided high hispanic numbers saw throughout traveled
Over the years, as I traveled throughout the archery circuit, I saw there weren't high numbers of black or Hispanic participants. I decided to make a difference, to bring this sport to our neighborhoods.
defense guard interior learn worse
Our perimeter defense isn't any worse than our interior defense. We want all of them to learn how to guard and have that as a priority.
coached
They said I was OK. I went to practice. I coached the game. I'm fine. It's a non-issue.
certainly difficult figure hard steve trying
They've been all right. It's been hard to figure out who has to have the ball. It's certainly got to be more difficult for Steve because he hasn't been here, doesn't know a lot of the things that we're trying to do.
beat coached drum game last respect succeeded
They used to beat us like a drum when I was with Indiana, ... And I told our team, 'Let's just get him to uncross his legs.' And we succeeded in the last game I coached at Indiana. But I have a lot of respect for what he's done.
best darn difficult lose overcome
They started out pretty darn good, but when you lose an Allan Houston, you know, your best player, it's pretty difficult to overcome that.