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
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.
camp explaining felt guys hardest included job kids last outside ready showing talking telling terms training
Allan told me after I got the job one of the hardest things for him was the last two years he's kind of felt a little outside in terms of telling guys things he thought were obvious. He didn't feel like he was included as much. That's why we were talking about how much he wanted to be ready for the first day of training camp so he could feel like he could be there for us in terms of explaining things and showing kids the right way.
anybody change expect happy leave saw worry worst
You want me to leave him under the bus? Yeah, I saw the play and I saw it on the film. I'm not happy about it. It's not what you . . . you can't expect anybody to do that. But that's over. The worst thing I can do is worry about what happened. We've got to think about what we can do to change and get better.
best group guys jump none walk
You walk into this place, and none of these guys will jump out at you. But they are a hard-working group ? probably the best group I've ever coached.
coach count group knew places situation supposed
You're not supposed to have to coach effort. I've never been in a situation where that's ever been an issue. I've always been in places where I knew you could count on the effort. But again, this is as young a group as I've had in a long time.
blessed truly
You're not always blessed with a roster that's what you truly wanted,
coaching contender franchise garden people played
You're coaching a storied franchise, ... I want to see this franchise respected, being a contender every year, having people come to the Garden and saying, 'Man, they played the right way.'
five guys
You never get five guys doing (the right thing) every time, and that's the only way you can be successful.
develop work
You're a new coach, you come in and you try to develop a culture. But also you work on things as a group, and we've never had that.
defended guess win
They executed great, they defended great. They did everything tonight. I guess that allows them to win 32 games.
hard shots time
They executed great, made shots and we had a hard time guarding them all night.