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
associated everybody liked
Everybody I know that's been associated with him liked him as a kid. We all make mistakes.
counts dressing everybody healthy impacts room
Everybody counts how many lineups we've had, but every day when I go into the dressing room I don't know who's going to be healthy and that impacts the lineup.
game losses trying wins
Every game matters. At the end of the year, this is what they do: They put the wins and losses up. Obviously, we're not going to make the playoffs, but I think the important thing is you get better. Hopefully, that's what we're trying to do.
ball came point time
Every day, I put him more and more on the ball and try to get him more and more involved. I was teasing him yesterday, saying, 'When you came with me the first time (in Indiana), you wanted to be a point guard. Well, you're probably going to have your wish.
beginning five four front good indicator nobody plays
At the beginning of the game, the first four or five plays they just got to the front of the rim with nobody helping. That was a pretty good indicator of how it went.
changes coached detroit inherited positive progress until winning work
Until I coached Detroit I never inherited a winning team, ... This is a work in progress but I do think some of the changes that have been made are really positive ones.
against bothered defense hard stopping three time zone
We had a hard time stopping them. Their zone bothered us. We had to come down against a set defense for most of the first three quarters.
ball gave moved open road shots tempo
We moved the ball great, got a lot of open shots because we gave the ball up. Controlling the tempo on the road is the way we've got to play.
blocking good hard loose running seems setting watch
We watch every film and it seems like the same things are prevalent every night. Blocking out, getting loose balls, making hard cuts, setting good screens, running back.
careless game selection shot sucked
We had some slippage. We were careless with the ball, our shot selection wasn't as great, but when the game was on the line, we got back and sucked it up.
great high level limited nights players
Two great players had spectacular nights and we competed at a high level with a limited group.
gets realize
When Marbury gets 15 assists and one turnover without Jamal in the game, you realize why we won. He was phenomenal.
finding people
Finding people who have the right mindset. They've just got too much on their minds.
advantages against athletic caught playing score team tried
We tried to score too fast. Against an athletic team like them, that's tough. I thought we had advantages if we could go inside, but we just got caught up playing their tempo.