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
happy
There never was an opportunity, ... I'm happy where I am.
francis impact practice steve
This is a process. We didn't have Steve Francis with us in practice and that's going to impact us.
ball guys share team teammates
This is a team game. I want guys who play hard, try to defend, share the ball and make their teammates better.
coaching everywhere individual people problem
This is not an individual sport. Everywhere I went it's about team. I've been coaching the same way my whole life. I never had a problem getting people to understand.
coach felt help mature team true vital
The way we want to coach and play . . . he exemplifies all of those things. I thought with this young team he was vital for us because he's the most mature and the most experienced and really a true professional. I felt it would really help the young guys.
coach felt help mature team true vital
The way we want to coach and play . . . he exemplifies all of those things, ... I thought with this young team he was vital for us because he's the most mature and the most experienced and really a true professional. I felt it would really help the young guys.
effort felt offence tried
Our effort was great. We tried to do things the right way. We were a little unorganized on offence but I kind of felt that would happen.
effort kids
Our effort was great, ... Our young kids were terrific.
food
There's no other food that can say that. But it's going to take a while.
energy guard matching
There's no way you can guard if you don't compete. I think they feel like they are competing, we have some who are, but collectively we are not matching the energy of those who we are playing.
asked happened leave talk
Isiah asked if he could talk to the team. We were about to leave and Mr. Dolan happened to come by and Isiah asked Mr. Dolan if he would say something to the team.
defensive difficult dribble transition
The thing that is difficult is that a lot of things that we have been working on, you don't see it getting better on the court: transition defense, defensive rebounding, dribble penetration,
eat everybody guys hockey partial room somebody special talk
The thing that always makes me partial to guys like him, all hockey players, is all they ever talk about is team. They room together. They eat together. And he's always been somebody everybody mentions as being such a special leader.
commitment committed guys sudden willing
The thing is they got guys that are willing to make a three-year commitment, which I think is tremendous. We had guys that committed and then all of a sudden 9/11 happened, and then there were injuries.