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
goes overboard trying
He sometimes goes overboard trying to do what I want him to do.
camp terrible training
He's in terrible shape, but that's to be expected. This is like training camp for him.
improved player
He's improved more than any player I've ever coached.
coach run
I can't coach anymore. I want to run a team.
buy determines guy practice
I don't need a guy who doesn't want to buy in. How you play, how you practice and how you act determines how much you play.
behind change dirty foul guys hard issue trying
I don't look at it that way. I don't think any of them are guys trying to make a hard foul or a dirty foul. They're trying to set a screen. The issue is, when a guy comes up behind you, you can't see, so you can't change direction, and you're going to probably take a blow.
care holes taking worry
I don't look at it like that, ... I've been in holes before. My whole thing is to see if we can get better. That's the key. I don't worry about the record. I worry about us getting better. And if we get better, things usually have a way of taking care of themselves.
coach taught teach trying wrong
I don't look at it like I'm on them, I'm trying to teach them, ... When they do something right I try to tell them they do something right. When they do something wrong you try to coach them. This is the way I was taught and the way we've always done it.
floor game major
I don't look at him as a sub. ... I want him to get major minutes. He's on the floor at the end of games. I always say that it's most important who's on the floor at the end of the game - that's when it counts.
anybody bad felt happened locker mean
I don't mean this in a bad way. I never felt comfortable.... it's only happened to me once before where anybody had to come in the locker room.
happy played pleased stretch win
I'm not pleased with the way we played at all. But a win down the stretch is a win. And I'm just happy to be playing.
evaluate guys time
I'm going to play guys and see what we have. What better time to evaluate your guys?
francis glad scoring smart system understand won
I'm glad he won the slam-dunk contest, but I don't think they have a scoring system like that when you play a game. And I think he's smart enough to understand that when you have Marbury and Francis and Jamal, you can't play everybody.
figure gonna playing rest
I'm gonna keep playing the kids, ... and then figure out the rest of it from there.