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
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.
bring guys imperative key league players successful veteran
It's imperative that your better players bring it every night. I don't think there's any way to be successful in this league with just young kids. You need veteran leadership. Sometimes it comes from guys who don't play, but for the most part it has to come from the guys that are the key players.
people understand
It's important to me that you give something back to our sport, ... and people here understand the right way to play.
assess break chance direction good pieces time until
The direction is not going the way we would all like and we've got to do something about that. This is a pretty good time from now until All-Star break to kind of assess where we're going, but I do really feel good about a lot of the pieces here and I think a lot of them have a chance to get a lot better.
great happy home locker needed positive relax team
If I thought we were disorganized, I would have called time. Jamal just made a great play ... I'm happy for the team they can go home and relax and be energized. In that locker room, they needed something positive to happen.
great
If I thought we were disorganized I would have called a timeout. He just made a great play.
gets painful
If he gets hurt, it's going to be painful for a while.
beaten shared
It was like the JV and the varsity. I think they could've beaten us by 50 the way they executed and shared the ball.
against beaten
It was like the JV against the varsity. I think they could've beaten us by 50.