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
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.
advantage far finding good great inside job open size tempo
(The Hornets) just did a great job of controlling the tempo and finding the open people. We had far too many turnovers and when we had an advantage with size inside we just didn't do a good job.
control guard nine quarter
You can't guard him. He's phenomenal. We had nine turnovers in the first quarter and you can't guard him in transition. I think once we got better control of the tempo, we did a better job.
fault fourth game great guts guys horrendous mistakes overcome quarter time trying win
You can't fault the effort. Guys are trying to win the game. But when you make mistakes during the guts of the game and you don't have time to overcome them, it magnifies the mistakes. We just had a horrendous fourth quarter and they had a great fourth quarter.
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.
age age-and-aging challenge enjoy rather
If I had my druthers, at my age I would rather be with a more established team. But this is fun. I enjoy coaching. It's probably a much different challenge than I've had recently, but that's OK.