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
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.
direction moving people positive
We don't see it as a crisis, we see it as really moving in a positive direction for the people we serve.
compete fun watching younger
We got close, but did not get it done. But it was fun watching them compete and watching the younger guys.
beat becomes bunch dribble guys jason pass shoot
We got beat on dribble penetration and that was huge. They have a bunch of guys that can shoot and pass the ball. When you have Jason (Kidd), it becomes contagious.
coaching game guys hard hope losing positive stop talk tough trying
When you're losing game after game after game it's tough. It's hard to keep them up. It's hard to get guys to keep competing. It's really tough on the young kids. But you can't stop coaching and trying to get better. You hope you have something positive to talk about.
bring brought guys key people
We had a lot of guys that didn't bring it tonight. And they had a lot of people that brought it. We had a lot of key guys that were just out there.
against building feels good guys people road team win
We had a lot of guys contribute. To win one on the road against a pretty good team is a good feeling. ... People don't win in this building much, so it feels good.
bit clock good overall stuff
We had a little more poise. We used the clock a little bit better. I think we got into our stuff a little bit better. I think overall we did a lot of good things.
ball crucial four free gave missed plays shot six straight three throws turned
We had four straight possessions. We called something and never got into any of them. Never got into any of the plays we were calling. We had crucial turnovers. We had a three-second , a missed dunk, turned the ball over, a charge. We gave them six straight free throws and had three possessions where we didn't get a shot up.
five maybe million three
We're what, about 1.6, 1.7 million now? I think we need to be around 2 million. Maybe in three or five years we'll be ready.
huge reasons win
That was a huge win for us, because there haven't been a lot of reasons to smile.
camp develop hardly james normal rotation stock training
That's been said for 100 years, I don't ever put stock into it. I don't have a normal rotation right now. At training camp we never had Toni Davis, we didn't have Eddy Curry, we didn't have Richardson, we hardly had James at all. I don't know how you can really develop a rotation.
ball experience feed guy guys move open problem understand year
That's been a big problem all year - we haven't had facilitators, guys that move the ball. We need more guys with experience that understand when a guy is open and who can feed the ball to the post.
aware shoot
I wasn't aware how well he could shoot the ball, ... He can really shoot it.