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
bad checked chest lose lost pains plane year
I have chest pains after every bad game. Nothing has changed. I feel bad when we lose and this has been a year when we've lost a lot so it's not something that's fun. But Lisa just thought I need to get checked before I got on the plane (Wednesday night).
bad envy game mind seconds
I didn't look at it as a bad thing. I put him back in the game (with 18 seconds left) to have him guard. I don't mind that; I envy that.
caught guys lose perspective playing respecting rewarded step trying wins
I don't get caught up with wins and losses. I get caught up with guys trying to do the right thing, respecting their teammates, and playing with effort. It's disappointing to lose and not be rewarded for that as a team. But from my perspective it's a big step forward.
dressing enjoy figure guys
I don't enjoy this feeling. I feel for those guys in the dressing room. We have to figure out a way to get one.
david guys helped jackson situation stern
I'd like to put Stu Jackson and David Stern and some of those guys in that same situation and see how they would have reacted. He helped get things under control.
curse game kicked line obviously talked
I didn't curse him. I hadn't talked to him the whole game. Obviously he thought I went over the line and that's his prerogative. Those things happen. It's the first game I got kicked out.
die everywhere fans felt game giving heart situation watch
I die every game that any of our fans has to watch or (Dolan) has to watch. Hey, everywhere I've been, every place I've ever coached, I always felt we were getting better. I've never been in a situation where I didn't know in my heart we weren't getting better. And I'm not giving up here.
fun
I don't know where I got the term, but I always tell the guys, we always write on the board, 'play hard, play together, play smart, have fun and try to guard,'
honestly hopefully sooner
I don't know when I will be back. Hopefully it'll be sooner than later, but I honestly don't know.
across everybody people trying value win
I don't know what people can do yet in a lot of cases. What I'm trying to get across to everybody is, this is what we value as a group, and this is how we can win games. We're trying to see who's on the same page.
maybe
Maybe when you play Miami, you need 36 fouls in the middle; I don't know,
giving good maybe
Maybe we are giving effort. Maybe we aren't good enough.
create double league nice open outside post presence teams trying
Obviously, without Eddy we don't have a post presence. We have to do it on the perimeter a bit. But you know we're trying to get to the rim . . . The whole thing in this league is that when you have a low-post presence, you can create double teams to open up outside shots. If you have a perimeter presence that can penetrate and kick, it's the same situation. It would be nice to have both.
almost couple four guys mad pop somebody stumble tripped
Pop told me he had about four guys almost tripped over cords. We had a couple of guys almost stumble off the platform, and somebody got mad at me because I was in the way of a cable.