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
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We just want ballplayers. I don't get caught up in positions. I think Steve is strong enough to guard twos and quick enough to guard ones.
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We just want ball players. I don't get caught up in positions. I think Steve is strong enough to guard 2s and quick enough to guard 1s.
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I think we have to figure out ways to stop people first. I always figure if you can guard people you don't have to score as much. I was hopeful we would value the ball a little better. My thing is, who is going to grind it out, defend and have a chance to guard people, and then we'll move on.
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Marbury was great. I was watching the film - you can't guard better than he guarded.
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Our perimeter defense isn't any worse than our interior defense. We want all of them to learn how to guard and have that as a priority.
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We can't guard anybody. We don't do a good job of getting back. We have trouble keeping people in front and it's almost like people script plays against us.
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We needed him to guard and he went back in and guarded. Like I said, when he puts his mind to it, he's an exceptional defender.
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I don't react to what he says. I've said the same message for 30-something years. You share the ball, you play hard and you try to guard and you have a chance to be successful.
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The last few games you see how many assists we've had, it's been a lot better. If we share the ball, try to guard and try to play hard, you'll generally get something accomplished. I've been preaching that forever. If you want to listen and learn you'll get it. If you don't, chances are you won't figure it out.
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If you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the outcome of a game. And I've said this from Day 1: I've never given anybody in my career more free rein in my career. And I went to the conference finals (in Indiana) with Haywood Workman as a point guard. With Eric Snow, who was the fourth-string point guard in Seattle. He went to the NBA Finals (with Philadelphia).
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If you want to run, if your guards can rebound the ball that's one less pass you have to make on the break.
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It's the same old same old. We can't guard anyone. They got 33 points on the break. It looked like that could have had 100.
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There is no way you can guard if you don't compete. We gave up about six or seven plays that will be on highlight film.
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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.