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
guys hope pick reminding veteran
You hope that you have some veteran guys who will pick them up, and as a coach, I have to keep reminding them of that. But it's difficult.
chance guys talents
To have two guys back there, having those kind of talents is unique. And the little kid, he has a chance to be pretty special.
butler chance giving good guys hope jackie kid lose minutes particular playing somebody win
You guys want me to play the young guys and Jackie Butler has been pretty good. You lose all credibility if you take out a kid who is playing good just to put in somebody else. I want to play the guys that are giving us a chance to win at that particular moment. My hope is that Eddy Curry can play 40 minutes every game.
cutting forget guys nobody setting six worked
You guys forget everything we worked on for six days, ... Nobody is setting a screen, cutting and we end up with a (bad) shot.
cut extra fully guys importance lead maybe pass percent saw shot though three understand
Even though they shot over 60 percent in the first half, we still cut the lead to seven. But once we cut the lead to seven, it's like I never saw a pass after that. They always make the extra pass, sometimes two or three of them. We have a lot of young guys who maybe don't fully understand the importance of the little things.
break guys offensive run
Big guys can run on the break and get to the offensive board.
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.
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.
finding gotta guys hope looked people
I looked out there and it looked like a lot of guys just didn't care. That's tough, but you gotta keep finding the people that do (care) and hope you have enough of them.
guys running
I look out there and I see guys just running up and down the court.
air ball call guess guys invent jumping people rest running shooting walk year
I look out there and I just think we're running up and down the court. I see guys jumping up in the air and if they don't have something, they try to invent plays. I guess we probably have to walk the ball up the rest of the year and call a play, see if we can keep people from shooting 57% and getting 120 points.
badly coach excited felt fun game good guys trying
When you're a coach and you see guys trying and you don't get a win, you want badly for something good to happen, ... I sensed after the game they really felt good about it, they were excited about it. That was fun to see.