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
easy good guys help job knows players style team understand
You don't have players on the team that can't play a style that's comfortable for the coach. Isiah and I understand that. He knows the guys I like in the league. It's not easy to make trades. My job is to find out what these guys can do and if they can do the things we think will help us be a good team for the long run.
blessed coach coaches happens happier help people players position privilege taught
You don't get to the position I've been able to get to without a lot of help from other people. I've been blessed with the players I've had the privilege to coach and the coaches who taught me, I know when something happens for me those people are happier than me.
gave guard highlight plays seven six
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.
happy
There never was an opportunity, ... I'm happy where I am.
guys heard knew situation walked
This is the not the same situation I walked into in Detroit, ... Those guys all knew how to play. There weren't a lot of things I told them that they haven't heard or done before.
cares coach everybody good help knows players respect supportive wants
They respect Mr. Dolan and know he cares and wants to do everything he can to help us win. But it's up to us to coach better and the players to play better. Everybody knows how supportive he is, and I think that's a good thing.
anybody change expect happy leave saw worry worst
You want me to leave him under the bus? Yeah, I saw the play and I saw it on the film. I'm not happy about it. It's not what you . . . you can't expect anybody to do that. But that's over. The worst thing I can do is worry about what happened. We've got to think about what we can do to change and get better.
best group guys jump none walk
You walk into this place, and none of these guys will jump out at you. But they are a hard-working group ? probably the best group I've ever coached.
coach count group knew places situation supposed
You're not supposed to have to coach effort. I've never been in a situation where that's ever been an issue. I've always been in places where I knew you could count on the effort. But again, this is as young a group as I've had in a long time.
blessed truly
You're not always blessed with a roster that's what you truly wanted,
coaching contender franchise garden people played
You're coaching a storied franchise, ... I want to see this franchise respected, being a contender every year, having people come to the Garden and saying, 'Man, they played the right way.'
five guys
You never get five guys doing (the right thing) every time, and that's the only way you can be successful.
develop work
You're a new coach, you come in and you try to develop a culture. But also you work on things as a group, and we've never had that.
francis impact practice steve
This is a process. We didn't have Steve Francis with us in practice and that's going to impact us.