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
anybody blame blames concerned man
That is a man concerned about his family...I don't blame him and I don't think anybody blames him.
great
It's a great feeling. When you look at this league, to be in it this long, you feel lucky.
feeling great guys jobs knew lose mom thousand
It's a great feeling (that) my mom knew where I was one thousand nights. When you look at this league, at how many guys get jobs and lose jobs, you feel pretty lucky.
coach meant move people rest sorry teammates
I told him I wanted him to listen. I told him I appreciated the way he cheered for his teammates at the end of (Wednesday's) game. It meant a lot. I was sorry that the crowd, some of the people booed him. And I told him I just wanted him to let us coach him the rest of the year. He's not going anywhere, and let's move on.
anywhere coach deal move present rest year
I told him I just wanted him to let us coach him the rest of the year and he's not going anywhere and let's move on. Let's deal in the present and not in the past.
open passing selfish shot taking
I told (Nate) it's just as selfish not taking an open shot as it is not passing the ball.
ball everybody gave great moved nicest open people playing quality road shots tempo together trying win
It's a quality win for us on the road. We moved the ball great and got a lot of open shots because we gave the ball up. Controlling the tempo on the road is the way we've got to play ... You look at the stat sheet, and the nicest thing for me is I feel like a lot of people are playing together and trying to make everybody better.
mind talking trade tried
I tried to get his mind off this. We were talking about our team, the Minnesota-Boston trade and just what's going on in the league.
suit tried
I tried to get him to suit up.
gives hopefully killer lose opportunity people player quality
It's a killer when you lose a quality player like him, especially when you're struggling. It's tough. The way things are going, it gives some other people an opportunity to play and hopefully they get better because of the experience.
coach game key treat
It's all about making shots. The key to a Game 7 for a coach is to treat it like any other game.
city fight proves
It proves you can occasionally fight City Hall.
bowl seven won
I told them we're bowl eligible. We won seven games.
shut
It's not something where we'll have to shut him down.