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
second
When it happens, it happens. It's the second day, so I don't think it's critical.
build comment further great happy hard hopefully practice worked
Nah, that had nothing to do with it. I'm not going to comment any further on it. I'm just happy he worked hard and, you know, he had a great practice today. Hopefully we'll build on that.
ask bring man night played
My whole thing I ask him to do every night is to bring energy. His man played with unbelievable energy. I want him to play like Sammy.
buy coach everybody move responsibility
My responsibility is to try to coach everybody and try to make everybody better. And when you find out that there's some that don't want to buy in, then you've really got to move on.
coaching guy left shape team worse
Look, I've been coaching how many years? A long time. I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once. Think about that. Think about me and think about the guy who's talking.
makeup matter spoke team today
Matter of fact, I spoke to him today and he wanted me to write down what kind of makeup of the team we would like - what kind of guards, forwards and centers.
huge reasons win
That was a huge win for us, because there haven't been a lot of reasons to smile.
guard watching
Marbury was great. I was watching the film - you can't guard better than he guarded.
earned figure help rookies trying
I won't play the rookies all the time, but they earned it. It's going to take some time. We're trying to figure out who can play and who can help us.
defended hard kids played plays reward together
I was thrilled. The young kids have been working hard and it shows. They played together well and they defended well, made some big plays and that's a reward in itself.
feels good team tries
It feels good. I always feel good after a team tries hard,
affect worked
I still have some of the same things, but I'm OK. It doesn't affect me coaching. I feel great, and we'll see if some things can be worked out.
cares deeply everybody team
I think everybody on this team cares deeply about him. We've got to just be supportive.
afraid continue everybody kids seems struggle
I think once we struggle it seems that it just snowballs, ... Our young kids continue to play hard; they're kind of fearless. I think everybody else seems like they're just afraid to make a mistake.