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
almost care impossible success
We can't give up. If you don't take care of the basketball, it's going to be almost impossible to have any success at all.
character culture darn early good guys knowing needed played priorities problems similar style tough
We played pretty darn good after All-Star break. We were about .500 and we set up a culture that enabled us to be pretty good from then on. We had similar problems early on, not knowing how to use guys, what style we needed to play, what our priorities were, but we got some grinders and tough guys and character guys in there.
open search
We'll have a very thorough, open search that's nationwide,
coach head jersey lasted terrible
Well, obviously, I was dumb, ... But, you know, I only lasted two years there. He probably would have been the head coach of New Jersey and had a terrible career.
judge people
Unfortunately, sometimes how you look is how people judge you.
care country importance starting understand
We don't have them all, but they're starting to care about each other and understand the importance of representing our country the right way,
acting looked
We were acting like we just wanted to get home, It looked that way, didn't it? Didn't it look that way to you. It looked that way to me.
four hard paid testing worked
We worked hard over four years to demonstrate the fruitlessness of testing and now that work has paid off,
beginning bit hopefully next ready shut week worry
We're going to shut him down a little bit. Hopefully, he'll be back at the beginning of next week and we'll know a little bit more. Hopefully he'll be ready to play. If not we'll worry about that then.
grew proud
We grew up a lot. I'm proud of the way they played.
guess process
We're just young. And I guess this is the process you have to live with.
ball energy execute matching simple turn
We're just not doing it. We're not matching the energy of our opponent. We're doing the same things we've done all year. We turn the ball over too much, don't make simple plays, and don't execute very well.
forgot good missed playing shots time
We started playing a little fast. We missed a lot of really good shots and I thought we got a little tight. We forgot time and score.
allen bring brought guys lead people respecting talked tonight
We started out good. We all talked about respecting them with Allen out. We had a seven-point lead and then we just completely wilted. We had a lot of guys that didn't bring it to tonight and they had a lot of people that brought it.