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
locker needed
With this win, in that locker room, they needed something positive.
coached
They said I was OK. I went to practice. I coached the game. I'm fine. It's a non-issue.
aware coach nobody train
Nobody can train you or make you aware what it's going to be like to coach in New York.
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.
coach run
I can't coach anymore. I want to run a team.
coach taught teach trying wrong
I don't look at it like I'm on them, I'm trying to teach them, ... When they do something right I try to tell them they do something right. When they do something wrong you try to coach them. This is the way I was taught and the way we've always done it.
blessed coach coaches good happens happier people players privilege taught time
I've been blessed with the players I've had the privilege to coach as well as with coaches that have taught me. I know every time something good happens to me, those people are happier than I am.
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.
beat coaches college game special wonderful
He beat me in my first college game and made me feel good. He was a pretty special man. He was always wonderful to me. He's what all coaches should be about.
coach gone people proud sorry
I was sorry that the crowd, some of the people booed him, that's never what any coach would like to see happen. I want to coach him and I want to make him better and I don't want him to have to go through what he's gone through. I really was proud of the way he acted.
coaching happens hope improves
If something happens and it improves our team, it happens. If something doesn't happen you've got to keep coaching and hope you coach them better.
blessed coach great list top
He's exceptional. I've been blessed to coach a lot of great kids, but he's at the top of the list for me.
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.
coach enjoy game guys happy help home needed team ways
I'm happy for the team that they can go home and enjoy this game and be energized. For me, I'm going to try to find ways to coach better and help these guys. I can feel better because these guys needed something positive.