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
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I think we didn't have much defensive intensity at all in the third quarter. The third quarter was not what we expected, so I wanted to put the young kids in and they brought us back into the game. I didn't think it would be fair if I took them out.
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The thing that is difficult is that a lot of things that we have been working on, you don't see it getting better on the court: transition defense, defensive rebounding, dribble penetration,
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That's not fair. I don't know how to explain it. I don't know how to explain the turnovers, the defensive breakdowns, how we don't make the extra pass. But you can't look back. You have to look ahead and try to correct it.
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I thought he did a lot better. He rebounded much better the other night; last night he got his first defensive rebound with a minute to go. But I thought he fought them both on the post.
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If you don't really play hard, you have no chance. Can we be the kind of defensive team San Antonio or Detroit are? No. I don't think we have the personnel. Can we be a good defensive team? Yes. I really believe we've lacked the commitment in terms of effort and the toughness in terms of having a mind-set and a trust.
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I thought the first half we really struggled offensively and turned the ball over a lot, but we just managed to hang in defensively and that was critical.
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I thought they were a little tired, ... and then I thought down the stretch, I don't want to put the rookies in a tough situation like that.
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I think we just sometimes don't understand how we get leads, and time and score. We're just young and this is the process you've got to live with.
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I think what you've got to do is keep simplifying it and demanding it,
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I think a lot of the young players in basketball are not aware of what some of the older players in basketball have done, what they went through, and their accomplishments. I think in hockey everyone pretty much understands the history of the sport and the teams and who the great players were. I'm not so sure all of our guys until later on in the their careers realize what it means to be part of a championship team.
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I think that's where people really started to take notice. To beat those caliber of teams, you can't ignore that.
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I think the three-pointer has merit, but I'm a little confused about the distance. I don't want it to be such an easy shot that it really becomes more important than anything, because I don't think that's the purpose.
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It is better than in the past, ... We all struggled sometimes, wondering what five games you're going to have a player miss. It could hurt you in some situations. I like the fact that you can keep 15 guys, because that creates more jobs and opportunities for young kids to get better.
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I remember when I was at Kansas, we lost five straight games. I told the team, 'We're playing great,' and we won the national championship a month later.