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.
help trying ways
He's just trying to find himself, ... We've got to find out ways to help him. I've got to do a better job.
enjoying guys happy help realize seen team trying
I hadn't had too many guys that didn't realize you're trying to help them and make them better. You want to be fair. I've never seen a happy team losing. If you're happy and enjoying it you should be doing something else.
fun loved played shared trying watch
I loved the effort. We shared the ball, and it was more fun to watch with them trying like they did. We played hard, and we played unselfishly. I thought we were ready.
acted chest ovation point points pump standing trying
I was just trying to point out to him, you get a standing ovation and pump your chest and Allen's got 25,000 points and he acted like (it was) no big deal.
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.
trying
I'm still trying to find out who can play.
create double league nice open outside post presence teams trying
Obviously, without Eddy we don't have a post presence. We have to do it on the perimeter a bit. But you know we're trying to get to the rim . . . The whole thing in this league is that when you have a low-post presence, you can create double teams to open up outside shots. If you have a perimeter presence that can penetrate and kick, it's the same situation. It would be nice to have both.
hard instead please trying
He's trying so hard to please me, instead of just playing,
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.
goes overboard trying
He sometimes goes overboard trying to do what I want him to do.
figure help infectious trying
I'm trying to figure out who can play and who can help us, ... We've all got to do that. It's got to be infectious for everybody.
maybe trying
The way I look at it, maybe some of them can't do what I ask. I don't want to look at them and say they're not trying. Maybe they just can't and that's what we're trying to find out.
decisions game maybe ok trying win
Maybe some of Jamal's decisions were a little misguided, but I know he's trying to win the game so I'm OK with that.