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
court gets great guys looks nba needs
He's a great official. It's great for the game. He still looks young and he gets up and down the court as well as anybody. The NBA needs guys like him.
archery black bring decided high hispanic numbers saw throughout traveled
Over the years, as I traveled throughout the archery circuit, I saw there weren't high numbers of black or Hispanic participants. I decided to make a difference, to bring this sport to our neighborhoods.
defense guard interior learn worse
Our perimeter defense isn't any worse than our interior defense. We want all of them to learn how to guard and have that as a priority.
aggressive magic shoot steals team
Our first team didn't shoot all that well. The Magic had 14 steals to our zero. To me, by accident, you can get a steal. That makes me think we weren't aggressive defensively.
feels kids
Our young kids want to be part of this. I think Isiah feels the same way.
best center far jackie
Our best center by far is Jackie Butler.
eight hustle matched seven
Other than the first seven or eight minutes, I didn't think we matched their energy. After that, they just made hustle play after hustle play.
eight match minutes
Other than the first seven, eight minutes we didn't match their energy.
early felt game
(Rivers) told me he felt early in the game it was over.
cares difficult guys looking season situations team
Right now, you're looking for guys that you want to keep. Because this is the most difficult part of a season for a team that is not going anywhere, and you can really tell who cares in situations like this.
glad physically seems totally
Physically he got tired. He tried. He seems rusty, but that wasn't totally unexpected. I'm glad he got to play.
good missed
I thought we missed a lot of good shots.
ball half hang struggled turned
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.
rookies situation tough
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.