Larry Brown Quotes (320 Quotes)

I don't look at it like that, ... I've been in holes before. My whole thing is to see if we can get better. That's the key. I don't worry about the record. I worry about us getting better. And if we get better, things usually have a way of taking care of themselves.

As I told the team, maybe we'll walk the ball up the rest of the year and call a play every time, so the other team can't score 120 points and shoot 57.

We're what, about 1.6, 1.7 million now I think we need to be around 2 million. Maybe in three or five years we'll be ready.

The bottom line is we don't have a rotation, we don't know who can play. So it's going to take time. Eventually we're going to have an eight- or nine-man rotation and we'll probably have nine happy guys and five that are unhappy.

They scored 30 points every quarter. They executed great. They made shots and we had a hard time guarding them all night. They played great, Calderon was great, he got everyone involved. We were stuck behind all night.

I die every game that any of our fans has to watch or (Dolan) has to watch. Hey, everywhere I've been, every place I've ever coached, I always felt we were getting better. I've never been in a situation where I didn't know in my heart we weren't getting better. And I'm not giving up here.

I love what he's done. Sunday he got a little bit carried away, but he's getting better every day. He's gotten better every day in practice. And it shows when he plays. He's more under control, he understands more. It's been terrific to watch him progress like that.

We can talk all we want, but if the team is shooting 65 and we're turning the ball over and we get in early foul trouble you can't make it a high-possession game. The second half, we didn't make it a high-possession game. We don't have the interior defense right now if we do get beat. We can't play like them.

I think if you look at the M. O. of this team all year, we have had trouble making stops. We have turned the ball over, we lead the league in turnovers, points of turnovers, and assist-to-turnovers. I keep telling them if you want to play playoff basketball, you've got to take care of the ball and execute. We don't get it and we have to keep working on it.

I'm mad, ... But that's my responsibility. I've got to get guys to play the right way. But I see a two-on-one break, and we don't make a pass. Defensively, a guy beats us and there's nobody there to help out.

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.

Health-wise, I'm better off than I was when I took the job, I wasn't in control of that. I want to retire here. I want to fulfill my contract, and I'd like to stay involved as long as they'll have me.

The biggest thing in my mind is you go to training camp to earn the right to play.

I think he just didn't want to shoot the ball. I thought he'd have 15, 20 assists. It was just one of those nights where maybe he didn't feel like he was on.

We can't guard anybody. We don't do a good job of getting back. We have trouble keeping people in front and it's almost like people script plays against us.

You don't have players on the team that can't play a style that's comfortable for the coach. Isiah and I understand that. He knows the guys I like in the league. It's not easy to make trades. My job is to find out what these guys can do and if they can do the things we think will help us be a good team for the long run.

I think that's where people really started to take notice. To beat those caliber of teams, you can't ignore that.

Jamal played great, even without the (go-ahead) shot. He played hurt, he had no business being out there. He was great.

We've had so many people hurt at different times we've never been able to establish any normal rotations.

I think it'll make both better.

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.

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.

He has a hard time looking at me sometimes because of how he might be perceived by certain people, but he listens to everything I say.

We tried to score too fast. Against an athletic team like them, that's tough. I thought we had advantages if we could go inside, but we just got caught up playing their tempo.

He's a good basketball player. He's going to help our young guys just with his presence.

When you don't have practice time and you get away with winning some games, you get a false sense of who you are.

We really have too many young guys right now. You look at Riley's team, he didn't have to worry about the ninth, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th guy worrying about playing. He had eight guys that he played. I don't even think he looked at the other seven. If we're going to be good, you've got to get down to a rotation similar to that and develop your young kids the right way.

When you open the door, you expect to see a bunch of trailers sitting there. We opened the door, and there wasn't anything sitting there.

We watch every film and it seems like the same things are prevalent every night. Blocking out, getting loose balls, making hard cuts, setting good screens, running back.

I haven't had this opportunity in a long time. I've learned a lot from this season, and hopefully I'll be better for it.

We tried but we just we have some deficiencies that hopefully Jalen will help alleviate. I think he'll take a lot of pressure off the perimeter people and make the big guys bigger.

We had a hard time stopping them. Their zone bothered us. We had to come down against a set defense for most of the first three quarters.

I don't look at him as a sub. ... I want him to get major minutes. He's on the floor at the end of games. I always say that it's most important who's on the floor at the end of the game - that's when it counts.

When I was a college coach, my dream was to play against Coach Smith in the finals of the NCAA. I always felt it would be a win-win, and I could probably say the same thing for (playing against) Pop.

If Boston keeps playing the way theyre playing, were going to have to play our best to beat them,

Come on, that's his wife.

Antonio would be in a lot more trouble if he went home and hadn't done anything.

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.

He's rebounding at a higher pace than he ever has before. As he gets in better shape and he gets healthy, those numbers will only improve. For him with eight seconds left, to go and hit those free throws, well, that's something we haven't done before under pressure.

I can understand the league's point of view, but I'd like to put Stu Jackson and commissioner David Stern in the same situation and see how they would react. I think he looked up and saw his wife struggling and thought it was the right thing to do.

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.

I put the wrong people in a position to fail. That's the bottom line.

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.

A lot of what you just said is going to determine who's going to play. The guys that are committed to hustle back, make the extra pass, take the good shot, are probably the ones who are going to be out there in the guts of the game, or maybe at the beginning of the game.

I have chest pains after every bad game. Nothing has changed. I feel bad when we lose and this has been a year when we've lost a lot so it's not something that's fun. But Lisa just thought I need to get checked before I got on the plane (Wednesday night).

I listen to some of the comments on WIP - they're playing parts of the press conference - and I can see where people would read into things. But if anyone was at the press conference, I think would sense how much I enjoyed Philly and how I loved working for those people.

This wasn't (Auburn Hills). What happened that night started because of a fight on the court. This was nothing like that. Once (Davis) got up there, he didn't do anything.

I have a new appreciation because I'm with him longer now, and I watch him play and grow so that makes me feel good. I can see his game, from my perspective getting better. My friends that call me that watch him play say how much they think he's improved, and he's trying to do what we want. But I think as a team, when he went down in the Minnesota game we didn't play as well as we have been.

I'm happy to hear he's not really hurt as badly as he could have been. I spoke to him today. This would have been a good time for him, the last 16 games. It's not something that serious and hopefully he'll be ready for the summer.

I just think our big guys, in particular Eddy and Jerome, are not in the kind of shape they need to be in to play in the N.B.A. right now, ... But we still have time. And they will get in shape, and they will help us.