Larry Brown Quotes (320 Quotes)

It is obvious they dominated both games in just about every area. But we are coming home and we all know it is not going to be easy but we just have to take it one game at a time.

That's his wife up there. We were worried about Kendra. He saw her fall back and someone flailing.

You hope by watching it that they'll do something about it. It's kind of befuddling right now because we talk about the same things over and over again.

We get beat on turnovers every night. We can't get to the free throw line as much as our opponent, we don't create turnovers or block shots (or) get loose balls. So that's the end result, we give up a lot of points, a high field goal percentage.

Never asked anything of my players any different than I'm doing right now. Think about that. So the bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. If you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me. You owe it to your teammates to do that every single night if you care about the right things.

After last night, ... I'd be looking forward to coach any game. We gave away a real opportunity to win a game, and so the sooner we play, the better I feel.

We missed some free throws that gave them a little life. We started turning the ball over. They (Indiana) got hot and we didn't have an answer.

Story of our season. When teams make a run at us, it's very hard to find the competitive spirit you need to get back in games.

I think once we struggle it seems that it just snowballs, ... Our young kids continue to play hard they're kind of fearless. I think everybody else seems like they're just afraid to make a mistake.

Everybody I know that's been associated with him liked him as a kid. We all make mistakes.

The first four items, Brown said, came from Dean Smith, the legendary North Carolina coach for whom Brown played in the early 60's. (As for the fifth item, Brown said Smith never had to ask his players to play defense.) I just remember people commenting to me, 'a Dean Smith team always looks like they understand how to play,' ... And I always said, 'Well, they play the right way.'

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.

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.

Brown would feel better, but he acknowledged last week that he is still carrying baggage from Detroit. I don't know if I've recovered from what happened this summer yet, ... I'm trying to move on. I'm trying to realize the two years I had, the last two years were such a blessing that if I didn't do anything again I would've been fulfilled, just to know I had the opportunity to coach that Detroit team.

Maybe when you play Miami, you need 36 fouls in the middle I don't know,

I know what we have. You guys know what we have. There's no audition. That audition stuff has been over a long time.

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,

It was great watching the kids come back. We had a chance to send it into overtime. Diop made a great play. I was thrilled with the way they competed. They got valuable experience in a close game.

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.

I thought Nate played fine. But I never saw Allen once pump his chest or do anything but go down the other end after he scored. I told Nate Iverson has almost 30,000 points. So I want Robinson to act like he's done it before.