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I don't know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That's the only thing that really matters, and if you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the game's outcome.

~Larry Brown

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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.

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College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.

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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

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I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.

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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.

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My whole thing is being a coach, a GM, and a president: you all got to be attached at the hip. There's got to be no separation between you. The players got to know it's one voice: we're all in this together; we're going to do this right.

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I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.

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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.

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If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Coach

Born: Unknown

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