PISTONS LONG WAIT: DOING IT RIGHT BROWN GETS FIRST TITLE AND GETS IT HIS WAY.Byline: Michael A. Anastasi Staff Writer AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Larry Brown Larry Brown may refer to:
UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX more than 20 years ago. The truth is, though, that Brown's happiest days come when the challenge he faces is fresh and difficult, and the team he's coaching is willing to learn and willing to play hard. And so today is a happy day. On Tuesday, Brown became the second coach to win an NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= championship in his first season with a team in the past 20 years - with the one notable exception being a man named Phil Jackson
Philip Douglas "Phil" Jackson (born September 17, 1945 in Deer Lodge, Montana) is the current coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, an American professional basketball team. . The difference: Jackson has nine championship rings; Brown, 62, finally has one. ``Everyone wants to win a title,'' said Brown's brother, Herb, frequently an assistant for his younger brother Wiki is aware of the following uses of "'Younger Brother":
It isn't that Brown wanted a championship to validate himself. He wanted it to validate a system that began back with his first coaching job in 1972 and continued to evolve as he hopped from team to team, league to league, pros to college to pros, 10 different cities in all. ``It's not really about me. It's about these players,'' Brown said. ``When you're in it for this long, you're constantly reminded that you've never been a part of it; obviously people who care about you mention it more than I do. ``People used to tell me how hard our team played and how much they respected their effort in trying to do it the right way. I sense this team and what they bring would be a testimony of how special our league is, because I think this team tries to play the right way and respects the game and respects one another. ... (It shows) when you do things the right way, these are the things you can accomplish.'' Most recently, Brown, who will coach the U.S. Olympic team in Athens, Greece, this summer, spent six seasons in Philadelphia - where he brought the 76ers to the Finals three years ago and stunningly defeated the Lakers See Lake poets in the series opener at Staples Center This article has multiple issues: * Its neutrality is disputed. * It may contain original research or unverifiable claims. * It does not cite any references or sources. . His 76ers then lost the next four games. Eventually losing interest in the antics surrounding Allen Iverson <noinclude></noinclude> Allen Ezail Iverson (born June 7, 1975, in Hampton, Virginia[1]), nicknamed A.I. and The Answer, is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association. , Brown found here in Michigan a new group of athletes to challenge, athletes who were ready to listen. ``Coach Brown won't let up,'' said Detroit's Lindsey Hunter Lindsey Benson Hunter, Jr. (born December 3 1970, in Utica, Mississippi) is an American professional basketball player in the NBA. He is a guard for the Detroit Pistons in active rotation off the bench. , who played for the Lakers and Phil Jackson himself and is as fair a judge on the difference between the two as anyone. ``Coach Brown won't let you stop learning, stop pushing, stop striving to get it right,'' Hunter said. ``He's in your face: I'm not going to let you stop. You can get mad at me, you can say what you want about me. We can have a confrontation. But I'm not going to let you stop.'' And that is the story of this series. Detroit never did stop. ``The only validation I want,'' Brown said Tuesday, ``is that my players think that I've been fair and honest and try to make them better.'' Michael A. Anastasi, (818) 713-3627 michael.anastasi(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Larry Brown, second from left, on Tuesday became the first coach in the past 25 years other than Phil Jackson to win an NBA title in his first season with a team. Michael Conroy/Associated Press |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion