619 Quotes by Larry Brown

We got to be ready to play our first game, ... We've lost three times. Again, I'm trying to tell them we had chances to win all three. So don't feel like you're not capable of winning games. And try to understand what we need to do better.

He is one of the few people that I don't have to worry about his workmanship. If everybody did the quality of work that Earl did, we would have a different society than we have. And he's not going to retire before he does my screen closure.

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.

We gave up 35 points on turnovers and I don't think we got near a loose ball. I think most of that was effort. We can point to a lot of people in terms of lack of effort.

The only thing I want is guys who play hard, play unselfishly, try to defend, try to rebound and play with some kind of intelligence. I think that's been an issue forever.

Those are three areas we were talking about. We needed to do a good job, especially on the road. So that's disappointing.

Jamal, to me, is becoming our best perimeter defender. When did we think that would happen?

We'll have a very thorough, open search that's nationwide,

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