In 2021, Larry Brown received the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award. It's an affirmation of coach Larry Brown's 32-year coaching career. When it comes to defensive gurus among NBA coaches, we think of Cardinal Auerbach, Bad Boy Scouts navigator Chuck Daley, Larry Brown, Popovich, Mike Brown, Jeff Van Gundy. As the head coach of the NBA, Larry Brown is a real temple figure, and his defensive system is a valuable asset left to the basketball world.
Coach Larry Brown has always been committed to the idea of playing the right way. Larry Brown is a standard academic coach, the coaching style is very rigorous, the team discipline is strict, the tactics are meticulous, and the team's big cards cannot be late and absent from training, otherwise they will be punished. Arguably Larry Brown is a very principled coach!
Born on September 14, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, Larry Brown has been in charge of the NBA for 27 years, with a career record of 1239 wins and 907 losses, and a playoff coaching record: 120 wins and 111 losses, ranking seventh among all NBA coaches in history. Larry Brown, who had just entered the coaching industry in early 1973, 75 and early '76, was named ABA Coach of the Year three times; led the college team to the NCAA championship twice in 1980 and 1988; became the coach of the Eastern Conference All-Star team in 2000; was elected the best coach of the NBA in 2001; he ranked seventh in NBA history with a record of 933 wins in the regular season; and participated in the Olympic Games as an assistant coach of the U.S. men's basketball team in 2000 and won a gold medal. He is the only man to represent the United States in Olympic basketball as a player and coach, respectively; since November 2003, he has been the head coach of the U.S. men's basketball team.
With so many honors that Brown has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame of the NBA, ABA and university before he has won the championship ring, even Phil Jackson has praised: "Not many coaches can enter the Hall of Fame without winning a championship, Brown deserves these honors, and his coaching ability and influence have earned him the respect of people in basketball circles." ”
Larry Brown, a 175cm tall guard, was drafted by the Baltimore Bullets (now the Washington Wizards) in 1963; played in the AAU League and ABA League (later merged into the NBA) from 1964 to 1972, was named the ABA All-Star Team three times, was elected ABA All-Star MVP in 1968, and won the ABA championship with Oakland in 1969.
He set a record of 23 assists in a game and announced his retirement in 1972.
Brown began his coaching career in 1973, coaching the Nuggets during his time at ABA, losing to the Nets led by Julius Irving in the 1976 ABA Finals. Larry Brown began coaching NBA teams after the league merger, with Larry Brown coaching eight different NBA playoff teams: the Nuggets (1977-78), the Nets (1982), the Spurs (1990-91), the Clippers (1992-93), the Pacers (1994-96), the 76ers (1999-03), the Pistons (2004-05), the Bobcats (2010), And of course there's Larry Brown's stain on the New York Knicks (2005-2006). Eight of the teams Larry Brown has played in have made the playoffs, a remarkable achievement.
1990: David Robinson, who helped the Spurs and rookie season, reached the Western Conference semifinals and eventually lost to the Blazers (season Western Conference champion) by 3 points in overtime in a tiebreaker.
1994-95: Helped the Pacers reach Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals for two consecutive seasons, losing to the Knicks in Ewing and O'Neill/Hardaway's Magic.
From 1999 to 2003, helped Philadelphia reach the second round four times on five playoff trips, including the 2001 Finals.
In 2001, Larry Brown led the 76ers with Iverson to the Finals for the first time, and although the first game was won at the Lakers' home turf, it went on to lose four consecutive games, 1-4 by the Los Angeles Lakers. However, fans and media at that time believed that the Lakers would sweep 4-0 to win, which showed the gap between the two teams, and winning a game was already a miracle. Later, the Lakers' assistant coach Winters commented on Brown's work: "When Brown controlled Iverson's personality performance, the 76 team was close to the championship; When Iverson broke away from Brown's Law, he and his team were nothing. "
In the 2003–2004 season, Larry Brown succeeded Carlisle as Pistons head coach, and that summer the Pistons brought in the big forward Roaring Wallace. The Pistons played the best defensive system of all time in 2004, and Larry Brown's coaching ability was critical to the Pistons' success. In the 2004 semifinals, the Pistons beat the Nets 4-3, and in the Eastern Conference Finals, they beat the Pacers led by Jermaine O'Neal and Ron Artest 4-2 to meet the Lakers in the finals.
At that time, the Lakers' call for the championship was very high, and the Pistons did not have a first-class star player, and the media praised the Lakers one-sidedly. But Larry Brown didn't let the history repeat itself, and the 4-1 Larry Brown Pistons perfect revenge on Phil Jackson!
When Larry Brown held aloft the O'Brien Cup, he first thanked former coach Carlisle and the players who were traded during the season, which shows that Larry Brown is a coach with different thinking. But in the second year's Finals, the Pistons lost to the Spurs, achieving Duncan's third crown!
Coaching the New York Knicks in 2005-2006 was Larry Brown's toughest memory, with the team's worst record of 23 wins and 59 losses. That season, Larry Brown fought against the team's big names Marbury and Crawford, clashed with assistant coach Isaiah Thomas' coaching style, and had a lot of conflicts with boss Dolan. Although the team won six in a row later, it shut everyone up. But the team owner eventually fired Larry Brown and refused to pay the rest of the contract on the grounds that Larry Brown was interviewed by the media without team management, and eventually the league intervened in Larry Brown to get part of the salary. Of course, the only thing to remember is that on January 14, 2006, Larry Brown became the fourth Thousand Wins coach in league history after coaching the Knicks against the Hawks. Madison Square Garden, New York, sounded a deafening "Pull... Li, La... Li, La... li..." shouted.
Larry Brown revealed in an article in Philadelphia Magazine in 2008 that he had "secret agents all over the court" at the top of the team during his one-year coaching of the Knicks. In addition, the veteran coach also complained about the attitude of the Knicks executives towards him. "Imagine when you go to work and they don't tell you," Brown said. "At the press conference they put inspectors around me, and spies were all over the arena.
In a later interview, Larry Brown talked about the boss Dolan did not let him choose the coaching team, and that Isaiah Thomas as an assistant coach actually hindered him from coaching, and the boss did not side with him after taking back the general manager's power. He thinks the Knicks were a clubbing team that needed to be strictly managed. Brown believes that if owner Dolan can give him time and allow him to make changes to the team, he can definitely make the team great. He excitedly described that Rome was not built in a day, and beauty was not cut with a knife!
In 2008, he was invited by Michael Jordan to become the head coach of the Bobcats and helped the Bobcats reach the playoffs for the first time in their history.
Throughout Larry Brown's coaching career, he has won only one NBA championship. Some people think that's because there are very few superstars like that on his team. But in fact, it is not, maybe Larry Brown is more suitable for taking some blue-collar teams and turning decay into magic. That's his specialty! Larry Brown's stereotypical personality and strict management of the military have always been difficult for the United States, a country that is highly liberal, making it difficult for him to get along with the big names in the team. Larry Brown is a great coach and a coach with mixed reviews. Jay. Rose has said that Larry Brown's unkindness towards him during his time coaching the Pacers made him feel very depressed; Billups has also confessed that Larry Brown's personality once seriously considered the feasibility of strangling Brown; and Larry Brown's beloved disciple, although they eventually met and laughed and hated each other, but Aaron, who was deeply conflicted and parted ways with him. Iverson, on his departure from Philadelphia, angrily stated that Larry Brown's personality and desire for control were unbearable.
This is the real Larry Brown coach, a coach that fans really appreciate and players hate. No one is perfect, and the gold is not enough, so it can only be said that the flaws are not hidden. Perhaps it is precisely because of Larry Brown's mixed reputation that the latecomers are famous all over the world.
Larry Brown 04 Pistons championship classic tactics:
Base position: Rashid Wallace and Omoto block Hamilton, who runs to the left 45-degree angle three-point line without the ball.
Billups passed to Hamilton, who was running out, and big forward Rashid was covering center Ben for Billups in the bottom corner of the run: