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Another college coach fails in the NBA: Larry Brown resigns

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Small Town Guy, Dec 22, 2010.

  1. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    By amazing coincidence, as of today (basketball-reference.com) Larry Brown has coached 2338 games in pro basketball, and 238 in college basketball. Pretty easy to do the math.
     
  2. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    You forget the part about Larry Brown inheriting a joke of a franchise that was picked dead last and immediately leading them to the two best records in franchise history his first two seasons, not to mention the franchise's first ever winning record and playoff appearances.

    C'mon, it's the Bobcats. Brown did better than anybody else ever did with that franchise and better than anyone expected when he took the job.

    And speaking of "rinse and repeat", how bout the exact same over the top anti-Brown diatribe you post on every single thread that mentions his name. What the hell did that guy do to you?
     
  3. Jake_Taylor

    Jake_Taylor Well-Known Member

    I heard Larry made some good investments and he's actually a billionaire. He's going to buy the Hornets and move them to Norfolk, but only if the tax payers build him an arena. ;)
     
  4. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Which family?
     
  5. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    which makes him just like 85% of all owners
     
  6. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    1) Chronic unethical and dishonest behavior involved with his departures from Detroit and New York (and many others; those are just the most recent and most flagrant examples).

    2) The worst coaching job in the history of the sport of basketball at the Athens Olympics.

    3) His role in distorting the entire sport of basketball into a sludge-bound exercise in coach-imposed represssion, and his continual low-key propaganda campaign over the last 30 years, aided and abetted by his sycophants in the media, that HIS way is the one and only "right way to play," which has subliminally wormed its way into "conventional wisdom." Basketball used to be fun to watch. Now it's a fuckin' ordeal.

    Brown (along with Chuck Daly and Pat Riley) has been instrumental in a fundamental change in basketball philosophy that the route to success primarily lies in preventing and obstructing things from happening rather than actually making them happen (There are political parallels if you want to make them but let's not go there). Essentially the whole key of "the right way to play" is to minimize the amount of actual basketball which takes place during the game.
     
  7. Bob Cook

    Bob Cook Active Member

    Paul Silas happily accepts the job, and tells the local media: "See you next Tuesday."
     
  8. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    Jesus, was he speaking Chinese?
     
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