If you are gonna be the new employer of a guy, you'd better check out his former boss to see how he did. From what I heard from the people in Philly(through local radio talk shows, online forums and some fans I know), they are not happy at all with him. Here is what I heard about him, and they include pros and cons. Pros: He's a very good coach and a great teacher. He knows the game very well. He knows how to take a bad team to a playoff spot. Cons: 1. Although he's a good coach, he doesn't know how to take a NBA team to the championship. 2. He doesn't know how to put and use sufficient talent on the court to support his franchise player --- Allan Iverson. 3. He's never happy with his current team, and always talking about leaving. The minute he is hired as the head coach, he's looking for his next job. 4. He wastes all his draft picks, because he doesn't know how to coach young players. He never trusts them, and sit them on the bench and let them rust. 5. Whenever he leaves a team, that team is in for a tailspin. The future of the 76ers don't look too bright. They are over the cap, and tortured by fat contracts. They have no rising young players. Well, here is what I heard from the people in Philly. You might notice they mention cons much more than pros. I think that is because they aren't happy with the way he left. Some of them are really bitter. Anyway, just FYI.
My roommate from college is from Philly. He said almost the exact same things. His biggest point was that Brown doesnt know how to develop young talent.
One of the things that does concern me about Larry Brown is his personnel decisions. He always seems itching for change on his roster. Sometimes too much change. But in the Houston scenario Brown would not be in charge of player personnel decisiosn. That would fall on CD/Rudy. So I like the "checks and balances" method here. As for Brown and working well with young players.... That is something this team needs. Griffin and Nachbar NEED to be developed and Yao and Francis need to be taken to the next level. That is the key.
Brown doesnt know how to develop young talent. Then Brown needs to find another team besides the Rockets.
Take a philly fan's assessment with a grain of salt, as long as they are not throwing batteries and beer bottles, I would consider it a rousing endorsement!
What do the other teams he's coached think? He's seemed to turn most all of these teams around, so he must be doing something right! And besides, we don't know who we're getting as our new coach anyway.
i live in philly. there are mixed feelings on him here. all the sports radio guys think that sixers fans should be greatful for Brown, because before he came, the sixers had like 9 straight seasons where they were horrendous. brown short've helped save the franchise. some people are mad he didn't lead the sixers to a title. but i really don't think it's his fault. he wasn't good as a gm, but he was a good coach.
Again, that's my feeling as well. Not really excited about Brown's GM capabilities but am about his coaching. That's why I am glad we have CD/Rudy as the GM here and Brown (if hired) could totally focus on coaching.
I don't quite understand. On the one hand, I'm hearing he's a great teacher and, on the other, that he can't develop young talent. Is this not a contradiction? I'm concerned about the way Brown seems to conduct team politics versus the way Rudy and the Rockets have always handled it. Rudy has always kept the family disputes in-house and never talked to the media about any problems he may have with any players. Players mostly followed suit; and it was a big deal when they did not. Brown isn't as bad as Karl, but does seem to air the dirty laundry in the newspaper. Besides the fact I don't like this approach, to what extent I wonder will it cause problems with the players and the front office.
The arguement of a coach not 'knowing what it takes to win a title' is crap. There is only one coach per year that 'knows how to win a title', and lately the same coach has been doing it. Just because Brown hasn't been one yet doesn't mean he never will. As for the Philly fans, their opinion doesn't matter either. I would be more willing to look at the opinions of the other Team owners/GM's to see their thoughts on Brown as coach. Since like 6 other teams are all interested in Brown being their coach, I'd say he knows what he is doing. 1. Larry Brown 2. Mike Dunleavy, Sr. 3. Anyone else available before Van Gundy
young talent? i didn't know that the rockets had young talent. eddie griffin please. he's a low scale robert horry. boki? hmmmm... maybe rudy was keeping him on the bench for a reason (although i'd like to think otherwise). other than those two... what young talent do the rockets have? tito? jaquin? the soon to be leaving collier? the argument is invalid. the rockets could live without more young players.... unless you'd like the hear the "young and full of potential" crap again next offseason. one thing about brown is that he's known for bringing in veterans... something lacking in our current roster.
Well Rudy can't develop young players either. So too bad. Larry Brown........he did pretty good with Eric Snow and Tood Macaullough. And Philly fans shouldn't be disappointed. Their team sucks! All they have is Allen Iverson. What do they expect? It's not like Jeff Van Gundy is a great teacher. Neither is Paul Silas. The Hornets didn't even have any young guys. Mike Dunleavy.......what?!? Larry Brown is the best coach available. I still want him. He took the 76ers to the finals once. They should be grateful. Jeff Van Gundy didn't take his team to a championship. If you want someone who has won a championship and is a good coach......then Pat Riley or Phil Jackson. Rick Adelman.....has he won a championship? He's a good coach...he hasn't even gone to the finals recently. #4. He lets them die on the bench. Well Rudy does the same...only when he absolutely has to use them. Larry Brown isn't a perfect coach. But he is the best coach available. And he is the best fit for Houston.
A. He did take his team to the championship 2. If You mean he can't take a team to win the championship, then there are only a handful of current coaches we can use
Denver, LAC, San Antonio, and now Philly... all of these teams made the same mistake of trying to impliment a quick fix by making larry brown the head coach, and sure he drastically improved them ....but 2 things were fairly certain with the teams mentioned above... 1. he stays for figuratively and sometimes literally no longer than a blink of an eye... 2. when he leaves, he leaves his team so scourched and burned out that it takes them years and sometimes decades (denver, LAC) to recover... the pacers were the only team to seemingly survive this curse...but then again they are in the nba's junior varsity (eastern conf)... brown is also a guy that rumors to retire each year so that receive the begging and pleading from his owner and gm that gives him a seemingly false sense of fulfilment that he truly will not receive until he is named the coach of his beloved UNC tarheels...u think its a coincidense that unc picked matt doherty over him a few years back??????? dean smith aint no fool... that being said, brown is a great x and o coach...but i feel that his philosophy of getting his marquee players that ball at the end of a posetion rather than at the begining will greatly negate yao's great passing ability... we as rocket fans have been spoiled by the lack of drama in the front office throughout the rudy t administration...i for one do not want to see the front office headlines that were prevelant when the oilers were in town... memo to les: save yourself and your fans 3 wasted years which may or may not result in playoff appearances and a great many years of problems thereafter and dump this guy off of your list..... MIKE DUNLEVY IS THE WAY TO GO (i didnt feel like retyping it)
So how does a guy that doesn't know how to handle young talent win a National Championship in College Basketball?
Head Coaches that have won NBA titles in the past 19 years: Phil Jackson Rudy Tomjanovich Greg Popovich Chuck Daly Pat Riley KC Jones NBA titles aren't the end all and be all of the quality of a coach. Larry Brown has a reputation of taking on a challenge. The Houston job is challenging, but not too challenging.
