Posted by sebstar:
No, this is not a legit beef and this is another peek into the questionable character of Larry Brown. Did he have access to the best of the best? No. But what did the other countries have in terms of star power? Did other countries have Kobe, Lebron, ext...
The '04 squad was a poor collection of talent in terms of international ball, and it was poorly coached. Instead of being a man and just accepting responsibility, as usual, LB looks to point fingers and train the spotlight right back onto his fragile ego. We've received the memo a million times Larry, when things go bad its never YOUR fault.
Straight up, Larry is one of the more pathetic figures in sports. If somebody else had his track record, and was not as media friendly, or who wasnt as skilled at flashing that dopey, 'poor me' expression, said individual would have been run out on a rail.
He wins, so he still gets jobs.
Kind of like what I was talking about in my presidential election point: Must we like a man whos effective and wins?
We liked Isiah. He was charming, good looking, and we looked past his executive record. He is perhaps the worst executive in professional sports history. Its all subjective, but money spend vs. wins is one measure.
Larry, like Adolph Rupp, Bobby Knight, Bear Bryant, Landry, Parcells, etc etc were never lovable fellas and only were tolerated cuz they were winners.
And those who were not winners were quickly removed into oblivion and not given further opportunities to redeem their reputations.
Larry is a SOB. So what?
He was stupid to try to coach those spoiled players who had enough talent on a bad day to beat just about anyone.
In our society we seem to "demonize" and lay blame on those who fail us. In knick land, larry seems to almost carry more ire than Isiah.
Larry earned the right long ago to complain, and My guess is Colangelo called him first to ask him what team USA should do going forward to correct the awful process.
Larry has a gold metal. He was the starting point for the 1964 gold winning team.
