Posted by sebstar:
LOL at Larry Brown vs. Isiah being the only run-in he's had in his career.
Who said that?
Larry hasnt met an organizational relationship that he he didnt leave in tatters and shambles.
Define tatters and shambles? Most clubs were made much better by him.
This is a cat that openly negotiated with another organization while his current team was in the playoffs.
That [Detroit] team's management was already openly talking to or about Flip replacing Brown in February of that year, and they could have denied permission to Brown to speak to Cleveland but did not. If the coach talking to another organization was egregious management was equally culpable for it.
Keep in mind, Davidson is the same owner who did the same thing to Rick Carslisle 2 years prior. RC came in, brought them up to 50 wins and got thrown to the curb in favor of LB after 1 season.
He lacks integrity and there are is a major issue with his moral compass.
But his sycophants will continue to defend him. They will continue to try to convince any any everyone that throughout his career its been everyone else's fault and not Larry's. They weren't strong enough to deal with Larry they'll say. They were too weak, they'll say. All the while hypocritically bashing the likes of T.O and Isiah.
Larry's greatest gift, other than his coaching ability, has been his con job over the media. Nobody else in professional sports history has gotten away with more in relation to the criticism received.
You exaggerate. You're too young to have followed LB for long. I suspect you came to hate him for making Iverson pratice and encouraging him to be a leader.
Like most coaches who have a proven style of play, he wants a hand in sculpting the roster. A few years back I took a look at the roster turnover allowed to then far less proven coaches like D'Antoni, Skiles, and I think Nate McMillan and all of them turned over at least 4 players in their first year, and one (I think D'Antoni) turned over like 9. How many did Larry get to purge here, 1?
You can say he likes to move around or wears out his welcome pretty quickly. There's some truth to that (he's had several 2 yr stints) but he's also done 4 years in SA, 4 in Indy, and 6 in Philly. That's not to shabby compared to the national average.
In the end, I don't care if anybody likes him or not, but you can't hire HOF, Championship coaches and treat them like rookies. Isiah did it twice, back-to-back.
1/31/2009 11:23 PM