NBA / Nov 5, 2008 / 10:05 pm
Larry Brown Is The White Whale
In Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick, the white whale is a symbol for many things, including nature and those elements of life that are out of human control. Larry Brown is one of those elements.
When I was in the Bobcats locker room before the game, I should have apologized to D.J. Augustin and Jason Richardson after I spoke with them. Why? Because the Bobcats are going to go 1-81 this season.
Seriously though, I doubt Charlotte wins more than the 23 games LB notched in his stint with the Knicks. How many games do you predict the Hall of Famer wins this season?
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November 5th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
wow says:
He still thinks he’s coaching AI
November 5th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
knoc says:
15wins!!!
November 5th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Dennis Castro says:
That 2nd paragraph made me laugh out loud, because I could totally see it happen.
Will Okafor’s contract go down in history as one of the worst of all time, like Juwan Howard, Raef LaFrentz, and the infamous Brian Cardinal?
November 6th, 2008 at 1:19 am
ju ju says:
fuck okafart!
has the perfect frame of a power house 4 and is on a team of losers (exception of g wallace) to shine on. what the hell holds this guy back? nate robinson get more boards and dunks than this BIG bitch. Back in 05′ it seemed like he was gonna be the next bill russell with his D. Now it’s vice versa every game.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:37 am
Deeeetroit Basketball says:
Larry Brown is and always will be an overrated coach. He just can’t over himself long enough to put the needs of the team ahead of his own useless, whiny, self-aggrandizing, media-grabbing agenda. The Bobcats win less than thirty games, LB gets fired and the world never hears from him ever again. Well, one can hope.
November 6th, 2008 at 3:37 am
dagwaller says:
Love that the blind hate on this site isn’t just limited to international players. You guys spread it around to Hall of Fame coaches, too.
What exactly has Larry Brown done in Charlotte that makes you hate him so bad? Yea, the Bobcats were real powerhouses last year. Too bad they brought this bum (NBA Championship, NCAA Championship, Bball HOF, 1285-853 lifetime NBA record), or else they’d really be tearing it up.
Kind of like the Knicks. They’re so good, they beat the Bobcats…whereas, if it had gone the other way around, be SURE that there wouldn’t have been any talk of how well Brown was coaching a team to 2-2 (and the Knicks would be 1-3).
Not a huge Brown fan, but there are plenty of players that get bought out or have crappy contracts that just keep sitting on the bench instead of getting bought out. When one coach acts like a d-bag, it’s like it’s the end of the world.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:56 am
nicky says:
im with you dagwaller, yall motherfuckers need to stop hatin on larry
November 6th, 2008 at 7:57 am
QQ says:
Dagwaller, you hit at right at the head, buddy. Just pure blind hate. The guy won at the college and pro level, why yall hating, Dime? Every coach is a attentition grabbing freak, it’s all part of being in a glittery NBA world where even a mindless blog about nothing (helloooooo, Mark Cuban) will get you in the spotlight. You’re giving hate on what it seems a random basis.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:29 am
doc says:
23 sounds about right.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:38 am
MSkittle says:
Not sure, but Rick Kamla predicted them to make the playoffs next year. DJ Augustin is nice
November 6th, 2008 at 9:55 am
TBone says:
They will finish with exactly 27 wins.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:56 am
TBone says:
and hey QQ, if you read it, you should know Cuban’s blog isn’t about “nothing”.
The guy is a self make billionaire. I’m sure we could all pick up a thing or two from him
November 6th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Max says:
Larry deserves the hate for the role he played in screwing up the Knicks and the last Olympic team. After he won with the Pistons, he fell off a cliff in his ability to manage players and the press. He’s lucky MJ likes to go d**k riding with any Carolina alum that’s available.
He does have some nice pieces on his team and Augustin is going to be good…if the Cats were in the West, he could beat up on the Wolves and Kings and Clippers. In the East, it’s going to be tough to get to 25 wins.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Dime Magazine says:
More than any other coach, maybe ever, LB brings it on himself.
November 6th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
dagwaller says:
Max, let’s get one thing straight: Larry Brown did NOT screw up the Knicks. What he did was not cool in the least, but the Knicks were bad before he got there, and even worse after he left. Olympics? Terrible. But the Knicks were hardly his first team, and the teams that Team USA put together were notoriously bad fits for the international scene.
Dime Magazine, you’re right. That was pretty low, especially in the wake of the gold medal. Unfortunately, though, Larry is right. Ray Allen and Jason Kidd had both committed to the team; both had to sit because of injuries. At the time, that meant AI and Steph. This was also back when Kobe, Shaq and KG (in their primes) thought that they were too cool for the team, leaving a starting SF of…Lamar Odom.
Even if Larry had started Carmelo over Lamar, and maybe Lebron over Steph (both of which would have been controversial at the time, given that Odom and Steph were more established players), he’d have a team with little depth and VERY little experience in the international scene.
Finally and probably most importantly, you seem to forget that the team that qualified for those 2004 Olympics wasn’t the team that went to the Games. 10 out of the 12 players that qualified couldn’t/wouldn’t play, so that means that however flawed the roster was, it was even more so because they were put together a few short months before the Games.
So, you know…he’s right.