Larry Brown Five Quotations

I was concerned. We made those last five minutes seem like a year. But there were a lot of good teaching points in that. We had breakdowns but managed to get a win. We can learn from it.

I remember when I was at Kansas, we lost five straight games. I told the team, 'We're playing great,' and we won the national championship a month later.

It is better than in the past, ... We all struggled sometimes, wondering what five games you're going to have a player miss. It could hurt you in some situations. I like the fact that you can keep 15 guys, because that creates more jobs and opportunities for young kids to get better.

We're what, about 1.6, 1.7 million now? I think we need to be around 2 million. Maybe in three or five years we'll be ready.

At the beginning of the game, the first four or five plays they just got to the front of the rim with nobody helping. That was a pretty good indicator of how it went.

We got it down to 13, as silly as it sounds, with five minutes to go. I thought there was a lot of energy at the end. We have to have energy for 48 minutes, and we have to find people who do that.

You never get five guys doing (the right thing) every time, and that's the only way you can be successful.

He told me he was here five weeks ago. He said we'd gotten better. That makes me feel good.

The bottom line is we don't have a rotation, we don't know who can play. So it's going to take time. Eventually we're going to have an eight- or nine-man rotation and we'll probably have nine happy guys and five that are unhappy.

We have to figure out how we defend. It doesn't matter if you have five bad defenders, as a team you can accomplish a lot. That's where we have to get a whole lot better.