Coatesvillain

His six year marriage with the Sixers ended, on a Summer day, where a choked up Larry Brown sat next to Ed Snider, and Billy King. At the time, it seemed like the former coach was headed towards retirement where he would have a chance to "smell his kids", not long aftewards Larry Brown left for Detroit to become their head coach.

No compensation was given, as Ed Snider didn't want to make it hard on his friend to find another job. As the season started, it didn't take long for Larry Brown to get his jabs in on Allen Iverson, to laughs from the Detroit media. Six years were gone, and he was the enemy.

Now.. Larry Brown leads the Pistons into the NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers, and the question is.. what do you think of him now? Do you hope for him to finally win the Championship? Are you purposely cheering against him? Do you even care about him anymore?

I'll reply with my thoughts, I was just curious to see how you guys felt.

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Vermillion

I may be biased, since he's my favorite coach of all time. I do wish him the best going into the Finals, and I don't hate or resent him for leaving Philly. I deeply appreciate what he has done for the Sixers.

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"If you've ever seen Iverson play in person, you know that his improvisational skills are amazing. Baron Davis calls him unguardable. He's a killer on the fast break. One on one, even one on two, when the guy they call the Answer is on a one-way trip to the basket, you better just foul him. People can hate all day about the number of shot attempts. But, damn, give him props for even getting them up. He's small enough to have every shot contested. That 39% shooting sounds terrible to the regular reader, but have you seen these NBA players lately?"

-SLAM issue #68, April 2003

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FAVORITE TEAM: Denver
OTHER FAVORITES: New York, New Orleans, Charlotte, Memphis, LA Lakers, Philadelphia, Indiana, Boston, Houston
TOP 5 FAVORITE PLAYERS: Allen Iverson, Adam Morrison, TJ Ford, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul (and OJ Mayo)
OTHER FAVORITES: Samuel Dalembert, Michael Redd, Salim Stoudemire, Rajon Rondo, Gilbert Arenas, Emeka Okafor, Kobe Bryant, Randy Foye, JJ Redick, Marcus Camby, Kyle Lowry, Andre Iguodala, Sasha Vujacic, Acie Law, Thaddeus Young, Joakim Noah, Javaris Crittenton (rookies: Mayo, Beasley, Speights, Batum, Hickson, Weaver, Rose, Gordon, Gallinari)

BEEZ

I cant stand him. I hope Phil Jackson totally outclasses him and thats that. How can you like anyone that left your favorite team in the mess that it is right now and not be upset. Not me

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Coatesvillain

Truthfully, I've hated Larry Brown ever since the 2001-02 season. I was frustrated with some of his substitution patterns in our great playoffs run, but success allowed me to overlook it. In the first round of 01-02, why didn't he even try to play Raja Bell and place him on Paul Pierce? Would it have been so hard?

Overall though, I would love to see Phil Jackson outclass him, but I can't root against Coatesville's own Rip Hamilton, especially since he's getting another shot at Kobe. I absolutely hate the Lakers, and Larry Brown, if there was a way for the Pistons to win and Brown to lose, I'd take that route.. but I don't think that's possible.

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Allen Iverson

I can't wait to see LB get swept

Eagles in 2003

I hate Larry Brown, but i hate the Lakers wayyyyy more. So i'll be rooting for the Pistons.

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JGKoblenz

I always enjoyed to see Larry Brown and his love/hate relationship with AI. It was one of my favorite things to see in the NBA, I am not surprised to see Brown on the finals, since IMO he is a great coach and knows what he has to do to win.

But I will be rooting against him.

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kirk_2003

Why do so many people hate LARRY BROWN... the man is a good coach...?

Coatesvillain

The reason people hate Brown, is because of his condenscending nature, and the way he basically handles everything. Looking at the situation with the Sixers, at least 95% of his problems with Iverson could have been completely avoided if he settled them with Iverson instead of taking everything to the press.

He's a great coach, but he's one of those guys who you like as a coach until he comes and coaches your team.

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Eagles in 2003

I believe hes also partly responsible for recent bad free agent moves,weak drafts. We spent alot of money on guys like Dikembe(gone),Buckner and Monty Williams(both injured often and not of much use), and Aaron McKie(good player, just overpaid). We have also made it impossibly to mesh as a team, by trading Mutombo after half a year to get Keith Van Horn. We traded Van Horn. We traded like three players to get Derrick Coleman. Now out of all the deals of the post 2001 finals era....what do we have to show.....
An overpaid Aaron Mckie, Three injury prone busts for the most part...Buckner,Williams, and Coleman. From the past few drafts we have a few solid players, none have gotten much PT until this year. Then we have Glenn Robinson, who did little to help us this season. His non stop personnel moves have really screwed the sixers. From the finals squad we have AI,Eric Snow, and Aaron Mckie....let me know if i forgot anyone.

Then the worst part of it all, Brown gives this little speech and everyone thinks hes ready for retirement after he leaves...but no. He goes to the Pistons just days later. So it turns out he left the Franchise, which he put into a downward spiral, only to go to a contender...classless to me.

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Coatesvillain

I'd like to dump the all of the blame on Larry Brown, but when he left, Eric Snow had a reasonable contract, same with Iverson, DC was a free agent, Kenny Thomas was a restricted free agent.

Okay, so we had to give Iverson the deal, that's understandable he's the team's star player. Eric Snow is heading into the twilight of his career, he probably didn't have to think before signing the contract, the numbers they threw his way were crazy. The Sixers were so scared of possibly losing Coleman to Indiana, they gave him his deal, which was three years (obviously a year too long).

Also, just something I wanted to point out, Mutombo was with the Sixers for one and a half seasons. Right now, the problem the team has with Robinson's contract, is a trickle down from signing Mutombo to that bad contract. Why'd they do that? They didn't want to lose him to Portland. And that I believe was Larry Brown's fault, then looking at that, we basically traded Mutombo for Big Dog, Marc Jackson, and Todd MacCullouch's contract. Yeah, that's pretty ugly.

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Allen Iverson

Yeah you rant on Mutombo, but Big Dog has been a big step backward.

BEEZ

NOt true at all. Neither of them really produced. But at least you have some flexibility with Robinsons contract coming off the books this year

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dcrono3

I hated Larry Brown when he signed with the Pistons. I felt that he was a total TRAITOR. How can you leave your team for the team which beat your team in the playoffs? I felt that Brown was disrespecting the Sixers, jumping ship. Instead of trying to help the Sixers beat the Pistons next year he jopined the enemy.

I respect him as a coach, however. I have to admit he is a good coach and I HATE the Lakers (especially after 2000...), so I will be routing for the Pistons. (I'm the only guy routing for the Pistons in my grade, and I got a great deal of delight after the Piston's won Game 1 and I was able to gloat =P)

dcrono3

Good coach but it feels like he betrayed the Sixers by joining the Piston's right after the Piston's eliminated the Sixers.