Hubie Brown Quotations

We're not a great defensive rebounding team. That's been our Achilles' heel, ... But we get out on the break, we run hard and we play good defense.

We're 30 years older now, so you can go back and appreciate things a lot more, ... It's made for a wonderful year.

Jason Williams is one of the most intelligent basketball guys I've ever seen,

We don't have the big bad wolf Lakers, ... but who's to say there will not be another terrific team in two years. If (Shaquille O'Neal) holds up, Miami could be that team.

There has not been a better post-up 6-6 or 6-7 player in the league than Bernard King.

You have to be happy for them because they were willing to make some bold moves and they paid off for them. They were willing to make the hard decisions. Now, they have all that young talent coming on. And the way they played late in the season, it's a great sign for the future of that team.

The team has not been able to get to the level that they thought they would be at now.

People forget now that (Damon) Stoudamire was having his best year probably in about five seasons before he went out with the leg injury. But they picked up (Chucky) Atkins so it's been able to continue. (Winning 49 games) is a testimony to a general manager who can help a situation.

That's not a laughable question. They're in a good draw.

This is a tremendous honor because I'm stepping into this class with three coaches that I have the greatest respect for.

They try to divide you, all these guys try to divide you and they try to divide the team. They get an unnamed source or a player here (to say) that we're all pointing fingers.

It reinvented me. It got me back doing what I probably was supposed to be doing.

It's all the doors that are open to you by management and athletic directors, ... In coaching, it's your staff and players who make it happen. In TV and with clinics, it's the opportunities that are open to you. TV is a team game also with the play-by-play guy, the producer and the director.

It's overwhelming because it makes you reflect on your entire career as a coach, an analyst and a clinician, ... It puts you in a reflective mode from the day that it was announced. You think back over the highs and the lows. The highs far outweigh the lows. There have been all kinds of rewards. I've been in some incredible situations. It's just been a wonderful ride because of basketball.

Then he was an assistant at Kansas under Larry Brown and was just an excellent assistant. He was very organized and liked to work with front-court people. He's very offensive-minded. He was a good half-court teacher and (good) when you got into your half-court sets. When he had his opportunity at Indiana and San Antonio, they did well offensively.

I'm going in the right way, ... I'm going in as a coach of a team, with the team that put me on the map. That was the most talented team I've ever coached in 16 years as a pro.

In my opinion, they are the favorite, and they are a solid favorite.

I just think it's one of the great stories that we have in the first third of the year.

He's really a major addition. He's playing extremely well, blending into the chemistry. We're learning where to play him and how to play him.

In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.

If something works for another school, use it. Don't act like you are too good to use other ideas

TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination.

Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team.

Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.

No matter how good you are, at top pf your game, always remember that you're a half a step away from the street.

You always want to be able to convey items of interest, items that make the fan see what's happening, help them in their conversations of comparing teams or players and then be able to back it up to open his eyes to the history of the league.

Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.

No one is bigger than the team. You're going to be on time, you're going play hard, you're going to know your job and you're going to know when to pass and shoot. If you can't do those four things you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are.

X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to do

The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court