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12/12/2005 |  He has won the NBA Championship when he stepped into a good situation with the Pistons. However, he maintained their good defense and taught them to push the ball up the court in transition, which they didn't do under Rick Carlisle. His defenses are always good, but his offenses sometimes lack. Last year, when the Pistons tried to repeat they were ranked 26th in offense. Brown plays games with management all the time and is known to bail-out. With the Pistons, he threatened to quit several times including after the Brawl at the Palace with Ron Artest, a few weeks later after argueing with an official after a game, and after he complained about his health (3 times). Last season, he argueably cost the Pistons the home-court in the playoffs by missing 15 games in the regular season, threatening to quit several times, and talking to several teams. He also complained weeks after the Brawl that it was affecting the way the teams played on the court. He also lies to the media. He said he didn't go to the Knicks or Lakers when those rumors surfaced, so that the media shouldn't be suspicious of him wanting to leave Detroit. Funny how he ended up with the Knicks. He had discussions with the Cleveland Browns in the playoffs when he was supposed to be getting ready for a championship run and he was fighting with Pistons' Owner Bill Davidson behind the scenes. He is a camera diva and loves attention and loves to cater for other coaches to get jobs who are usually unworthy. He catered for Mike Woodson, Randy Ayers, Herb Brown, Gar Heard, and several other coaches with losing records. Browns' strategy involves relying on his starting 5 heavily and not much use of his bench. Chauncey Billups said that Brown wore out the starting 5 last season and perhaps didn't use the bench enough. He had a questionable call that may have cost the Pistons a championship when they were up 9 points and he decided to play small-ball at the end of the 3rd quarter in the Game 7 of the 2005 championship. Instead of putting Elden Campbell on Duncan, he went small with no center or power forward and Duncan quickly went to work and tied up the game. In the fourth quarter, Duncan and Ginobili finished off the Pistons' with the momentum they gained as they finished a tired Rasheed Wallace and Chauncey Billups. He caused his team to have to play two game-7's in critical situations on the road (Miami and San Antonio) and the law of averages caught up to his team. Instead of playing a zone like they did in the 2004 Finals against Shaq, he wore Ben Wallace out playing him man-up against O'Neal in the conference finals and wore him down. This led to Detroit being tired and losing the first two games against a rested Duncan who didn't play against O'Neal and polished the Suns in 5 games and were well rested. Brown is a good coach with good defenses, average offense, and relys heavily on his starters. His strengths are improving low quality teams and making them playoff teams. His weaknesses are relying too much on his starters and not enough on his bench, his diva stunts with the media, worrying too much about the nba coaching network and getting other coaches jobs, and mainly, being unloyal to the teams he coaches. He left Detroit because he got 10 million dollars plus a 7 million dollar buyout from the Pistons, not because he loves New York. Now he is threatening to take time off New York because he is losing games and using his health as an excuse again. He couldn't guarantee the Pistons a full season and they are doing better without him. Overall, he is in elite coaching company because he has an NBA championship, which most coaches do not have. His strongest quality is improving teams that are below 500. However, he has a lot of dirty laundry that comes with his assets.
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