<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">It must be time to get in playoff mode. If the Pistons meet the Cavaliers at some point, the first volley has been fired, and Larry Brown was the target in Sunday's Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Why again, exactly, is Brown revered?" was written by columnist Bill Livingston before Brown's Pistons beat LeBron's Cavaliers, 90-87, on Sunday. The writer suspected something like that might happen, and he warned in advance not to give L.B. too much credit for a win. Basically, the premise of the column was that Brown is overrated, accepts all the credit and none of the blame, and -- had their positions been reversed -- never could have done the job Rick Carlisle did with the Pacers this season. Livingston allows that Brown has won an NCAA championship (but left Kansas on probation) and an NBA title (though with a team ready to win, augmented by the addition of Rasheed Wallace and against a dysfunctional Lakers squad). And he ends with Brown's bronze-medal effort in the Athens Olympics: "He set the players up to fail by constantly doubting them. When they failed, he was, as his nickname among several NBA types put it, 'Larry Blameless.'</div> Source
