<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Kwame Brown that many Wizards fans dislike -- the one suspended for not showing up for practice and essentially quitting on his teammates in the playoffs -- is not the one that Dan Moore remembers. "It's disturbing the whole way this has happened, that he is portrayed that way, because our picture of him is that he is a good guy, and he is always remorseful when he makes mistakes," Moore said. "I'm not surprised that he made a mistake because he is only 23-years-old and living in an adult world. I am a little embarrassed for him, the way he is being portrayed, because that is what we know of him. That is not the full picture of him. "I will stick with my loyalties to Kwame. I love this kid." Moore's defense is yet one more argument for an NBA age limit, but even the proposed 20-year-old limit by commissioner David Stern would not have helped Brown. There are plenty of 23-year-olds who make mistakes in a variety of jobs in the adult world. Some do stupid things and don't show up for work for one reason or another, and they are fired. Most learn from their mistakes and get other jobs. And that is also part of Moore's defense that could come back to haunt Wizards fans -- that, based on at least the opinion of the one person who watched Brown develop as a player during arguably the toughest developing years of one's life, he will get over this, and come back better. "Decisions are decisions," Moore said. "[Brown] is a man now, and he has to live with them. In my case, when he made a bad choice, we were able to work it out. He took the punishment and came back and worked harder and got better each time. To me it appeared that is what he is trying to do with the Wizards. Now, the way he goes about that sometimes is not what you would like to see. But I am used to working with young people, and I don't know if the NBA is used to that. And there is a tolerance level. Where should that tolerance level be? Kwame didn't go past the tolerance level when he was here. "When we disciplined him when we had to, he accepted it and moved forward. It would appear he is past that tolerance level in Washington, and maybe rightfully so. You only get so many chances, and I guess they drew a line in the sand and he stepped over it. Here he got up to the line a couple of times, but he took the discipline and came back from that." Moore said Brown was hardly a pampered superstar in his program. "Unlike most of these young superstars, we dealt with Kwame when issues came up," he said. "We didn't let them pass. He sat two or three games for us when he was a senior, even though he was a first-team Parade All-American and McDonald's All-American. He didn't play a couple of games. Not everything was given to him here. He was just one of our players, and we treated him that way. He was a special one, but if he got out of line, he got disciplined for it." </div> Source
