Tag: Matt Brase
The Rockets were on a flight heading …
The Rockets were on a flight heading from Houston to Los Angeles, hovering somewhere high above the New Mexico/Arizona border, when word broke that their season would be halted. They turned around midair and headed back to Houston. Matt Brase remembers thinking, “I guess we’re not playing the Lakers tomorrow.”
For a coach with his eye set on the …
For a coach with his eye set on the ultimate prize — a coveted NBA head coaching gig — this year was shaping up to be an important one. “That’s the dream,” Brase said, “But the reality is there are 30 of those jobs in the world. I wake up every morning striving to get to that level.”
Coaching for a team with one of the …
Coaching for a team with one of the most well-defined philosophies in the league, if not in all of professional sports, Brase has been beholden to D’Antoni’s uptempo style and Morey’s double-down on data. But Brase has been adding some arrows to his quill. Even if he insists doesn’t want them. “I love what coach does here, so that’s my base,” Brase said. “But when you think about where the game takes you? When I first got to the Rockets as intern, I thought it was crazy, but I attributed it to the NBA. Then you find out we are the extreme outlier. “But it makes sense to us. This is our pulse, our heartbeat.”