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Kings coach Mike Brown on tough emotions after Bulls comeback win

Sacramento Kings coach Mike Brown expressed the team’s dissappointment after the Chicago Bulls’ comeback win.

On Wednesday night, the Sacramento Kings had a win in the bag. They stomped the Chicago Bulls for the first three quarters of the game, amassing a 22-point lead at the height of their dominance in the third. It was an impressive display and one that a middling Kings team needed amidst their recent up-and-down stretch. But they didn’t win.

Instead, the Bulls stormed all the way back throughout the fourth quarter behind a 19-point final frame from DeMar DeRozan. Coby White even finished the night with a career-high 37 points. Chicago stole a win in Sacramento, and the Kings were devestated.

After the game, Kings head coach Mike Brown expressed the disappointment his team was feeling post-game.

“Obviously, everybody’s down because it was a winnable game,” Brown said via ESPN. “Even though we feel like we didn’t play well, we still felt it was a winnable game. We felt like we let this one slip through our fingers, and so it’s tough right now. It’s tough for anybody to swallow this one.”

The Kings may not be too pleased, but this was a huge win for the Bulls.

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6 incidents that had NBA coaches fuming over referees this season, including Steve Kerr’s Nuggets rant

NBA coaches seem a lot angrier than usual with referees this year.

The NBA has an officiating problem. That is, at least, if you listen to many of the head coaches around the association this season.

In a year that should be defined by stories like the Denver Nuggets’ pursuit of back-to-back championships, the rise of the young Oklahoma City Thunder, and Joel Embiid’s title pursuit with the Philadelphia 76ers, it feels like there’s a coach raging about skewed officiating seemingly every other night. Unfortunately, such a saga will often take precedence over more compelling on-court stories about some of the league’s better teams and brighter stars.

We’re over halfway into this NBA regular season, and we’ve already got more than a few doozies where coaches publicly ripped referees. Let’s take a look at some of the more high-profile incidents (so far).

Kings coach Mike Brown gives ultimate respect to Sixers’ Tyrese Maxey

Sacramento Kings coach Mike Brown has the ultimate respect for Philadelphia 76ers star Tyrese Maxey.

PHILADELPHIA — One of the rising stars in the NBA, Philadelphia 76ers guard Tyrese Maxey continues to turn heads. He has had one of the tougher challenges in the league as he has had to take over the starting point guard spot after the James Harden saga.

Maxey hasn’t blinked as he’s averaging 26.1 points and 6.6 assists while shooting 45.1% from the floor. He has been fearless in every sense of the word and his development continues to be one of the fastest in the NBA.

Before the Sixers knocked off the Sacramento Kings 112-93 on Friday, Maxey received a lot of praise from Kings coach Mike Brown.

“Man, that dude is just explosive,” said Brown. “He’s a small guy. When you’re talking about the traditional explosive guys. The LeBrons (James) and stuff like that. He’s not Allen Iverson, but he’s fearless like AI was. When you have as explosive as they are and he’s fearless, meaning they don’t care how many times they get knocked to the ground. They don’t care who they see in front of them.”

There are so many ways Maxey can beat a team. He can knock down a deep, step-back triple, he can get to the basket and finish around taller defenders, he can knock down a mid-range jumper, and he can also accelerate and stop on a dime to score.

There are not a lot of players in the NBA who can do what he does on a nightly basis.

“They’re gonna take the 3 when it’s open,” Brown continued of Maxey. “They’re gonna take the pull-up if it’s open or they’re gonna dunk on you if there’s a lane. When you have that, man, it’s hard to guard because of his quickness and all the other athletic attributes that he has mixed in with his skill set so he’s gonna be a tremendous talent in this league for a long time.”

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Notre Dame officially names Mike Brown it’s new wide receivers coach

It’s official!

It was clear that [autotag]Chansi Stuckey[/autotag] was a players coach at Notre Dame, but that didn’t matter to head coach Marcus Freeman, as he let go of this former wide receivers coach.

On Sunday evening, the Irish announced they had found Stuckey’s replacement, [autotag]Mike Brown[/autotag], even if it was one of the worst kept secrets. New leaked over a week ago that this move was going to happen, but it now has become official.

Brown held the same position for the Wisconsin Badgers this season, also with the associate head coach moniker along with his receiver duties. He followed Luke Fickell from Cincinnati where he was also the receivers coach along with passing game coordinator in his final season in 2022.

The former NFL receiver played collegiately at Liberty and was named the Big South Player of the Year in 2009 and 2010.

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Notre Dame officially hires a Wisconsin assistant coach

Notre Dame officially hires a Wisconsin assistant coach

Notre Dame officially announced the hiring of now former Wisconsin wide receivers coach Mike Brown earlier this afternoon. He will take the same position for the Fighting Irish.

Brown was Wisconsin’s WR coach for one season, that after being Fickell’s WRs coach at Cincinnati from 2019-2022. He oversaw a position group at Wisconsin that underwent a massive shift with Phil Longo’s air raid offense. The results weren’t terrific, but the wide receiving core was just one of many position groups that underwhelmed this season.

The former NFL wide receiver now joins a Notre Dame staff that is looking to bring the team to the next level after consecutive 9-win seasons under head coach Marcus Freeman.

Wisconsin, meanwhile, is now in the market for a new wide receivers coach.

Report: A Wisconsin assistant coach is on the move to another program

Report: Wisconsin’s wide receivers coach is on the move to another program

Wisconsin football will likely see some roster turnover this season as the transfer portal cycle continues and head coach Luke Fickell looks to bolster the team entering his second season.

A report from yesterday signals some coaching turnover as well. Matt Zenitz of 247Sports reported that Wisconsin wide receivers coach Mike Brown is leaving for the same position at Notre Dame under Marcus Freeman.

Brown was Wisconsin’s WR coach for one season, that after being Fickell’s WRs coach at Cincinnati from 2019-2022. He is reported to join a Notre Dame program that went 9-3 in 2023 and is searching for stability with the rest of the country caught in conference realignment.

Wisconsin, meanwhile, will need a new coach for a unit that is so important to Phil Longo’s air raid attack. 2023 was a disappointment offensively, so the new coach would play a big role in that being reversed in 2024.

Report: Notre Dame has found their next wide receivers coach

Thoughts?

It appears Notre Dame has found their new wide receivers coach.

Less than a week after parting ways with Chansi Stuckey, the Irish are headed back to Wisconsin for another assistant.

Back to Wisconsin via Cincinnati, anyway.

According to reports from 247Sports and Bucky’s 5th Quarter, Notre Dame will be hiring Mike Brown to be their next wide receivers coach.  Brown coached the receivers at Wisconsin this season after having spent the previous four seasons at Cincinnati.

The Cincinnati connection is worth noting not just because of Marcus Freeman but also because of quarterbacks coach Gino Guidugli whose time overlapped with Brown.  Both followed Luke Fickell to Wisconsin although Guidugli left for Notre Dame before coaching any games.

Brown played at Liberty University before spending three seasons in the NFL.

We will have more on this story as it develops.

Titans make several roster moves ahead of game vs. Jags

The Titans announced six roster moves ahead of their Week 11 game against the Jaguars.

The Tennessee Titans made a grand total of six roster moves ahead of their Week 11 matchup against the Jacksonville Jaguars at EverBank Stadium on Sunday.

After a stint on injured reserve, safety Mike Brown has been activated. The 24-year-old hasn’t played in a game since Week 3 when he suffered an ankle injury against the Cleveland Browns.

With how badly the Titans’ secondary has played, Brown, who has one pass defensed in 26 defensive snaps this season, has a shot to get some work at safety.

Tennessee has been rolling with Amani Hooker and Elijah Molden since the Kevin Byard trade, but neither has been good this season.

Here’s a look at the rest of the moves the Titans made on Saturday.

‘They kicked our behind’: After two losses, Sacramento’s Mike Brown praises Rockets

“They came ready to play tonight and punched us in the mouth, and we didn’t respond,” Kings head coach Mike Brown says of the Rockets.

Though they were without All-Star guard De’Aaron Fox (right ankle sprain), the Sacramento Kings lost by a single point on Nov. 1 at Golden State — and it required a Klay Thompson buzzer-beater.

The Kings were nowhere near as close, however, in their next two games. The Rockets crushed Sacramento on Saturday and Monday in Houston, and the average margin of victory was more than 20 points.

Houston, which finished tied for last among 15 Western Conference teams a season ago, won with ease versus a Sacramento group that finished third. It was a stunning turn of events, and Kings head coach Mike Brown gave credit to his counterpart, Ime Udoka, in Houston.

Brown’s postgame comments:

They kicked our behind. Starting with me, Ime kicked my behind, and on down the line. They came ready to play tonight and punched us in the mouth, and we didn’t respond.

It was evident when you look at the game and you watch us defensively, just how many times in the first half … somebody on the weak-side block ducked in front of our defender and caught the ball at the charge line.

I don’t know if I’ve been a part of any situation where we gave up four or five duck-ins … to where the duck-in was at the charge line. That’s just the evidence of them kicking us in our behind.

Complete video of Brown’s postgame remarks from Monday night is available below (via NBC Sports California).

“The tough part about it, our spirit got deflated, and we didn’t have anyone on the floor that could bring it back up,” Brown concluded in his remarks. “That also was tough to watch.”

The Rockets (3-3) have won three straight, overall, and excluding samples of two games or less, they’re at .500 or better for the first time since being 11-11 early in the 2020-21 NBA season.

All three wins have come within the friendly home confines of Toyota Center, and that’s where the Rockets look to keep the momentum rolling on Wednesday versus the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Why Mike Brown surprisingly loved Keegan Murray hurling expletives at the Kings coach

Keegan Murray had an unusual way of owning up to his mistake

Second-year Sacramento Kings star Keegan Murray is already well on his way towards becoming one of the best shooters in the NBA. He drilled 41.1 percent of his shots from behind the arc in his rookie season (on 6.3 attempts per game) and looks ready to surpass that this year with an average of 9.7 attempts through three games.

Simply put, Murray has an elite jump shot and the Kings want him using it more.

So you can imagine the frustration of Sacramento coach Mike Brown when Murray passed up an open three-pointer and got called for traveling on Sunday night against the Lakers. The coach immediately shouted for Sasha Vezenkov sub in for Murray.

But before Brown could yank Murray, the small forward found himself in the exact same spot with the ball on the next possession and let the three fly without hesitation. He sank the shot, naturally, but it’s what Murray did next that couldn’t help but make Brown smile: he turned around and yelled “[expletive] you” at his coach.

After watching the sequence play out, Vezenkov walked back to the bench with a laugh. The way Brown talked about the interaction shows just how much he enjoyed the moment.

The Kings went on to beat the Lakers 132-127 in overtime with Murray pouring in 17 points. It could’ve been 20. Brown probably won’t let him forget that — even if Murray heard the message loud and clear in the moment.