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Richard “TuTu” Brown rewind
The following is an interview with Dunbar H.S. freshman basketball coach and former Wolverines great Richard “TuTu” Brown for the stories “Prep career blooms late” and “Brown takes his last shot with Wolverines tradition.”
He’s making progress and making a change in his behavior. I feel that it made me stronger just dealing with him. He was dealing with me being in his life and trying to give him the right direction.
That’s one of the things I always told him. Despite what you’ve done, I’m still in your life, I still love you and I just want you to succeed in your life.
My father wasn’t in my life like I wanted it to be and I got through some rocky things and used some avenues to get through school and take some heartache off my mother and get to college. Those are some of the things that I preach to him; make it easier on yourself by planting those seeds that you’ll see at the end. I think he’s seeing that now.
The last couple of years, he’s been around it but never involved in it. Now, he has an opportunity to be a part of it and hopefully be one of the guys who can be part of the tradition that we have here. I want him to have the opportunity to have that feeling.
It was a big thing for me, already being a part of the tradition here. Now, he has a chance to build his own tradition and be a part of it. That’s why I got upset with some of his actions. Opportunities are limited. This is his chance for it to happen for him.
The last couple times that we were (at state) he got to be a part of it, but last year he could have had an impact with that team. It did hurt him a bit because I know he could have been a big part of that success.
He’s coming along. It’s different than watching or seeing or hearing. When you get out there it’s a totally different situation and I think that he’s learning that.
Vs. Huron: That was a confidence builder. I know he thought, I’ve got to play against those guys from out of state to show that I can play. He showed that he has that player mentality. That’s another aspect of him growing and helping our team be successful. Hopefully, he’ll have it all in place by March and he can help us bring back another ring and state championship.
Sometimes in drills, I still show them that I can still shoot.
Pullen wanted me to be part of the staff. 2004 started.
Being able to be an alumnus here and former player here, it’s a great feeling to help continue to bring our tradition and make it better for us. I always preach to the young guys that you’ve got to make a tradition for yourselves and be a legacy like some of those on the wall.
They don’t really know. They think I can’t play. They think I make up stuff. I’ll show them my jersey and they’ll say, how’d you do that? The younger generations don’t really know. History and tradition is big here. We’ve got a lot of people who come around to speak about tradition and let them know, you don’t really know who’s coaching you, do you?
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