Love Hubie Brown. 

Absolutely love him. Thought he was a brilliant coach, love his work for ABC/ESPN, loved his work back in the TNT/TBS days, and hated it when Turner passed on his services once TNT was reduced to the Thursday double-header back in 2002-03.

Yeah, his flameout in Memphis was pretty easy to call (I was way into one-line paragraphs back then), even on the day after he was hired to coach the team, but that doesn't mean he isn't a voice worth listening to. 

And that doesn't mean he isn't incredibly, incredibly scary.

I found this link yesterday over at The Basketball Jones, and it will take you to a basketball coaching website that is offering a sort of how-to manual for coaches, with Hubie taking the lead.

Brown was paying a little more attention to his hair back then (trying to be delicate, here; because, again, we're scared of the man), so we're guessing the clip was filmed sometime in either the late 1980s, or early 90s. 

Here's a YouTube version of the piece you'll find on the site:

The man is intense. And talented. And smart. And scary. Very, very scary. 

This seems like as good a time as any to bring up the time when a Kentucky Colonels (the ABA team Hubie used to coach) walked up to Brown after a Colonels practice to ask Hubie a rather innocuous question.

Brown's response was just to stare silently at the man, without blinking, for a good minute and a half, until the executive excused himself from the state of Kentucky.