One of Larry Brown’s catch phrases as a coach was “play the right way.”

Now he has a player he can point to who epitomizes just what he means.

“I think he’s anybody’s type of player,” Brown said of Sixers point guard Andre Miller. “He talks more on the court than off the court. He is such a professional. He’s terrific. He’s one of the most underrated players I’ve ever been around. I always tease about playing the right way and everybody always asks me what that means, well, he’s a pretty good examples of that. I just think as a player -- and you can never, ever make up for Allen (Iverson) and what he meant to your team – but when you look at some trades that are being made and you find that we got Andre Miller at least. That’s pretty significant.”

Brown was in Atlanta with the Sixers on Monday, visiting with his brother, Herb, an assistant with Atlanta as well as former Brown assistants Bob Bender and Mike Woodson, now the Hawks’ head coach.

It’s obvious that Brown is itching to get back to coaching, and he spends a lot of time in the Sixers’ practice facility working with any player who will listen to them.

And though he says teaching and practicing is what he loves best about the game, he longs to get back behind a bench and prove that his last go-round with the 23-59 Knicks in 2005-2006 was the anomaly in his Hall of Fame career.