Jerry Sloan
Jerry Sloan
Gerald Eugene "Jerry" Sloanis an American former National Basketball Association player and head coach, and a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame. Former NBA commissioner David Stern called Sloan "one of the greatest and most respected coaches in NBA history." Sloan had a career regular-season win–loss record of 1,221–803, placing him third all-time in NBA wins at the time he retired. Sloan was only the fifth coach in NBA history to reach 1,000 victories and is one of two...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth28 March 1942
opportunity players upset veteran
I was more disappointed in our veteran players. You know, you can be upset with the young players ? but some of them haven't had an opportunity to be on the floor.
learned smart
(Miami) is a smart team, they execute. We haven't learned to do that in an offense. We can't do it one-on-one.
begin comfort front playing shut zone
We just couldn't keep them in front of us. We couldn't keep them from penetrating to the basket. They got about everything they wanted tonight. They were playing in such a comfort zone that we couldn't even begin to shut them down.
block boards difference guys line missing second shots trying understand win
We just couldn't do anything with them in overtime. I can understand guys missing shots, but I don't understand not being able to block them off the boards and give them second shots while we're trying to win a ballgame. They got to the free-throw line and we didn't. That was the difference in the game.
beginning defended fought half playing scoring second time tough
We fought at the beginning of the second half and then they just annihilated us. They defended us well and we had a very tough time scoring inside. If we keep playing like that, we won't get into the playoffs.
almost came hang night played pressure
We came out real soft. They put pressure on us and we just kind of would hang out. That's the way we played almost all night long.
ball confused decided difficult early game mistakes soft start terrible
We were so confused at the start of the ball game, and made some terrible mistakes defensively and couldn't get into our offense. We decided to play a soft game early and we had a difficult time.
head maybe
Maybe I'll have 12 captains, ... I've got a lot of things going on in my head with that right now.
difficult everybody fairly good guys happy order playing
I think they've always been fairly responsive. Everybody has their own way of playing and everybody has their strengths. In order to get 12 guys happy in that situation, it's kind of difficult at times to do. But I think for the most part they've done a pretty good job.
break concept executing guys hard instead shoot team time touch
Guys are not getting enough shots. Shoot every time they touch it. Instead of executing the play, they break every play down. It's pretty hard to have any kind of team concept with that.
We couldn't do anything in overtime. They made their shots, and we just couldn't make any of ours.
figure itself
That will figure itself out at the end of the year.
took
That was pretty big for us. It took away their momentum.
basketball player needs
I don't need my players to like me. I need them to play for me