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
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I'm really glad for what happened to Karl Malone, but these guys weren't involved in that that much. Their basic job is to get ready and play basketball, and I didn't think we came out with that intention.
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In the second half, they played harder and caused us to take tougher shots. We shouldn't have been worn down in the third quarter when they put pressure on us. You have to give them credit. They brought it to us.
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If you're supposed to be on a certain place on the floor defensively, you've got to get there. You can't just go crazy. And if you've got a certain assignment on the offensive end of the floor, that all remains the same. But if we break it down because we've got something else in mind, then the other four guys don't have any idea what we're doing. It's just basketball. But we have to play it together.
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I never took him out the second half. Usually I take him out, but he was so alive tonight that I didn't take him out at all.
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I'm not asking them to be Karl Malone, but I think I have a right to hold players accountable. If I do that, then I'm being a little bit too harsh on them at times. But we have a tendency to think that no work is the best policy and that will cause you a great deal of trouble.
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I kind of got that feeling after a while. If I'm being discussed, I kind of want to be there.
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The games mean still something. It's not like you just throw (the ball) out there and you don't care if you win or lose.
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The games are important. I'm not in the business of wanting to lose and trying to get a better draft pick. I really don't care about the draft pick.
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You've got to get close enough to him to foul him. I wouldn't feel very good about myself if a guy scored a lot of points and I didn't use my fouls to try to stop him.
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Andre made the big block. He looked like he was going to foul the guy but he kept stretching out his arms. He blocked the shot and came away with the ball.
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Andrei was terrific in helping our people. His seven blocked shots were lifesaving coming down the stretch. Their momentum picked up there at the end and we looked a little tired, but he kept us out of trouble.
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Andrei was terrific in helping our people (defensively). He had seven blocked shots which was really life saving coming down the stretch because their momentum picked up there at the end.
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Andrei was terrific. He was all over the place. He was terrific defensively, he shot the ball well and did a terrific job passing the ball. I never took him out the second half. Usually I take him out, but he was so alive tonight I didn't take him out at all.
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Andrei was terrific for us tonight. He had his hands full with a couple smaller players, but he came through with seven blocked shots and made plays when we needed him to.