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
great team
This team is going to be a great, great team.
ball game
This was a winnable ball game on our part.
fought guys looked points running second seven six within
We kind of fought back a little in the second half. We got to within six or seven points and then they just annihilated us. Our big guys just looked like they were running in mud.
along defend four life line people played somewhere three
We only had about three or four possessions where we got up and played people. That was the only life we had. Somewhere along the line we need to defend people so we can compete.
altogether defend job terrible trying
We did a terrible job altogether trying to defend them.
ball gave looked running
We had 23 turnovers and gave away 28 points. They went after the ball hard, and we looked like we were running in mud.
happen tough trying win wonder
It's tough on Jeff. He's trying to win and doing everything he can. You wonder what's going to happen to you next.
against came excellent needed offense played ran system
Deron had an excellent game. He is getting to know our system better. He came out and played against the Hornets and ran our offense like we needed him too.
beginning hoped
That's the Boozer we hoped for at the beginning of the year.
alive keeps stay
That keeps us alive. Otherwise, we're probably dead. It's pretty simple. It's just like anybody. We'd like to stay alive a little longer.
bear darn kick watching
The Bear was pretty darn funny. I got a kick out of watching him.
eight orlando won
It's like the end of the world that we didn't (beat Orlando on Monday) by 20. But we've won (five out of eight games) and that hasn't been discussed.
against ball basketball crazy game knows playing streak supposed team throwing turning
It went crazy -- throwing the ball away, turning the basketball over, not playing like we're supposed to play. You can't play a streak game like that against a team that knows how to play the pass.
caused confused exhibition form knowing looked offense season
They did everything they wanted to do tonight. They looked in mid-season form and we looked like we were in exhibition season not knowing what we're doing. Too many times we were confused as to what we wanted to do on offense and that caused us a lot of problems.