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
alive
We're still alive and that's the important thing.
bit certain everybody perform ways worried
What I'm worried about is what's out here on the floor. That's all I'm worried about. Everybody has to perform out here on the floor, and we have to perform it a certain way. Not that my way is right. There are a lot of different ways to play basketball. But we have to have a little bit of order. Otherwise, I've got a cesspool.
bit
We started to play a little bit at the end of the ballgame, but it was a little bit too late.
played purpose tonight
I thought we played with a lot more purpose tonight than we did the other night.
basket good
Those were some pretty good shots. But they didn't go in the basket ? and you have to be able to make them in this league.
ball guys hard last lost night played waxed
We were in the ball game. I thought our guys played pretty hard. We got waxed pretty hard last night (a 110-85 lost to Cleveland), but I thought our guys played pretty hard tonight, but that's the way it goes.
deal great tired
We didn't show a great deal of toughness. We were tired out there and we have to get into better shape.
seem
We didn't really seem to have any life.
main played
We played a lot harder. That's the main thing. That was interesting that we did that.
ball came game gave needed pressure turned win
We gave them everything they needed to get their game going and win the ballgame. They came up and put the pressure on us, and we turned the ball over a little bit, and then we got real casual. There was no execution.
looked
We didn't have much for them. It looked like we didn't belong.
basketball beat effort good half horrendous settle
We didn't have a good effort in the first half and had a really horrendous finish. I didn't know if we were going to settle down and try to play basketball or try to beat them 1-on-1.
help league seen understand veteran
(Palacio is) a veteran player, he's been around the league and he's seen some things. He's a very knowledgeable guy. Those things help you understand what's going on in the game.
days difference five four fourth games good played tired
They played back-to-back games and four games in five days and, for them, there wasn't going to be any difference between the fourth game (and the first). You just don't get tired if you're in good shape.