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
happy
They're happy just being close. But it doesn't make me very happy.
casual learn playing
They're playing harder, but they have to learn to play even harder. This is not a casual business. When we play casual you see how ineffective we are.
destroy fight good sort tremendous
They're a good team. They sort of destroy your will to want to play. But we did fight back and I think that's tremendous on our part.
fourth league third
As long as Greg was here, we were always third or fourth in the league in (defensive field-goal percentage),
basketball
You see what championship basketball is all about.
beat beginning dominated four seem
They dominated us right from the beginning of the ballgame. We didn't really seem to have any life. ... They beat us all four quarters.
attitude bit crop energy opportunity upset
They didn't look like they had any energy and I think they were upset with me more than anything else. They had a little bit of an attitude about what's going on out there. It's kind of disappointing that those things would crop up now when you have an opportunity to get into the playoffs.
finally gave played quarter third turned
They finally played a little in the third quarter but we weren't able to come all the way back. We turned it over 23 times and gave them 28 points.
ball care experience guys messed mistake pin point revealing sort stop talk took top turn
They executed, they got on top of the basket. If you made a mistake defensively, they took care of it. They made us turn the ball over if we messed up our spacing on the floor. They used us on the pin down. Guys couldn't get up and get over screens. It was kind of a revealing experience for our players. You see those things and talk about those things, but we aren't able to get to that point where we can stop that sort of thing.
bigger guard guys
There may be times when we use him like that. He can guard some guys bigger than him.
box defended floor happened looking ran salt seeing
This is the same thing that happened in Salt Lake. They ran us off the floor and they defended us. As I'm looking at the box score, I'm seeing they pretty much manhandled us.
ball hands rebounds
This is the way we've always wanted to play. We got our hands on the ball and got rebounds tonight.
bit learn level
They probably did get a little bit intimidated, but they have to learn how to play at this level if they are going to be in this league.
effort stop
They pretty much manhandled us all the way around. We didn't have much of any kind of effort to stop them.