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
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.
main played
We played a lot harder. That's the main thing. That was interesting that we did that.
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.
couple plays win
Fortunately Andrei made a couple of big plays to win the ballgame.
ball basket free great guys passing ready team throw throws
Give (the Heat) credit, because they're a great team. They've got guys who can get to the basket and get to the free throw line. We don't have a guy who can get 20 free throws a night. So how are we going to play? We've got to do it from a team concept, by passing the ball and being ready to pass it.
guy happy looking mean trade wants
He was the one that really wanted to be traded. I mean I wasn't looking to trade the guy. But if a guy wants to get out and is probably not happy here, what else can you do?
duress himself learns sure
Those are things he can learn, but he has to put himself under a little more duress to make sure he learns it, ... Because I think he can do some things out there. He can run, he can jump.
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.
block job offensive poor trying
We did a very poor job in trying to block them off of the boards. They just killed us on the offensive boards.
alive bit keeps win
This win keeps us alive a little bit longer. Without this win, we would be dead.
half mistake pull second seemed talked
We've talked about it and talked about it and this second half they seemed to have the idea that if we make a mistake then we pull for each other and we play through it.
bags guys looked
Our guys looked like they had their bags packed at halftime.